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.
I will sing of the loving kindness of Jehovah forever. With my mouth I will 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 have said, Mercy shall be built up forever. Thy faithfulness thou will establish in the very 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 seed I will establish forever, and build up thy throne to all generations. (Selah)
5 The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, and also your truth, in the Church of the saints.
And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah, thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the sanctified.
6 For who among the clouds is equal to the Lord? Who among the sons of God is like God?
For who in the clouds can be compared to Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like Jehovah,
7 God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him.
a God very awesome in the council of the holy ones, and to be feared above all those who are round about 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 a mighty one 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 rule the pride of the sea. When the waves of it arise, thou still 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 have broken Rahab in pieces, as a wounded man. Thou have scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.
11 Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness.
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine, the world and the fullness of it; thou have founded them.
12 You created the north and the sea. Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name.
The north and the south, thou have created them. 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.
Thou have a mighty arm. Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
14 Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne. Loving kindness 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,
Blessed is the people who know the joyful sound. They walk, O Jehovah, 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 do they rejoice all the day, and in thy righteousness are they exalted.
17 For you are the glory of their virtue, and in your goodness, our horn will be exalted.
For thou are the glory of their strength, and in thy favor our horn shall be exalted.
18 For our assumption is of the Lord, and it is of our king, the holy one of Israel.
For our shield belongs to Jehovah, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
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.
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.
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 I have anointed him,
21 For my hand will assist him, and my arm will fortify him.
with whom my hand shall be established. My arm also 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 exact from him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
23 And I will cut down his enemies before his face. And those who hate him, I will turn to flight.
And I will beat down his adversaries before him, and smite those who hate him,
24 And my truth and my mercy will be with him. And his horn will be exalted in my name.
but my faithfulness and my loving kindness shall be with him, and in 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 also set his hand on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.
26 He will invoke me: “You are my father, my God, and the support of my salvation.”
He shall cry to me, Thou are 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 also will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
28 I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, and my covenant for him faithfully.
I will keep my loving kindness for him for evermore. And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
29 And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, and his throne like the days of heaven.
I will also make his seed to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
30 But if his sons abandon my law, and if they do not walk in my judgments,
If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in my ordinances,
31 if they profane my justices, and if they do not keep my commandments:
if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments,
32 I will visit their iniquities with a rod, and their sins with a beating.
then I will visit their transgression with the 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 loving kindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow 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 the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35 I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David,
I have sworn once by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
36 his offspring will remain for eternity. And his throne will be like the sun in my sight,
His seed shall endure forever, 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 forever as the moon, and as the faithful witness in the sky. (Selah)
38 Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, you have pushed away, my Christ.
But thou have cast off and rejected. Thou have been angry with thine anointed.
39 You have overthrown the covenant of your servant. You have profaned his sanctuary on earth.
Thou have abhorred the covenant of thy servant. Thou have profaned his crown to the ground.
40 You have destroyed all his fences. You have made his territory dreadful.
Thou have broken down all his hedges. Thou have 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 the way rob him. He has become 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 have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. Thou have made all his enemies to rejoice.
43 You have diverted the help of his sword, and you have not assisted him in battle.
Yea, thou turn back the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.
44 You have torn him away from cleansing, and you have smashed his throne down to the ground.
Thou have made his brightness to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
45 You have reduced the days of his time. You have flooded him with confusion.
The days of his youth thou have shortened. Thou have covered him with shame. (Selah)
46 How long, O Lord? Will you turn away unto the end? Will your wrath flare up like a fire?
How long, O Jehovah? Will thou hide thyself forever? Shall thy wrath burn like fire?
47 Remember what my substance is. For could you really have appointed all the sons of men in vain?
O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of 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 is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? (Selah) (Sheol h7585)
49 O Lord, where are your mercies of antiquity, just as you swore to David in your truth?
Lord, where are thy former loving kindnesses, which thou swore to David in thy faithfulness?
50 Be mindful, O Lord, of the disgrace of your servants (which I have sustained in my sinews) among many nations.
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants, how I bear in my bosom all the mighty peoples,
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, O Jehovah, with which they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
52 Blessed is the Lord for all eternity. Amen. Amen.
Blessed be Jehovah for evermore. Truly, and Truly.
