The Psalms

Psalm 89

Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

 ^89:1I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah for ever:

 With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

 ^89:2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever;

 Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.

  ^89:3I have made a covenant with my chosen,

 I have sworn unto David my servant:

 ^89:4Thy seed will I establish for ever,

 And build up thy throne to all generations.

Selah

 ^89:5And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah;

 Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

 ^89:6For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah?

 Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Jehovah,

 ^89:7A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones,

 And to be feared above all them that are round about him?

 ^89:8O Jehovah God of hosts,

 Who is a mighty one, like unto thee, O Jehovah?

 And thy faithfulness is round about thee.

 ^89:9Thou rulest the pride of the sea:

 When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

 ^89:10Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain;

 Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.

 ^89:11The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine:

 The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

 ^89:12The north and the south, thou hast created them:

 Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.

 ^89:13Thou hast a mighty arm;

 Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

 ^89:14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne:

 Lovingkindness and truth go before thy face.

 ^89:15Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound:

 They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.

 ^89:16In thy name do they rejoice all the day;

 And in thy righteousness are they exalted.

 ^89:17For thou art the glory of their strength;

 And in thy favor our horn shall be exalted.

 ^89:18For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah;

 And our king to the Holy One of Israel.

 ^89:19Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints,

 And saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty;

 I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

 ^89:20I have found David my servant;

 With my holy oil have I anointed him:

 ^89:21With whom my hand shall be established;

 Mine arm also shall strengthen him.

 ^89:22The enemy shall not exact from him,

 Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

 ^89:23And I will beat down his adversaries before him,

 And smite them that hate him.

 ^89:24But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be with him;

 And in my name shall his horn be exalted.

 ^89:25I will set his hand also on the sea,

 And his right hand on the rivers.

 ^89:26He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father,

 My God, and the rock of my salvation.

 ^89:27I also will make him my first-born,

 The highest of the kings of the earth.

 ^89:28My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore;

 And my covenant shall stand fast with him.

 ^89:29His seed also will I make to endure for ever,

 And his throne as the days of heaven.

 ^89:30If his children forsake my law,

 And walk not in mine ordinances;

 ^89:31If they break my statutes,

 And keep not my commandments;

 ^89:32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod,

 And their iniquity with stripes.

 ^89:33But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him,

 Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

 ^89:34My covenant will I not break,

 Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

 ^89:35 Once have I sworn by my holiness:

 I will not lie unto David:

 ^89:36His seed shall endure for ever,

 And his throne as the sun before me.

 ^89:37 It shall be established for ever as the moon,

 And as the faithful witness in the sky.

Selah

 ^89:38But thou hast cast off and rejected,

 Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

 ^89:39Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant:

 Thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

 ^89:40Thou hast broken down all his hedges;

 Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

 ^89:41All that pass by the way rob him:

 He is become a reproach to his neighbors.

 ^89:42Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries;

 Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

 ^89:43Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword,

 And hast not made him to stand in the battle.

 ^89:44Thou hast made his brightness to cease,

 And cast his throne down to the ground.

 ^89:45The days of his youth hast thou shortened:

 Thou hast covered him with shame.

Selah

 ^89:46How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever?

 How long shall thy wrath burn like fire?

 ^89:47Oh remember how short my time is:

 For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

 ^89:48What man is he that shall live and not see death,

 That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

Selah

 ^89:49Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses,

 Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?

 ^89:50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants;

 How I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty peoples,

 ^89:51Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah,

 Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

  ^89:52Blessed be Jehovah for evermore.

 Amen, and Amen.

BOOK IV