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 psalm 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 know that thy mercy endureth for ever; Thou hast established thy truth like the 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 to David, my servant:
4 I will prepare your offspring, even in eternity. And I will build up your throne, from generation to generation.
Thy family I will establish for ever, And build up thy throne to all generations.” (Pause)
5 The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, and also your truth, in the Church of the saints.
The heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD! And the assembly of the holy ones thy truth!
6 For who among the clouds is equal to the Lord? Who among the sons of God is like God?
Who in the heavens can be compared to Jehovah? Who is like Jehovah among the sons of God?
7 God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him.
A God greatly to be feared in the assembly of the holy ones, And to be had in reverence above all who are around him?
8 O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you.
O Jehovah, God of hosts! Who is mighty like thee, O Jehovah? And thy faithfulness is 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 rise, 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 didst break Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; Thou didst scatter thine enemies with thy mighty arm.
11 Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness.
The heavens are thine; thine also is the earth; The world and all that is therein, thou didst found them.
12 You created the north and the sea. Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name.
The North and the South were created by thee; Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.
13 Your arm acts with power. Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted.
Thine is a mighty arm; Strong is thy hand, and high thy right hand.
14 Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face.
Justice and equity are the foundation of thy throne; Mercy and truth go before thy face.
15 Blessed is the people that knows jubilation. They will walk in the light of your countenance, O Lord,
Happy the people that know the trumpet's sound! They 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 they daily rejoice, And in thy righteousness they glory!
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; Yea, through thy favor our horn exalteth itself!
18 For our assumption is of the Lord, and it is of our king, the holy one of Israel.
For from Jehovah is our shield, And from 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.
Once thou spakest in a vision to thy holy one, And saidst, —”I have laid help on one that is mighty; 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 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 him shall my hand be established, And my arm 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 have power over him, Nor shall the unrighteous man oppress him.
23 And I will cut down his enemies before his face. And those who hate him, I will turn to flight.
For I will beat down his foes before him, And overthrow them that 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 mercy shall be with him, And through 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 extend his hand to the sea, And his right hand to the rivers.
26 He will invoke me: “You are my father, my God, and the support of my salvation.”
He shall say to 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.
I will also make him my first-born, Highest of the kings of the earth.
28 I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, and my covenant for him faithfully.
My mercy I will continue to him for ever; My covenant with him shall be steadfast.
29 And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, and his throne like the days of heaven.
I will make his family to endure for ever; And his throne shall be as lasting as the heavens.
30 But if his sons abandon my law, and if they do not walk in my judgments,
Should his children forsake my law, And walk not in my statutes,
31 if they profane my justices, and if they do not keep my commandments:
Should they break my commandments, And observe not my precepts,
32 I will visit their iniquities with a rod, and their sins with a beating.
I will punish their transgressions with a 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.
But my kindness will I not withdraw 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.
I will not break my covenant, Nor alter what hath gone from my lips.
35 I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David,
Once have I sworn in my holiness, That I will not be false unto David.
36 his offspring will remain for eternity. And his throne will be like the sun in my sight,
His family 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 like the moon; Like the faithful witness in the sky.”
38 Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, you have pushed away, my Christ.
But now thou forsakest and abhorrest, And art angry 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 with thy servant; Thou hast cast his crown 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 strongholds to ruin.
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 is 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.
Thou hast lifted up the right hand of his enemies; Thou hast made all his adversaries to rejoice.
43 You have diverted the help of his sword, and you have not assisted him in battle.
Yea, thou hast turned the edge of his sword, And made him unable to stand in battle.
44 You have torn him away from cleansing, and you have smashed his throne down to the ground.
Thou hast brought his glory to an end, And hast cast down his throne to the ground.
45 You have reduced the days of his time. You have flooded him with confusion.
Thou hast shortened the days of his youth; Thou hast 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! wilt thou hide thyself for ever? How long shall thine anger 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 is my life, To what frailty thou hast 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 liveth, and seeth not death? Who can deliver himself from the underworld? (Sheol h7585)
49 O Lord, where are your mercies of antiquity, just as you swore to David in your truth?
Where, Lord, is thy former loving-kindness Which thou didst swear to 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, O Lord! the reproach of thy servants, How I bear in my bosom the taunts of all the many nations,
51 With these, your enemies have reproached you, O Lord; with these, they have reproached the commutation of your Christ.
With which thine enemies have reproached me, O LORD! With which they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed!
52 Blessed is the Lord for all eternity. Amen. Amen.
[Praised be Jehovah for ever! Amen, yea, amen!]
