89:1 A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing forever of Yahweh’s acts of loyal love. From generation to generation I will make known your faithfulness with my mouth.
89:2 For I say, “Forever your loyal love is built up. The heavens you have established with your faithfulness in them.”
89:3 “I made a covenant with my chosen one; I swore an oath to David my servant:
89:4 ‘I will establish your descendants forever, and I will build up your throne from generation to generation.’” Selah
89:5 And so the heavens will praise your wonderful deed, O Yahweh, even your faithfulness, in the assembly of the holy ones.
89:6 For who in the sky is equal to Yahweh? Who is like Yahweh among the sons of God,
89:7 a God feared greatly in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all surrounding him?
89:8 O Yahweh God of hosts, who is mighty like you, O Yah, with your faithfulness surrounding you?
89:9 You are ruling the surging of the sea. When its waves rise, you yourself still them.
89:10 You yourself crushed Rahab like one who is slain; you scattered your enemies with your strong arm.
89:11 The heavens are yours, the earth yours as well, the world with its fullness, because you founded them.
89:12 North and south, you created them; Tabor and Hermon shout joyfully over your name.
89:13 You have a mighty arm; Your hand is strong; your right hand reaches high.
89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loyal love and faithfulness come before your face.
89:15 Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout; O Yahweh, they walk about in the light of your countenance.
89:16 In your name they rejoice all the day, and in your righteousness they rise up.
89:17 For you are the glory of their strength, and by your favor our horn rises up,
89:18 because our shield belongs to Yahweh, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
89:19 Formerly you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones, and said, “I have bestowed help on a mighty man; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
89:20 I have found David, my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him,
89:21 with whom my hand will be steadfast. Surely my arm will strengthen him.
89:22 The enemy will not deceive him, and no evil man will afflict him.
89:23 But I will crush his adversaries before him, and I will strike those who hate him.
89:24 And so my faithfulness and my loyal love will be with him, and in my name his horn will rise up.
89:25 And I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.
89:26 He will call out to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.’
89:27 I will also make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
89:28 Forever I will keep my loyal love for him, and my covenant will be reliable for him.
89:29 I will also establish his offspring forever, and his throne as the days of the heavens.
89:30 If his sons forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments,
89:31 if they defile my statutes and do not keep my commandments,
89:32 then I will punish their transgression with a rod, and their guilt with wounds.
89:33 But I will not break off my loyal love from him, and I will not be false against my faithfulness.
89:34 I will not defile my covenant, or alter what proceeded from my lips.
89:35 Once I have sworn by my holiness, ‘I will surely not lie to David,
89:36 His offspring will endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.
89:37 Like the moon it will be steadfast forever, and like an enduring witness in the sky.’” Selah
89:38 But you have spurned and rejected; you are very angry with your anointed one.
89:39 You have repudiated the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dirt.
89:40 You have broken down all his walls; you have made his fortifications a ruin.
89:41 All passing along the road plunder him; he has become a taunt to his neighbors.
89:42 You have raised the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all his enemies rejoice.
89:43 You have also turned back the edge of his sword and have not helped him stand his ground in the battle.
89:44 You have made his splendor to cease, and cast his throne to the ground.
89:45 You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah
89:46 How long, O Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire forever?
89:47 Remember what my lifespan is. Remember for what vanity you have created all the children of humankind.
89:48 What man can live on and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the power of Sheol? Selah
89:49 Where are your former acts of loyal love, O Lord, that you swore to David by your faithfulness?
89:50 Remember, O Lord the taunting of your servants, how I bear in my bosom the taunts of all the many peoples,
89:51 by which your enemies taunt, O Yahweh, by which they taunt the steps of your anointed one.
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