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.

AN INSTRUCTION OF ETHAN THE EZRAHITE. Of the kind acts of YHWH, I sing for all time, From generation to generation I make known Your faithfulness with my mouth,

2 For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. Your truth will be prepared there.

For I said, “Kindness is built for all time, The heavens! You establish Your faithfulness in them.”

3 I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant:

I have made a covenant for My chosen, I have sworn to My servant David:

4 I will prepare your offspring, even in eternity. And I will build up your throne, from generation to generation.

“Even for all time I establish your seed, And have built your throne to generation and generation.” (Selah)

5 The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, and also your truth, in the Church of the saints.

And the heavens confess Your wonders, O YHWH, Your faithfulness [is] also in an assembly of 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 sky, compares himself to YHWH? [Who] is like to YHWH among sons of the mighty?

7 God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him.

God is very terrible, In the secret counsel of His holy ones, And fearful over all surrounding Him.

8 O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you.

O YHWH, God of Hosts, Who [is] like You—a strong YAH? And Your faithfulness [is] around You.

9 You rule over the power of the sea, and you even mitigate the movement of its waves.

You [are] ruler over the pride of the sea, In the lifting up of its billows You restrain 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 have bruised Rahab, as one wounded. You have scattered Your enemies with the arm of Your strength.

11 Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness.

The heavens [are] Yours, The earth [is] also Yours, The habitable world and its fullness, You have founded them.

12 You created the north and the sea. Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name.

North and south You have appointed them, Tabor and Hermon sing in Your Name.

13 Your arm acts with power. Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted.

You have an arm with might, Strong is Your hand—high Your right hand.

14 Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face.

Righteousness and judgment [Are] the fixed place of Your throne, Kindness and truth go before Your face.

15 Blessed is the people that knows jubilation. They will walk in the light of your countenance, O Lord,

O the blessedness of the people knowing the shout, O YHWH, they habitually walk in the light of Your face.

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 the day, And they are exalted in Your righteousness,

17 For you are the glory of their virtue, and in your goodness, our horn will be exalted.

For You [are] the beauty of their strength, And in Your good will is our horn exalted,

18 For our assumption is of the Lord, and it is of our king, the holy one of Israel.

For our shield [is] of YHWH, 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.

Then You have spoken in vision, To Your saint, indeed, You say, I have placed help on a mighty one, Exalted a chosen one out of 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 holy oil I have anointed him.

21 For my hand will assist him, and my arm will fortify him.

With whom My hand is established, My arm also strengthens him.

22 The enemy will have no advantage over him, nor will the son of iniquity be positioned to harm him.

An enemy does not exact on him, And a son of perverseness does not 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 have beaten down his adversaries before him, And I plague those hating him,

24 And my truth and my mercy will be with him. And his horn will be exalted in my name.

And My faithfulness and kindness [are] with him, And in My Name is his horn exalted.

25 And I will place his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.

And I have set his hand on the sea, And his right hand on the rivers.

26 He will invoke me: “You are my father, my God, and the support of my salvation.”

He proclaims 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.

I also appoint him firstborn, Highest of the kings of the earth.

28 I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, and my covenant for him faithfully.

For all time I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant [is] steadfast with him.

29 And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, and his throne like the days of heaven.

And I have set his seed forever, And his throne as the days of the heavens.

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 defile My statutes, And do not keep My commands,

32 I will visit their iniquities with a rod, and their sins with a beating.

I have looked after their transgression with a rod, And their iniquity with strokes,

33 But I will not scatter my mercy from him, and I will not do harm to my truth.

And I do not break My kindness from him, Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness.

34 And I will not profane my covenant, and I will not make void that which proceeds from my lips.

I do not profane My covenant, And I do not change that which is going forth from My lips.

35 I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David,

Once I have sworn by My holiness, I do not lie to David,

36 his offspring will remain for eternity. And his throne will be like the sun in my sight,

His seed is for all time, And his throne [is] as the sun before Me,

37 and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven.

It is established as the moon for all time, And the witness in the sky is steadfast. (Selah)

38 Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, you have pushed away, my Christ.

And You, You have cast off, and reject, You have shown Yourself angry with Your anointed,

39 You have overthrown the covenant of your servant. You have profaned his sanctuary on earth.

Have rejected the covenant of Your servant, You have defiled his crown to the earth,

40 You have destroyed all his fences. You have made his territory dreadful.

You have broken down all his hedges, You have made his fortifications a ruin.

41 All who pass by the way have plundered him. He has become a disgrace to his neighbors.

Everyone passing by the way has spoiled him, He has been 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 adversaries, You have caused all his enemies to rejoice.

43 You have diverted the help of his sword, and you have not assisted him in battle.

Also—You turn back the sharpness of his sword, And have not established him in battle,

44 You have torn him away from cleansing, and you have smashed his throne down to the ground.

Have caused [him] to cease from his brightness, And have cast down his throne to the earth.

45 You have reduced the days of his time. You have flooded him with confusion.

You have shortened the days of his youth, Have covered him over [with] shame. (Selah)

46 How long, O Lord? Will you turn away unto the end? Will your wrath flare up like a fire?

Until when, O YHWH, are You hidden? Does Your fury burn as fire forever?

47 Remember what my substance is. For could you really have appointed all the sons of men in vain?

Remember how [short] my lifetime [is]. Why have You created in vain All the sons of 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)

Who [is] the man that lives, and does not see death? He delivers his soul from the hand of Sheol. (Selah) (Sheol h7585)

49 O Lord, where are your mercies of antiquity, just as you swore to David in your truth?

Where [are] Your former kindnesses, O Lord, [Which] You have sworn to David in Your faithfulness?

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, I have borne in my bosom all the strivings of the peoples,

51 With these, your enemies have reproached you, O Lord; with these, they have reproached the commutation of your Christ.

With which Your enemies reproached, O YHWH, With which they have reproached The steps of Your anointed.

52 Blessed is the Lord for all eternity. Amen. Amen.

Blessed [is] YHWH for all time. Amen and amen!