Blessed be the LORD your God! He delighted in you and put you on the throne of Israel, because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel. He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”
He rescued me from my powerful enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.He brought me out to a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; he repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not turned from my God to wickedness.Indeed, I let all his ordinances guide me and have not disregarded his statutes.I was blameless before him and kept myself from my iniquity.So the LORD repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.With the faithful you prove yourself faithful, with the blameless you prove yourself blameless,with the pure you prove yourself pure, but with the crooked you prove yourself shrewd.