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.