Psalms89

¹A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite . I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord, forever ; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations .

²For I said , Steadfast love will be built up forever ; in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness .

³You have said, I have made a covenant with my chosen one ; I have sworn to David my servant :

⁴I will establish your offspring forever , and build your throne for all generations . Selah

⁵Let the heavens praise your wonders , O Lord, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones !

⁶For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,

⁷a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones , and awesome above all who are around him?

⁸O Lord God of hosts , who is mighty as you are, O Lord, with your faithfulness all around you?

⁹You rule the raging of the sea ; when its waves rise , you still them.

¹⁰You crushed Rahab like a carcass ; you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm .

¹¹The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it , you have founded them.

¹²The north and the south , you have created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name .

¹³You have a mighty arm ; strong is your hand , high your right hand .

¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne ; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you .

¹⁵Blessed are the people who know the festal shout , who walk , O Lord, in the light of your face ,

¹⁶who exult in your name all the day and in your righteousness are exalted .

¹⁷For you are the glory of their strength ; by your favor our horn is exalted .

¹⁸For our shield belongs to the Lord, our king to the Holy One of Israel .

¹⁹Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one , and said : I have granted help to one who is mighty ; I have exalted one chosen from the people .

²⁰I have found David , my servant ; with my holy oil I have anointed him,

²¹so that my hand shall be established with him; my arm also shall strengthen him.

²²The enemy shall not outwit him; the wicked shall not humble him.

²³I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

²⁴My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted .

²⁵I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers .

²⁶He shall cry to me, You are my Father , my God , and the Rock of my salvation .

²⁷And I will make him the firstborn , the highest of the kings of the earth .

²⁸My steadfast love I will keep for him forever , and my covenant will stand firm for him.

²⁹I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens .

³⁰If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules ,

³¹if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments ,

³²then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes ,

³³but I will not remove from him my steadfast love or be false to my faithfulness .

³⁴I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips .

³⁵Once for all I have sworn by my holiness ; I will not lie to David .

³⁶His offspring shall endure forever , his throne as long as the sun before me.

³⁷Like the moon it shall be established forever , a faithful witness in the skies . Selah

³⁸But now you have cast off and rejected ; you are full of wrath against your anointed .

³⁹You have renounced the covenant with your servant ; you have defiled his crown in the dust .

⁴⁰You have breached all his walls ; you have laid his strongholds in ruins .

⁴¹All who pass by plunder him; he has the scorn of his neighbors .

⁴²You have exalted the right hand of his foes ; you have made all his enemies rejoice .

⁴³You have also turned back the edge of his sword , and you have not made him stand in battle .

⁴⁴You have made his splendor to cease and cast his throne to the ground .

⁴⁵You have cut short the days of his youth ; you have covered him with shame . Selah

⁴⁶How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever ? How long will your wrath burn like fire ?

⁴⁷Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man !

⁴⁸What man can live and never see death ? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol ? Selah

⁴⁹Lord , where is your steadfast love of old , which by your faithfulness you swore to David ?

⁵⁰Remember , O Lord , how your servants are mocked , and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations ,

⁵¹with which your enemies mock , O Lord, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed .

⁵²Blessed be the Lord forever ! Amen and Amen . Book Four