--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1844 to 1845. authors: - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints editors: - Ebenezer Robinson - Don Carlos Smith - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Taylor, John collections: - periodicals tags: - newspaper - times-and-seasons - nauvoo - nineteenth-century periodical: Times and Seasons volume: 5 number: 14 published: 1844-08-01 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“A Psalm of David,” *Times and Seasons* 5, no. 14 (August 1, 1844): 601." printed_title: A PSALM OF DAVID. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-08-01_5_14 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v5n14.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair) identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-08-01_5_14 start_page: 601 end_page: 601 curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1844 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-08-01_5_14 publication_year: 1844 --- # A Psalm of David 1 "The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool, 2 The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. 3 Thy people shall be, willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. 4 The Lord hath sworn and will not repent, thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. 5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. 6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with dead bodies; he shall wound the head over many countries. 7 He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore he shall lift up the head." The third translation made in the 19th century, is from the Hebrew of Michaelis, independent of sects or creeds, and is as follows:-