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Psalm 45

¹My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
²Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
³Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
⁴And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
⁵Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
⁶Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
⁷Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
⁸All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
⁹Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
¹⁰Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;
¹¹So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
¹²And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
¹³The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
¹⁴She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
¹⁵With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
¹⁶Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
¹⁷I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

18And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds over them.
²And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.
³But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.
⁴And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.
⁵And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.
⁶So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
⁷Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.
⁸For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
⁹And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
¹⁰And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
¹¹And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle.
¹²And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
¹³Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.
¹⁴Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
¹⁵And ten young men that bare Joab’s armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
¹⁶And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.
¹⁷And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.

²Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.
³I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
⁴Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
⁵For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
⁶Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
⁷And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
⁸For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
⁹Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.
¹⁰For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
¹¹For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
¹²Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
¹³Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
¹⁴For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
¹⁵And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
¹⁶I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.