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.
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.
2 For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. Your truth will be prepared there.
For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens.
3 I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant:
I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath 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 make your seed go on for ever, your kingdom will be strong through all generations. (Selah)
5 The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, and also your truth, in the Church of the saints.
In heaven let them give praise for your wonders, O Lord; and your unchanging faith among the saints.
6 For who among the clouds is equal to the Lord? Who among the sons of God is like God?
For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?
7 God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him.
God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about 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 armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you.
9 You rule over the power of the sea, and you even mitigate the movement of its waves.
You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.
10 You have humbled the arrogant one, like one who has been wounded. You have scattered your enemies with the arm of your strength.
Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters.
11 Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness.
Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.
12 You created the north and the sea. Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name.
You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name.
13 Your arm acts with power. Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted.
Yours is an arm of power; strong is your hand and high your right hand.
14 Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face.
The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.
15 Blessed is the people that knows jubilation. They will walk in the light of your countenance, O Lord,
Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.
16 and they will exult in your name all day long, and they will be exalted in your justice.
In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.
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; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up.
18 For our assumption is of the Lord, and it is of our king, the holy one of Israel.
For our breastplate is the Lord; and our king is the Holy One of Israel's.
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.
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.
20 I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil.
I have made discovery of David my servant; I have put my holy oil on his head.
21 For my hand will assist him, and my arm will fortify him.
My hand will be his support; my arm will give him strength.
22 The enemy will have no advantage over him, nor will the son of iniquity be positioned to harm him.
The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil.
23 And I will cut down his enemies before his face. And those who hate him, I will turn to flight.
I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.
24 And my truth and my mercy will be with him. And his horn will be exalted in my name.
But my faith and my mercy will be with him; and in my name will his horn be lifted up.
25 And I will place his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.
I will put his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
26 He will invoke me: “You are my father, my God, and the support of my salvation.”
He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.
27 And I will make him the first-born, preeminent before the kings of the earth.
And I will make him the first of my sons, most high over the kings of the earth.
28 I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, and my covenant for him faithfully.
I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed.
29 And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, and his throne like the days of heaven.
His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens.
30 But if his sons abandon my law, and if they do not walk in my judgments,
If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;
31 if they profane my justices, and if they do not keep my commandments:
If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;
32 I will visit their iniquities with a rod, and their sins with a beating.
Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.
33 But I will not scatter my mercy from him, and I will not do harm to my truth.
But I will not take away my mercy from him, and will not be false to my faith.
34 And I will not profane my covenant, and I will not make void that which proceeds from my lips.
I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.
35 I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David,
I have made an oath once by my holy name, that I will not be false to David.
36 his offspring will remain for eternity. And his throne will be like the sun in my sight,
His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.
37 and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven.
It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. (Selah)
38 Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, you have pushed away, my Christ.
But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection.
39 You have overthrown the covenant of your servant. You have profaned his sanctuary on earth.
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.
40 You have destroyed all his fences. You have made his territory dreadful.
All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.
41 All who pass by the way have plundered him. He has become a disgrace to his neighbors.
All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.
42 You have exalted the right hand of those who oppress him. You have brought joy to all his enemies.
You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him.
43 You have diverted the help of his sword, and you have not assisted him in battle.
His sword is turned back; you have not been his support in the fight.
44 You have torn him away from cleansing, and you have smashed his throne down to the ground.
You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth.
45 You have reduced the days of his time. You have flooded him with confusion.
You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. (Selah)
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 Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?
47 Remember what my substance is. For could you really have appointed all the sons of men in vain?
See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
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 now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah) (Sheol h7585)
49 O Lord, where are your mercies of antiquity, just as you swore to David in your truth?
Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?
50 Be mindful, O Lord, of the disgrace of your servants (which I have sustained in my sinews) among many nations.
Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart;
51 With these, your enemies have reproached you, O Lord; with these, they have reproached the commutation of your Christ.
The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.
52 Blessed is the Lord for all eternity. Amen. Amen.
Let the Lord be praised for ever. So be it, So be it.
