89:2 For I have said, "Your steadfast love shall be built up forever; You shall establish Your faithfulness in the heavens." |
89:3 "I have made a covenant with My chosen; I have sworn to David My servant, |
89:4 'Your seed will I establish forever, and build up your throne to all generations.' " Selah. |
89:5 And the heavens shall praise Your wonders, O LORD, Your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints, |
89:6 For who in the heavens can be compared with the LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty is like the LORD? |
89:7 God is greatly to be feared in the congregation of the saints and to be held in reverence by all who are round about Him. |
89:8 O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty like you O LORD? And Your faithfulness is round about You. |
89:9 You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves arise, You still them. |
89:10 You have broken Rahab in pieces as one that is slain; You have scattered Your enemies with Your strong arm. |
89:11 The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; You have founded the world and all its fullness. |
89:12 The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in Your name. |
89:13 Your arm is an arm of might; Your hand is strong, and Your right hand is exalted. |
89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; mercy and truth shall go before Your face. |
89:15 Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound; they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of Your countenance. |
89:16 In Your name they shall rejoice all the day; and in Your righteousness they shall be exalted, |
89:17 For You are the glory of their strength; and in Your favor our horn is exalted, |
89:18 For the LORD is our shield; yea, our King is the Holy One of Israel. |
89:19 Then You spoke in a vision to Your godly ones, and You said, "I have laid help upon a mighty one; I have exalted a chosen one out of the people. |
89:20 I have found David, My servant; with My holy oil I have anointed him. |
89:21 My hand shall be established with him; My arm also shall strengthen him. |
89:22 The enemy shall not extract from him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him. |
89:23 And I will beat down his foes before his face and plague those who hate him. |
89:24 But My faithfulness and My mercy shall be with him; and in My name his horn shall be exalted. |
89:25 I will set his hand also in the sea and his right hand in the rivers. |
89:26 He shall cry to Me, 'My Father, You are my God, and the Rock of my salvation.' |
89:27 And I will make him My firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. |
89:28 I will keep My steadfast love for him forever, and My covenant shall stand fast with him. |
89:29 Also, will I make his seed to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. |
89:30 If his children forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments, |
89:31 If they profane My statutes and do not keep My commandments, |
89:32 Then I will visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes. |
89:33 But I will not completely take My lovingkindness from him, nor will I allow My faithfulness to fail. |
89:34 I will not break My covenant, nor change the thing that has gone out of My lips. |
89:35 Once I have sworn by My holiness, I will not lie to David. |
89:36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me. |
89:37 It shall be established forever like the moon, and like a faithful witness in the heavens." Selah. |
89:38 But You have cast off and rejected us; You have been full of wrath against Your anointed. |
89:39 You have turned away from the covenant of Your servant; You have defiled his crown by casting it to the ground. |
89:40 You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin. |
89:41 All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a curse to his neighbors. |
89:42 You have set up the right hand of his enemies; You have made all his enemies rejoice. |
89:43 You also have turned back the edge of his sword and have not made him stand in the battle. |
89:44 You have made his glory to cease and have thrown his throne down to the ground. |
89:45 The days of his youth You have shortened; You have covered him with shame. Selah. |
89:46 How long, LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Shall Your wrath burn like fire? |
89:47 Remember how short my time is; for what vanity have You created the sons of men? |
89:48 What man lives and never sees death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. |
89:49 O Lord, where are Your former lovingkindnesses which You swore to David in Your truth? |
89:50 Remember, LORD, the reproach of Your servants, how I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people |
89:51 With which Your enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed. |
89:52 Blessed is the LORD forevermore. Amen and Amen. |