Psalms 89:1
I will sing of the loving kindness of Jehovah forever. With my mouth I will make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
Psalms 89:2
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever. Thy faithfulness thou will establish in the very heavens.
Psalms 89:3
I have made a covenant with my chosen. I have sworn to David my servant:
Psalms 89:4
Thy seed I will establish forever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
Psalms 89:5
And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah, thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the sanctified.
Psalms 89:6
For who in the clouds can be compared to Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like Jehovah,
Psalms 89:7
a God very awesome in the council of the holy ones, and to be feared above all those who are round about him?
Psalms 89:8
O Jehovah God of hosts, who is a mighty one like thee, O Jehovah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.
Psalms 89:9
Thou rule the pride of the sea. When the waves of it arise, thou still them.
Psalms 89:10
Thou have broken Rahab in pieces, as a wounded man. Thou have scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.
Psalms 89:11
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine, the world and the fullness of it; thou have founded them.
Psalms 89:12
The north and the south, thou have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.
Psalms 89:13
Thou have a mighty arm. Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
Psalms 89:14
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne. Loving kindness and truth go before thy face.
Psalms 89:15
Blessed is the people who know the joyful sound. They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.
Psalms 89:16
In thy name do they rejoice all the day, and in thy righteousness are they exalted.
Psalms 89:17
For thou are the glory of their strength, and in thy favor our horn shall be exalted.
Psalms 89:18
For our shield belongs to Jehovah, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 89:19
Then thou spoke in a vision to thy sanctified, and said, I have laid help upon a mighty man. I have exalted a chosen man out of the people.
Psalms 89:20
I have found David my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him,
Psalms 89:21
with whom my hand shall be established. My arm also shall strengthen him.
Psalms 89:22
The enemy shall not exact from him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
Psalms 89:23
And I will beat down his adversaries before him, and smite those who hate him,
Psalms 89:24
but my faithfulness and my loving kindness shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
Psalms 89:25
I will also set his hand on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.
Psalms 89:26
He shall cry to me, Thou are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
Psalms 89:27
I also will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
Psalms 89:28
I will keep my loving kindness for him for evermore. And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
Psalms 89:29
I will also make his seed to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
Psalms 89:30
If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in my ordinances,
Psalms 89:31
if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments,
Psalms 89:32
then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes,
Psalms 89:33
but my loving kindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
Psalms 89:34
I will not break my covenant, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Psalms 89:35
I have sworn once by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
Psalms 89:36
His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.
Psalms 89:37
It shall be established forever as the moon, and as the faithful witness in the sky. Selah.
Psalms 89:38
But thou have cast off and rejected. Thou have been angry with thine anointed.
Psalms 89:39
Thou have abhorred the covenant of thy servant. Thou have profaned his crown to the ground.
Psalms 89:40
Thou have broken down all his hedges. Thou have brought his strongholds to ruin.
Psalms 89:41
All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
Psalms 89:42
Thou have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. Thou have made all his enemies to rejoice.
Psalms 89:43
Yea, thou turn back the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.
Psalms 89:44
Thou have made his brightness to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
Psalms 89:45
The days of his youth thou have shortened. Thou have covered him with shame. Selah.
Psalms 89:46
How long, O Jehovah? Will thou hide thyself forever? Shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Psalms 89:47
O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
Psalms 89:48
What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
Psalms 89:49
Lord, where are thy former loving kindnesses, which thou swore to David in thy faithfulness?
Psalms 89:50
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants, how I bear in my bosom all the mighty peoples,
Psalms 89:51
with which thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, with which they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
Psalms 89:52
Blessed be Jehovah for evermore. Truly, and Truly.