Psalm 89

¹ Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

² For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.

³ I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant;

⁴ Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah

⁵ And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD; thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

⁶ For who in the skies can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty is like unto the LORD,

⁷ A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, and to be feared above all them that are round about him?

⁸ O LORD God of hosts, who is a mighty one, like unto thee, O JAH? and thy faithfulness is round about thee.

⁹ Thou rulest the pride of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

¹⁰ Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.

¹¹ The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

¹² The north and the south, thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.

¹³ Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

¹⁴ Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of thy throne: mercy and truth go before thy face.

¹⁵ Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

¹⁶ In thy name do they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness are they exalted.

¹⁷ For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

¹⁸ For our shield belongeth unto the LORD; and our king to the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹ Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

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

²¹ With whom my hand shall be established; mine arm also shall strengthen him.

²² The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

²³ And I will beat down his adversaries before him, and smite them that hate him.

²⁴ But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him; and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

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

²⁶ He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

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

²⁸ My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

²⁹ His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

³⁰ If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

³¹ If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

³² Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

³³ But my mercy will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

³⁴ My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

³⁵ Once have I sworn by my holiness; I will not lie unto David;

³⁶ His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

³⁷ It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as the faithful witness in the sky. Selah

³⁸ But thou hast cast off and rejected, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

³⁹ Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown even to the ground.

⁴⁰ Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to rain.

⁴¹ All that pass by the way spoil him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

⁴² Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

⁴³ Yea, thou turnest back the edge his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

⁴⁴ Thou hast made his brightness to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

⁴⁵ The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah

⁴⁶ How long, O LORD, wilt thou hid thyself for ever? how long shall thy wrath burn like fire?

⁴⁷ O remember how short my time is: for what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

⁴⁸ What man is he that shall live and not see death, that shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

⁴⁹ Lord, where are thy former mercies, which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?

⁵⁰ Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty peoples:

⁵¹ Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

⁵² Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.