Psalms 89

1A Psalm of instruction for Aetham the Israelite. I will sing of your mercies, O Lord, for ever:I will declare your truth with my mouth to all generations.
2For you have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: your truth shall be establishedin the heavens.
3I made a covenant with my chosen ones, I sware to David my servant.
4I will establish your seed for ever, and build up your throne to all generations.Pause.
5The heavens shall declare your wonders, O Lord; and your truth in the assemblyof the saints.
6For who in the heavens shall be compared to the Lord? and who shall be likenedto the Lord among the sons of God?
7God is glorified in the council of the saints; great and terrible toward all thatare round about him.
8O Lord God of hosts, who is like to you? you are mighty, O Lord, and your truthis round about you.
9You rule the power of the sea; and you calm the tumult of its waves.
10You has brought down the proud as one that is slain; and with the arm of yourpower you has scattered your enemies.
11The heavens are your, and the earth is your: you have founded the world, and thefullness of it.
12You have created the north and the west: Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in yourname.
13Your is the mighty arm: let your hand be strengthened, let your right hand beexalted.
14Justice and judgment are the establishment of your throne: mercy and truth shallgo before your face.
15Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, inthe light of your countenance.
16And in your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shallthey be exalted.
17For you are the boast of their strength; and in your good pleasure shall our hornbe exalted,
18forour help is of the Lord; and of the Holy One of Israel, our king.
19Then you spoke in vision to your children, and said, I have laid help on a mightyone; I have exalted one chosen out of my people.
20I have found David my servant; I have anointed him bymy holy mercy.
21For my hand shall support him; and mine arm shall strengthen him.
22The enemy shall have no advantage against him; and the son of transgression shallnot hurt him again.
23And I will hew down his foes before him, and put to flight those that hate him.
24But my truth and my mercy shall be with him; and in my name shall his horn beexalted.
25And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
26He shall call upon me,saying, You are my Father, my God, and the helper of my salvation.
27And I will make himmy firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
28I will keep my mercy for him for ever, and my covenantshall be firm with him.
29And I will establish his seed for ever and ever, and his throne as the days ofheaven.
30If his children should forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
31if they should profane my ordinances, and not keep my commandments;
32I will visit their transgressions with a rod, and their sins with scourges.
33But my mercy I will not utterly remove from him, nor wrong my truth.
34Neither will I by any means profane my covenant; and I will not make void thethings that proceed out of my lips.
35Once have I sworn by my holiness, that I will not lie to David.
36His see shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me;
37and as the moonthat is established for ever, and as the faithful witness in heaven. Pause.
38But you have cast off and set at nothing, you has rejected your anointed.
39You have overthrown the covenant of your servant; you has profaned his sanctuary,casting it to the ground.
40You have broken down all his hedges; you have made his strong holds a terror.
41All that go by the way have spoiled him: he is become a reproach to his neighbors.
42You have exalted the right hand of his enemies; you have made all his enemiesto rejoice.
43You have turned back the help of his sword, and have not helped him in the battle.
44You have deprived him of glory: you have broken down his throne to the ground.
45You have shortened the days of his throne: you have poured shame upon him. Pause.
46How long, O Lord, will you turn away, for ever? shall your anger flame out asfire?
47Remember what my being is: for have you created all the sons of men in vain?
48What man is there who shall live, and not see death? shallany one deliver his soul from the hand of Hades? Pause.
49Where are your ancient mercies, O Lord, which you sware to David in your truth?
50Remember, O Lord, the reproach of your servants, which I have borne in my bosom,even the reproach of many nations;
51wherewith your enemies have reviled, O Lord: wherewith they have reviled the recompenseof your anointed.
52Blessed be the Lord for ever. So be it, so be it.