--- 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 Song of David,” *Times and Seasons* 5, no. 14 (August 1, 1844): 601." printed_title: A SONG 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 Song of David 1 "The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand until I place thine enemies at thy footstool. 2 The rod of thy strength the Lord will send from Zion: subdue thou in the midst of thy enemies. 3 A plenty of thy people for the day; thine army in the majesty of holiness from the recess of the morning, for thyself, the dew hath begotten thee. 4 The Lord hath sworn and will not lament, thou art a priest for eternity over the order of the king of righteousness. 5 My Lord, upon thy right crusheth the kingdoms in the day of his wrath. 6 He will judge among the nations full of dead bodies, to crush the head over the whole earth. 7 From the stream in the way, he will drink, therefore he will exalt the head. + We hope our readers will compare these three equally true translations, leaving out the italic, and judge for themselves which is most consistent according to revelation and reason. COMMUNICATIONS.