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89:1  I will sing forever about the gracious love of the LORD; from generation to generation I will declare your faithfulness with my mouth.
89:2  I will declare that your gracious love was established forever; in the heavens itself, you have established your faithfulness.
89:3  I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have made a promise to David, my servant.
89:4  "I will establish your dynasty forever, and I will lift up one who will build your throne from generation to generation." Interlude
89:5  Even the heavens praise your awesome deeds, LORD, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones.
89:6  For who in the skies compares to the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the divine beings?
89:7  God is feared in the council of the holy ones, revered by all those around him.
89:8  LORD God of the Heavenly Armies, who is as mighty as you, LORD? Your faithfulness surrounds you.
89:9  You rule over the majestic sea; when its waves surge, you calm them.
89:10  You crushed the proud one to death; with your powerful arm you scattered your enemies.
89:11  Heaven and the earth belong to you, the world and everything it contains— you established them.
89:12  The north and south—you created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.
89:13  Your arm is strong; your hand is mighty; indeed, your right hand is victorious.
89:14  Righteousness and justice make up the foundation of your throne; gracious love and truth meet before you.
89:15  How happy are the people who can worship joyfully! LORD, they walk in the light of your presence.
89:16  In your name they rejoice all day long; they exult in your justice.
89:17  For you are their strength's grandeur; by your favor you exalted our power.
89:18  Indeed, our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
89:19  You spoke to your faithful ones through a vision: "I will set a helper over a warrior. I will raise up a chosen one from the people.
89:20  I have found my servant David; I have anointed him with my sacred oil,
89:21  with whom my power will be firmly established; for my arm will strengthen him.
89:22  No enemy will deceive him; no wicked person will afflict him.
89:23  I will crush his enemies before him and strike those who hate him.
89:24  My faithfulness and gracious love will be with him, and in my name his power will be exalted.
89:25  I will place his hand over the sea, and his right hand over the rivers.
89:26  He will announce to me 'You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.'
89:27  "Indeed, I myself made him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
89:28  I will show my gracious love toward him forever, since my covenant is securely established with him.
89:29  I will establish his dynasty forever, and his throne as long as heaven endures.
89:30  "But if his sons abandon my laws and do not follow my ordinances,
89:31  if they profane my statutes; and do not keep my commands,
89:32  then I will punish their disobedience with a rod and their iniquity with lashes.
89:33  But I will not cut off my gracious love from him, and I will not stop being faithful.
89:34  I will not dishonor my covenant, because I will not change what I have spoken.
89:35  I have sworn by my holiness once for all: I will not lie to David.
89:36  His dynasty will last forever and his throne will be like the sun before me.
89:37  It will be established forever like the moon, a faithful witness in the sky." Interlude
89:38  But you have spurned, rejected, and became angry with your anointed one.
89:39  You have dishonored the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown on the ground.
89:40  You have broken through all his walls; you have laid his fortresses in ruin.
89:41  All who pass by on their way plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
89:42  You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; you have caused all of his enemies to rejoice.
89:43  Moreover, you have turned back the edge of his sword and did not support him in battle.
89:44  You have caused his splendor to cease and cast down his throne to the ground.
89:45  You have caused the days of his youth to be cut short; you have covered him with shame. Interlude
89:46  How long, LORD, will you hide yourself? Forever? Will your anger continuously burn like fire?
89:47  Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings!
89:48  What valiant man can live and not see death? Who can deliver himself from the power of Sheol. Interlude
89:49  Where is your gracious love of old, Lord, that in your faithfulness you promised to David?
89:50  Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servant! I carry inside me all the insults of many people,
89:51  when your enemies reproached you, LORD, when they reproached the footsteps of your anointed.
89:52  Blessed is the LORD forever! Amen and amen!