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89:1  A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
89:2  I will sing forever of the Lord’s kindness; with my lips I will proclaim your faithfulness throughout the generations.
89:3  You said, “My kindness lasts forever; my faithfulness is as firmly established as the heavens.
89:4  “I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to my servant David:
89:5  ‘I will establish your descendants forever and allow your throne to endure for all generations.’ ” Selah
89:6  Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Lord, your faithfulness in the assembly of your holy ones.
89:7  For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord? Is there any heavenly being who is like the Lord,
89:8  a God who is feared in the council of the holy ones, greater and more awesome than any who stand in his presence?
89:9  O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? Almighty Lord, your faithfulness is never absent.
89:10  You control the raging sea, calming its surging waves.
89:11  You crushed Rahab with a deadly blow; you scattered your foes with your mighty arm.
89:12  Yours are the heavens and yours is the earth; you founded the world and all that is in it.
89:13  You created the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.
89:14  Mighty is your arm and strong is your hand; your right hand is forever raised high.
89:15  Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; kindness and faithfulness go before your face.
89:16  Blessed are the people who know how to acclaim you, O Lord, who walk in the light of your countenance.
89:17  In your name they rejoice all day long, and they exult in your righteousness.
89:18  You are the strength in which they glory, and by your kindness our horn is exalted.
89:19  For the Lord is our shield, the Holy One of Israel, our King.
89:20  On one occasion you spoke in a vision and said to your faithful servants: “I have appointed as leader one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
89:21  I have found David, my servant, and with my holy oil I have anointed him.
89:22  “My hand will sustain him; my arm will make him strong.
89:23  No enemy will overcome him; no one who is wicked will oppress him.
89:24  “I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
89:25  My faithfulness and my kindness will be with him; through my name his horn will be exalted.
89:26  “I will stretch his hand as far as the sea and his right hand as far as the rivers.
89:27  He will cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
89:28  “I will designate him as my firstborn, the highest of all earthly kings.
89:29  Forever I will maintain my kindness for him, and my covenant with him will never end.
89:30  I will establish his dynasty forever and his throne as long as the heavens.
89:31  “If his descendants forsake my law and refuse to conform to my decrees,
89:32  if they break my statutes and do not keep my precepts,
89:33  I will punish their disobedience with the rod and their iniquity with scourges.
89:34  “But I will not deprive him of my kindness or fail to observe my faithfulness.
89:35  I will not violate my covenant or alter the promise I have spoken.
89:36  “By my holiness I have sworn once and for all: never will I break faith with David.
89:37  His dynasty will last forever, and his throne will endure before me like the sun.
89:38  It will endure forever like the moon, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah
89:39  But now you have spurned and rejected him, you have become filled with wrath against your anointed one.
89:40  You have repudiated your covenant with your servant and dishonored his crown in the dust.
89:41  You have breached all his walls and turned his strongholds into ruins.
89:42  Every passer-by has despoiled him; he has become a laughingstock to his neighbors.
89:43  You have exalted the right hand of his foes and caused all his enemies to rejoice.
89:44  You have driven back his drawn sword and left him to fight without your support.
89:45  You have put an end to his glory and toppled his throne to the ground.
89:46  You have curtailed the time of his youth and enveloped him in shame. Selah
89:47  How long, O Lord? Will you remain hidden forever? How long will your wrath blaze like a fire?
89:48  Remember how brief is my span of life and how weak you have made all mortals.
89:49  Who can live and never experience death? Who can save himself from the power of the netherworld? Selah
89:50  Where is your kindness of old, O Lord, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
89:51  Remember, O Lord, the insults hurled at your servant; recall how I have borne in my heart the slanders of all the peoples.
89:52  Your enemies have leveled insults at us, O Lord; they have taunted the footsteps of your anointed one.