89:1 I WILL sing of the mercy {and} loving-kindness of the Lord forever; with my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness from generation to generation. |
89:2 For I have said, Mercy {and} loving-kindness shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness will You establish in the very heavens [unchangeable and perpetual]. |
89:3 [You have said] I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant, |
89:4 Your Seed I will establish forever, and I will build up your throne for all generations. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! |
89:5 Let heaven (the angels) praise Your wonders, O Lord, Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones (the holy angels). |
89:6 For who in the heavens can be compared to the Lord? Who among the mighty [heavenly beings] can be likened to the Lord, |
89:7 A God greatly feared {and} revered in the council of the holy (angelic) ones, and to be feared {and} worshipfully revered above all those who are round about Him? |
89:8 O Lord God of hosts, who is a mighty one like unto You, O Lord? And Your faithfulness is round about You [an essential part of You at all times]. |
89:9 You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves arise, You still them. |
89:10 You have broken Rahab (Egypt) in pieces; with Your mighty arm You have scattered Your enemies. |
89:11 The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; the world and all that is in it, You have founded them. |
89:12 The north and the south, You have created them; Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon joyously praise Your name. |
89:13 You have a mighty arm; strong is Your hand, Your right hand is soaring high. |
89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; mercy {and} loving-kindness and truth go before Your face. |
89:15 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are the people who know the joyful sound [who understand and appreciate the spiritual blessings symbolized by the feasts]; they walk, O Lord, in the light {and} favor of Your countenance! |
89:16 In Your name they rejoice all the day, and in Your righteousness they are exalted. |
89:17 For You are the glory of their strength [their proud adornment], and by Your favor our horn is exalted {and} we walk with uplifted faces! |
89:18 For our shield belongs to the Lord, and our king to the Holy One of Israel. |
89:19 Once You spoke in a vision to Your devoted ones and said, I have endowed one who is mighty [a hero, giving him the power to help--to be a champion for Israel]; I have exalted one chosen from among the people. |
89:20 I have found David My servant; with My holy oil have I anointed him, |
89:21 With whom My hand shall be established {and} ever abide; My arm also shall strengthen him. |
89:22 The enemy shall not exact from him {or} do him violence {or} outwit him, nor shall the wicked afflict {and} humble him. |
89:23 I will beat down his foes before his face and smite those who hate him. |
89:24 My faithfulness and My mercy {and} loving-kindness shall be with him, and in My name shall his horn be exalted [great power and prosperity shall be conferred upon him]. |
89:25 I will set his hand in control also on the [Mediterranean] Sea, and his right hand on the rivers [Euphrates with its tributaries]. |
89:26 He shall cry to Me, You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation! |
89:27 Also I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. |
89:28 My mercy {and} loving-kindness will I keep for him forevermore, and My covenant shall stand fast {and} be faithful with him. |
89:29 His Offspring also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. |
89:30 If his children forsake My law and walk not in My ordinances, |
89:31 If they break {or} profane My statutes and keep not My commandments, |
89:32 Then will I punish their transgression with the rod [of chastisement], and their iniquity with stripes. |
89:33 Nevertheless, My loving-kindness will I not break off from him, nor allow My faithfulness to fail [to lie and be false to him]. |
89:34 My covenant will I not break {or} profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips. |
89:35 Once [for all] have I sworn by My holiness, which cannot be violated; I will not lie to David: |
89:36 His Offspring shall endure forever, and his throne [shall continue] as the sun before Me. |
89:37 It shall be established forever as the moon, the faithful witness in the heavens. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! |
89:38 But [in apparent contradiction to all this] You [even You the faithful Lord] have cast off and rejected; You have been full of wrath against Your anointed. |
89:39 You have despised {and} loathed and renounced the covenant with Your servant; You have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. |
89:40 You have broken down all his hedges {and} his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin. |
89:41 All who pass along the road spoil {and} rob him; he has become the scorn {and} reproach of his neighbors. |
89:42 You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice. |
89:43 Moreover, You have turned back the edge of his sword and have not made him to stand in battle. |
89:44 You have made his glory {and} splendor to cease and have hurled to the ground his throne. |
89:45 The days of his youth have You shortened; You have covered him with shame. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! |
89:46 How long, O Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? How long shall Your wrath burn like fire? |
89:47 O [earnestly] remember how short my time is {and} what a mere fleeting life mine is. For what emptiness, falsity, futility, {and} frailty You have created all men! |
89:48 What man can live and shall not see death, or can deliver himself from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the place of the dead)? Selah [pause, and calmly consider that]! |
89:49 Lord, where are Your former loving-kindnesses [shown in the reigns of David and Solomon], which You swore to David in Your faithfulness? |
89:50 Remember, Lord, {and} earnestly imprint [on Your heart] the reproach of Your servants, scorned {and} insulted, how I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many {and} mighty peoples, |
89:51 With which Your enemies have taunted, O Lord, with which they have mocked the footsteps of Your anointed. |
89:52 Blessed be the Lord forevermore! Amen and Amen. |