Psalms 89
1 Maschil. Of Ethan the Ezrahite. My song will be of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make his faith clear to all generations.
I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations.
2 For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens.
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: your faithfulness shall you establish in the very heavens.
3 I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant;
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant,
4 I will make your seed go on for ever, your kingdom will be strong through all generations. (Selah)
Your seed will I establish for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. (Selah)
5 In heaven let them give praise for your wonders, O Lord; and your unchanging faith among the saints.
And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O LORD: your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
6 For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?
For who in the heaven can be compared to the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the LORD?
7 God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him.
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
8 O Lord God of armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you.
O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like to you? or to your faithfulness round about you?
9 You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.
You rule the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, you still them.
10 Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters.
You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; you have scattered your enemies with your strong arm.
11 Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.
The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours: as for the world and the fullness thereof, you have founded them.
12 You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name.
The north and the south you have created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in your name.
13 Yours is an arm of power; strong is your hand and high your right hand.
You have a mighty arm: strong is your hand, and high is your right hand.
14 The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.
Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face.
15 Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.
Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance.
16 In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.
In your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted.
17 For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up.
For you are the glory of their strength: and in your favor our horn shall be exalted.
18 For our breastplate is the Lord; and our king is the Holy One of Israel's.
For the LORD is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
19 Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people.
Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help on one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
20 I have made discovery of David my servant; I have put my holy oil on his head.
I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
21 My hand will be his support; my arm will give him strength.
With whom my hand shall be established: my arm also shall strengthen him.
22 The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil.
The enemy shall not exact on him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
23 I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.
And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
24 But my faith and my mercy will be with him; and in my name will his horn be lifted up.
But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
25 I will put his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
26 He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.
He shall cry to me, You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
27 And I will make him the first of my sons, most high over the kings of the earth.
Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
28 I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed.
My mercy will I keep for him for ever more, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
29 His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens.
His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
30 If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
31 If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
32 Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.
Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
33 But I will not take away my mercy from him, and will not be false to my faith.
Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
34 I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35 I have made an oath once by my holy name, that I will not be false to David.
Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David.
36 His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
37 It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. (Selah)
It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. (Selah)
38 But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection.
But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been wroth with your anointed.
39 You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.
You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
40 All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.
You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strong holds to ruin.
41 All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.
All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbors.
42 You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him.
You have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice.
43 His sword is turned back; you have not been his support in the fight.
You have also turned the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.
44 You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth.
You have made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
45 You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. (Selah)
The days of his youth have you shortened: you have covered him with shame. (Selah)
46 How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?
How long, LORD? will you hide yourself for ever? shall your wrath burn like fire?
47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?
48 What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah) (Sheol h7585)
What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? (Selah) (Sheol h7585)
49 Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?
Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth?
50 Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart;
Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
51 The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.
With which your enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.
52 Let the Lord be praised for ever. So be it, So be it.
Blessed be the LORD for ever more. Amen, and Amen.
