Psalms 89
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- 1I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
- 2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever; you shall establish your faithfulness in the very heavens.
- 3"I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant:
- 4'I will establish your seed forever and build up your throne to all generations.'" Selah.
- 5And the heavens shall praise your wonders, LORD; your faithfulness also in the congregation of the holy ones.
- 6For who in the heavens can be compared to the LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the LORD?
- 7God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the holy ones, and to be held in reverence by all who are around him.
- 8O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like you? Or to your faithfulness round about you?
- 9You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves arise, you still them.
- 10You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; you have scattered your enemies with your strong arm.
- 11The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours; as for the world and the fullness of it, you have founded them.
- 12The north and the south, you have created them; Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in your name.
- 13You have a mighty arm; strong is your hand, and high is your right hand.
- 14Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne; mercy and truth shall go before your face.
- 15Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound; they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of your presence.
- 16In your name they shall rejoice all the day, and in your righteousness they shall be exalted.
- 17For you are the glory of their strength, and in your favor our horn shall be exalted.
- 18For the LORD is our defense, and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
- 19Then you spoke in vision to your holy one and said, "I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
- 20I have found David my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him,
- 21with whom my hand shall be established; my arm also shall strengthen him.
- 22The enemy shall not exact upon him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
- 23And I will beat down his foes before his face and plague those who hate him.
- 24But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him, and in my name his horn shall be exalted.
- 25I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
- 26He shall cry to me, 'You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.'
- 27Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
- 28My mercy I will keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
- 29His seed also I will make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
- 30If his children forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments,
- 31if they break my statutes and do not keep my commandments,
- 32then I will visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.
- 33Nevertheless, I will not utterly take my lovingkindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
- 34My covenant I will not break, nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips.
- 35Once I have sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David.
- 36His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.
- 37It shall be established forever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven." Selah.
- 38But you have cast off and abhorred; you have been angry with your anointed.
- 39You have made void the covenant of your servant; you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
- 40You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strongholds to ruin.
- 41All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a reproach to his neighbors.
- 42You have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies rejoice.
- 43You have also turned the edge of his sword and have not made him to stand in the battle.
- 44You have made his glory to cease and cast his throne down to the ground.
- 45The days of his youth you have shortened; you have covered him with shame. Selah.
- 46How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Shall your wrath burn like fire?
- 47Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain?
- 48What man is he that lives and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?
- 49Lord, where are your former lovingkindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth?
- 50Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
- 51with which your enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.
- 52Blessed be the LORD forevermore. Amen, and Amen.