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Psalm 89

¹A maskil [169] of Ethan the Ezrahite. [1] I will sing of the LORD’s great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.

²I will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself.

³You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant,

⁴‘I will establish your line forever and make your throne firm through all generations.’ ” [170]

⁵The heavens praise your wonders, LORD, your faithfulness too, in the assembly of the holy ones.

⁶For who in the skies above can compare with the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the heavenly beings?

⁷In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared; he is more awesome than all who surround him.

⁸Who is like you, LORD God Almighty? You, LORD, are mighty, and your faithfulness surrounds you.

⁹You rule over the surging sea; when its waves mount up, you still them.

¹⁰You crushed Rahab like one of the slain; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.

¹¹The heavens are yours, and yours also the earth; you founded the world and all that is in it.

¹²You created the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon sing for joy at your name.

¹³Your arm is endowed with power; your hand is strong, your right hand exalted.

¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; love and faithfulness go before you.

¹⁵Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, LORD.

¹⁶They rejoice in your name all day long; they celebrate your righteousness.

¹⁷For you are their glory and strength, and by your favor you exalt our horn. [171]

¹⁸Indeed, our shield [172] belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: “I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have raised up a young man from among the people.

²⁰I have found David my servant; with my sacred oil I have anointed him.

²¹My hand will sustain him; surely my arm will strengthen him.

²²The enemy will not get the better of him; the wicked will not oppress him.

²³I will crush his foes before him and strike down his adversaries.

²⁴My faithful love will be with him, and through my name his horn [173] will be exalted.

²⁵I will set his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers.

²⁶He will call out to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock my Savior.’

²⁷And I will appoint him to be my firstborn, the most exalted of the kings of the earth.

²⁸I will maintain my love to him forever, and my covenant with him will never fail.

²⁹I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.

³⁰“If his sons forsake my law and do not follow my statutes,

³¹if they violate my decrees and fail to keep my commands,

³²I will punish their sin with the rod, their iniquity with flogging;

³³but I will not take my love from him, nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.

³⁴I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered.

³⁵Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness — and I will not lie to David —

³⁶that his line will continue forever and his throne endure before me like the sun;

³⁷it will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.”

³⁸But you have rejected, you have spurned, you have been very angry with your anointed one.

³⁹You have renounced the covenant with your servant and have defiled his crown in the dust.

⁴⁰You have broken through all his walls and reduced his strongholds to ruins.

⁴¹All who pass by have plundered him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.

⁴²You have exalted the right hand of his foes; you have made all his enemies rejoice.

⁴³Indeed, you have turned back the edge of his sword and have not supported him in battle.

⁴⁴You have put an end to his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.

⁴⁵You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with a mantle of shame.

⁴⁶How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

⁴⁷Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all humanity!

⁴⁸Who can live and not see death, or who can escape the power of the grave?

⁴⁹Lord, where is your former great love, which in your faithfulness you swore to David?

⁵⁰Remember, Lord, how your servant has [174] been mocked, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations,

⁵¹the taunts with which your enemies, LORD, have mocked, with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one.

⁵²Praise be to the LORD forever! Amen and Amen.