Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
89:1I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah for ever:
With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
89:2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever;
Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.
89:3I have made a covenant with my chosen,
I have sworn unto David my servant:
89:4Thy seed will I establish for ever,
And build up thy throne to all generations.
89:5And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah;
Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
89:6For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah?
Who among the mighty is like unto Jehovah,
89:7A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones,
And to be feared above all them that are round about him?
Who is a mighty one, like unto thee, O Jehovah?
And thy faithfulness is round about thee.
89:9Thou rulest the pride of the sea:
When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
89:10Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain;
Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.
89:11The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine:
The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
89:12The north and the south, thou hast created them:
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.
89:13Thou hast a mighty arm;
Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
89:14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne:
Lovingkindness and truth go before thy face.
89:15Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound:
They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.
89:16In thy name do they rejoice all the day;
And in thy righteousness are they exalted.
89:17For thou art the glory of their strength;
And in thy favor our horn shall be exalted.
89:18For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah;
And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
89:19Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints,
And saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
89:20I have found David my servant;
With my holy oil have I anointed him:
89:21With whom my hand shall be established;
Mine arm also shall strengthen him.
89:22The enemy shall not exact from him,
Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
89:23And I will beat down his adversaries before him,
And smite them that hate him.
89:24But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be with him;
And in my name shall his horn be exalted.
89:25I will set his hand also on the sea,
And his right hand on the rivers.
89:26He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father,
My God, and the rock of my salvation.
89:27I also will make him my first-born,
The highest of the kings of the earth.
89:28My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore;
And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
89:29His seed also will I make to endure for ever,
And his throne as the days of heaven.
89:30If his children forsake my law,
And walk not in mine ordinances;
89:31If they break my statutes,
And keep not my commandments;
89:32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod,
And their iniquity with stripes.
89:33But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him,
Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
89:34My covenant will I not break,
Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
89:35 Once have I sworn by my holiness:
I will not lie unto David:
89:36His seed shall endure for ever,
And his throne as the sun before me.
89:37 It shall be established for ever as the moon,
And as the faithful witness in the sky.
89:38But thou hast cast off and rejected,
Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
89:39Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant:
Thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
89:40Thou hast broken down all his hedges;
Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.
89:41All that pass by the way rob him:
He is become a reproach to his neighbors.
89:42Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries;
Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
89:43Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword,
And hast not made him to stand in the battle.
89:44Thou hast made his brightness to cease,
And cast his throne down to the ground.
89:45The days of his youth hast thou shortened:
Thou hast covered him with shame.
89:46How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever?
How long shall thy wrath burn like fire?
89:47Oh remember how short my time is:
For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
89:48What man is he that shall live and not see death,
That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?
89:49Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses,
Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?
89:50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants;
How I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty peoples,
89:51Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah,
Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
89:52Blessed be Jehovah for evermore.
Amen, and Amen.
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