Psalms 89
1 The understanding of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing the mercies of the Lord in eternity. I will announce your truth with my mouth, from generation to generation.
A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.
2 For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. Your truth will be prepared there.
For I have said, “Loving devotion is built up forever; in the heavens You establish Your faithfulness.”
3 I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant:
You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:
4 I will prepare your offspring, even in eternity. And I will build up your throne, from generation to generation.
‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’”
5 The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, and also your truth, in the Church of the saints.
The heavens praise Your wonders, O LORD— Your faithfulness as well— in the assembly of the holy ones.
6 For who among the clouds is equal to the Lord? Who among the sons of God is like God?
For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?
7 God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him.
In the council of the holy ones, God is greatly feared, and awesome above all who surround Him.
8 O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you.
O LORD God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty LORD, Your faithfulness surrounds You.
9 You rule over the power of the sea, and you even mitigate the movement of its waves.
You rule the raging sea; when its waves mount up, You still them.
10 You have humbled the arrogant one, like one who has been wounded. You have scattered your enemies with the arm of your strength.
You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
11 Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness.
The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded.
12 You created the north and the sea. Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name.
North and south You created; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.
13 Your arm acts with power. Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted.
Mighty is Your arm; strong is Your hand. Your right hand is exalted.
14 Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You.
15 Blessed is the people that knows jubilation. They will walk in the light of your countenance, O Lord,
Blessed are those who know the joyful sound, who walk, O LORD, in the light of Your presence.
16 and they will exult in your name all day long, and they will be exalted in your justice.
They rejoice in Your name all day long, and in Your righteousness they exult.
17 For you are the glory of their virtue, and in your goodness, our horn will be exalted.
For You are the glory of their strength, and by Your favor our horn is exalted.
18 For our assumption is of the Lord, and it is of our king, the holy one of Israel.
Surely our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
19 Then you spoke in a vision to your holy ones, and you said: I have stationed help with the powerful one, and I have exalted the elect one from my people.
You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
20 I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil.
I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.
21 For my hand will assist him, and my arm will fortify him.
My hand will sustain him; surely My arm will strengthen him.
22 The enemy will have no advantage over him, nor will the son of iniquity be positioned to harm him.
No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.
23 And I will cut down his enemies before his face. And those who hate him, I will turn to flight.
I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
24 And my truth and my mercy will be with him. And his horn will be exalted in my name.
My faithfulness and loving devotion will be with him, and through My name his horn will be exalted.
25 And I will place his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.
I will set his hand over the sea, and his right hand upon the rivers.
26 He will invoke me: “You are my father, my God, and the support of my salvation.”
He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
27 And I will make him the first-born, preeminent before the kings of the earth.
I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
28 I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, and my covenant for him faithfully.
I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
29 And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, and his throne like the days of heaven.
I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.
30 But if his sons abandon my law, and if they do not walk in my judgments,
If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,
31 if they profane my justices, and if they do not keep my commandments:
if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,
32 I will visit their iniquities with a rod, and their sins with a beating.
I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.
33 But I will not scatter my mercy from him, and I will not do harm to my truth.
But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.
34 And I will not profane my covenant, and I will not make void that which proceeds from my lips.
I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
35 I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David,
Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness— I will not lie to David—
36 his offspring will remain for eternity. And his throne will be like the sun in my sight,
his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
37 and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven.
like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.”
38 Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, you have pushed away, my Christ.
Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.
39 You have overthrown the covenant of your servant. You have profaned his sanctuary on earth.
You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
40 You have destroyed all his fences. You have made his territory dreadful.
You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.
41 All who pass by the way have plundered him. He has become a disgrace to his neighbors.
All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
42 You have exalted the right hand of those who oppress him. You have brought joy to all his enemies.
You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.
43 You have diverted the help of his sword, and you have not assisted him in battle.
You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.
44 You have torn him away from cleansing, and you have smashed his throne down to the ground.
You have ended his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.
45 You have reduced the days of his time. You have flooded him with confusion.
You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame.
46 How long, O Lord? Will you turn away unto the end? Will your wrath flare up like a fire?
How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
47 Remember what my substance is. For could you really have appointed all the sons of men in vain?
Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
48 Who is the man that will live, and yet not see death? Who will rescue his own soul from the hand of the underworld? (Sheol h7585)
What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? (Sheol h7585)
49 O Lord, where are your mercies of antiquity, just as you swore to David in your truth?
Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?
50 Be mindful, O Lord, of the disgrace of your servants (which I have sustained in my sinews) among many nations.
Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—
51 With these, your enemies have reproached you, O Lord; with these, they have reproached the commutation of your Christ.
how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!
52 Blessed is the Lord for all eternity. Amen. Amen.
Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and amen.
