Psalms 23
Domini est terra. Who are they that shall ascend to heaven: Christ’s triumphant ascension thither.
O n the first day of the week, a psalm for David. The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof:
the world, and all they that dwell therein.
2 For he hath founded it upon the seas;
and hath prepared it upon the rivers.
3 Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord:
or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 The innocent in hands, and clean of heart,
who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.
5 He shall receive a blessing from the Lord,
and mercy from God his Saviour.
6 This is the generation of them that seek him,
of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.
7 Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates:
and the King of Glory shall enter in.
8 Who is this King of Glory? the Lord who is strong and mighty:
the Lord mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates:
and the King of Glory shall enter in.
10 Who is this King of Glory? the Lord of hosts,
he is the King of Glory.