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. 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 you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. Your truth will be prepared there.
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
3 I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant:
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
4 I will prepare your offspring, even in eternity. And I will build up your throne, from generation to generation.
Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. (Selah)
5 The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, and also your truth, in the Church of the saints.
And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
6 For who among the clouds is equal to the Lord? Who among the sons of God is like God?
For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? [who] among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
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 in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all [them that 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 hosts, who [is] a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
9 You rule over the power of the sea, and you even mitigate the movement of its waves.
Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest 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.
Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
11 Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness.
The heavens [are] thine, the earth also [is] thine: [as for] the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
12 You created the north and the sea. Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name.
The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
13 Your arm acts with power. Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted.
Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, [and] high is thy right hand.
14 Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face.
Justice and judgment [are] the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
15 Blessed is the people that knows jubilation. They will walk in the light of your countenance, O Lord,
Blessed [is] the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
16 and they will exult in your name all day long, and they will be exalted in your justice.
In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
17 For you are the glory of their virtue, and in your goodness, our horn will be exalted.
For thou [art] the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
18 For our assumption is of the Lord, and it is of our king, the holy one of Israel.
For the LORD [is] our defence; and the Holy One of Israel [is] our king.
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 thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon [one that is] mighty; I have exalted [one] chosen out of the people.
20 I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil.
I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
21 For my hand will assist him, and my arm will fortify him.
With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
22 The enemy will have no advantage over him, nor will the son of iniquity be positioned to harm him.
The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
23 And I will cut down his enemies before his face. And those who hate him, I will turn to flight.
And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
24 And my truth and my mercy will be with him. And his horn will be exalted in my name.
But my faithfulness and my mercy [shall be] with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
25 And I will place his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.
I will set his hand also 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 shall cry unto me, Thou [art] 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.
Also I will make him [my] firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
28 I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, and my covenant for him faithfully.
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
29 And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, and his throne like the days of heaven.
His seed also will I make [to endure] for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
30 But if his sons abandon my law, and if they do not walk in my judgments,
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
31 if they profane my justices, and if they do not keep my commandments:
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
32 I will visit their iniquities with a rod, and their sins with a beating.
Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
33 But I will not scatter my mercy from him, and I will not do harm to my truth.
Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
34 And I will not profane my covenant, and I will not make void that which proceeds from my lips.
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35 I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David,
Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
36 his offspring will remain for eternity. And his throne will be like the sun in my sight,
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
37 and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven.
It shall be established for ever as the moon, and [as] a faithful witness in heaven. (Selah)
38 Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, you have pushed away, my Christ.
But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
39 You have overthrown the covenant of your servant. You have profaned his sanctuary on earth.
Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground.
40 You have destroyed all his fences. You have made his territory dreadful.
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
41 All who pass by the way have plundered him. He has become a disgrace to his neighbors.
All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
42 You have exalted the right hand of those who oppress him. You have brought joy to all his enemies.
Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
43 You have diverted the help of his sword, and you have not assisted him in battle.
Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
44 You have torn him away from cleansing, and you have smashed his throne down to the ground.
Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
45 You have reduced the days of his time. You have flooded him with confusion.
The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him 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, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
47 Remember what my substance is. For could you really have appointed all the sons of men in vain?
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
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 [is he that] liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? (Selah) (Sheol h7585)
49 O Lord, where are your mercies of antiquity, just as you swore to David in your truth?
Lord, where [are] thy former lovingkindnesses, [which] thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
50 Be mindful, O Lord, of the disgrace of your servants (which I have sustained in my sinews) among many nations.
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; [how] I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty people;
51 With these, your enemies have reproached you, O Lord; with these, they have reproached the commutation of your Christ.
Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
52 Blessed is the Lord for all eternity. Amen. Amen.
Blessed [be] the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
