Psalms 89
1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations.
A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing evermore of the love of the Lord, proclaiming to all generations his faithfulness.
2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: your faithfulness shall you establish in the very heavens.
For your love you did promise to build up forever, your faithfulness firm as the heavens themselves.
3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant,
‘I have made with my chosen a covenant, and sworn to David my servant,
4 Your seed will I establish for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. (Selah)
to establish his seed forever, and to build up his throne to all ages.’ (Selah)
5 And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O LORD: your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
Then the holy assembly in heaven praised your marvellous faithfulness, Lord.
6 For who in the heaven can be compared to the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the LORD?
For who in the skies may compare with the Lord? Who is like the Lord among the gods?
7 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.
A God to be feared in the holy assembly, awful and great above all who are round him.
8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like to you? or to your faithfulness round about you?
O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty as you? Your strength and faithfulness, Lord, surround you.
9 You rule the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, you still them.
You are the Lord of the raging sea: when its waves surge, it is you who still them.
10 You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; you have scattered your enemies with your strong arm.
It was you who did pierce and crush Rahab in pieces, and scatter your foes by your mighty arm.
11 The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours: as for the world and the fullness thereof, you have founded them.
Yours are the heavens, yours also the earth, the world and its fulness, it’s you who did found them.
12 The north and the south you have created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in your name.
The north and the south, it’s you have created them; Tabor and Hermon shout praise to your name.
13 You have a mighty arm: strong is your hand, and high is your right hand.
You have an arm with the might of a hero; strong is your hand, high uplifted your right hand.
14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face.
Justice and right are the base of your throne, kindness and faithfulness ever attend you.
15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance.
Happy the people who know the glad shout, who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face.
16 In your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted.
They exult in your name all the day, and your righteousness they extol.
17 For you are the glory of their strength: and in your favor our horn shall be exalted.
For you are our strength and our pride. Your favour will lift us to honour.
18 For the LORD is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
For the holy Lord of Israel keeps our defender and king.
19 Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help on one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
In a vision of old you did speak in this way to the one whom you loved: ‘A crown I have set on the hero I chose to be over the people
20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
‘I found my servant David, and anointed with holy oil.
21 With whom my hand shall be established: my arm also shall strengthen him.
My hand will be with him forever, my arm will give him strength.
22 The enemy shall not exact on him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
‘No enemy will dare to assail him, nor the wicked to oppress him;
23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
but his foes I will shatter before him, I will strike down those who hate him.
24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
‘My loyal love shall attend him, and I will lift him to honour.
25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
I will set his hand on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.
26 He shall cry to me, You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
‘As for him, he will call me “My father, my God, and my rock of salvation.”
27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
And I will make him my firstborn, highest of kings on the earth.
28 My mercy will I keep for him for ever more, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
‘My love will I keep for him ever, my covenant with him shall stand fast.
29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
His line will I make everlasting, and his throne as the days of the heavens.
30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
‘If his children forsake my law, and walk not as I have ordained;
31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
if they profane my statutes, and do not keep my commandments;
32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
‘I will punish their sin with the rod, their iniquity with scourges.
33 Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
But my love will I not take from him, nor will I belie my faithfulness.
34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
‘I will not profane my covenant by changing the word that has passed my lips.
35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David.
Once have I solemnly sworn and I would not lie to David,
36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
‘that his line should endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me,
37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. (Selah)
firm as the moon which for ever and ever is fixed in the sky.’ (Selah)
38 But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been wroth with your anointed.
But you have cast off in contempt, and been furious with your anointed.
39 You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
You have spurned the covenant with your servant, and his sacred crown dashed to the ground.
40 You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strong holds to ruin.
You have broken down all his walls, and laid his bulwarks in ruins.
41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbors.
All who pass on their way despoil him, the scorn of his neighbours is he now.
42 You have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice.
You have given his foes the victory, and made all his enemies glad.
43 You have also turned the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.
You have turned back his sword from the foe, you did not lift him up in the battle.
44 You have made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
The sceptre you took from his hand, and his throne you did hurl to the ground.
45 The days of his youth have you shortened: you have covered him with shame. (Selah)
You have shortened the days of his youth, and covered him with shame. (Selah)
46 How long, LORD? will you hide yourself for ever? shall your wrath burn like fire?
How long, Lord will you hide you forever? How long are the fires of your wrath to burn?
47 Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?
Remember, Lord, the shortness of life how fleeting you made all people.
48 What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? (Selah) (Sheol h7585)
Who can live without seeing death? Who can rescue their life from the clutch of Sheol? (Selah) (Sheol h7585)
49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth?
Where, Lord, is your kindness of old, which you in your faithfulness swore to David?
50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, how I bear in my heart the scorn of all nations
51 With which your enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.
The scorn which your enemies hurl, O Lord, which they hurl at the footsteps of your anointed.
52 Blessed be the LORD for ever more. Amen, and Amen.
Blest be the Lord, for ever and ever. Amen and Amen.
