Psalm

89 Jehovah’s expressions of loving-kindness* I will sing about even to time indefinite.+

For generation after generation I shall make your faithfulness known with my mouth.+

 2 For I have said: “Loving-kindness will stay built even to time indefinite;+

As for the heavens, you keep your faithfulness firmly established in them.”+

 3 “I have concluded* a covenant toward my chosen one;+

I have sworn to David my servant,+

 4 ‘Even to time indefinite I shall firmly establish your seed,*+

And I will build your throne+ to generation after generation.’” Seʹlah.

 5 And the heavens will laud your marvelous act, O Jehovah,+

Yes, your faithfulness in the congregation* of the holy ones.

 6 For who in the skies can be compared to Jehovah?+

Who can resemble Jehovah among the sons of God?*+

 7 God* is to be held in awe among the intimate group of holy ones;+

He is grand and fear-inspiring over all who are round about him.+

 8 O Jehovah God of armies,+

Who is vigorous like you, O Jah?*+

And your faithfulness is all around you.+

 9 You are ruling over the swelling of the sea;+

When it raises up its waves you yourself calm them.+

10 You yourself have crushed Raʹhab,*+ even as someone slain.+

By the arm of your strength you have scattered your enemies.+

11 Heaven is yours,+ the earth also is yours;+

The productive land* and what fills it+—you yourself have founded them.+

12 The north and the south*—you yourself created them;+

Taʹbor+ and Herʹmon+—in your name they cry out joyfully.+

13 An arm with mightiness is yours,+

Your hand is strong,+

Your right hand is exalted.+

14 Righteousness and judgment are the established place of your throne;+

Loving-kindness and trueness* themselves come in before your face.+

15 Happy are the people knowing the joyful shouting.+

O Jehovah, in the light of your face they keep walking.+

16 In your name they are joyful all day long+

And in your righteousness they are exalted.+

17 For you are the beauty of their strength;+

And by your goodwill our horn is exalted.+

18 For our shield belongs to Jehovah,+

And our king belongs to the Holy One of Israel.+

19 At that time you spoke in a vision to your loyal ones,+

And you proceeded to say:

“I have placed help upon a mighty one;+

I have exalted a chosen one from among the people.+

20 I have found David my servant;+

With my holy oil I have anointed him,+

21 With whom my own hand will be firm,+

Whom my own arm also will strengthen.+

22 No enemy will make exactions upon him,+

Neither will any son of unrighteousness afflict him.+

23 And from before him I crushed his adversaries to pieces,+

And to those intensely hating him I kept dealing out blows.+

24 And my faithfulness and my loving-kindness are with him,+

And in my name his horn is exalted.+

25 And on the sea I have put his hand+

And on the rivers his right hand.+

26 He himself calls out to me, ‘You are my Father,+

My God+ and the Rock of my salvation.’+

27 Also, I myself shall place him as firstborn,+

The most high of the kings of the earth.+

28 To time indefinite I shall preserve my loving-kindness toward him,+

And my covenant will be faithful* to him.+

29 And I shall certainly set up his seed forever+

And his throne as the days of heaven.+

30 If his sons leave my law+

And in my judicial decisions they do not walk,+

31 If they profane my own statutes

And they do not keep my own commandments,

32 I must also turn my attention to their transgression even with a rod+

And to their error even with strokes.+

33 But my loving-kindness* I shall not break off from him,+

Nor shall I prove false with regard to my faithfulness.+

34 I shall not profane my covenant,+

And the expression out of my lips I shall not change.+

35 Once I have sworn in my holiness,+

To David I will not tell lies.+

36 His seed itself will prove to be even to time indefinite,+

And his throne as the sun in front of me.+

37 As the moon it will be firmly established for time indefinite,

And [as] a faithful witness in the skies.” Seʹlah.

38 But you—you have cast off and you keep contemning;+

You have become furious toward your anointed one.*+

39 You have spurned the covenant of your servant;

You have profaned his diadem to the very earth.+

40 You have broken down all his stone pens;+

You have laid his fortifications in ruin.+

41 All those passing along the way have pillaged him;+

He has become a reproach to his neighbors.+

42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries;+

You have caused all his enemies to rejoice.+

43 What is more, you again treat his sword as a foe,+

And you have caused him not to gain ground in the battle.+

44 You have made [him] cease from his luster,+

And his throne you have hurled to the very earth.+

45 You have shortened the days of his youth;

You have enwrapped him with shame.+ Seʹlah.

46 How long, O Jehovah, will you keep yourself concealed? For all time?+

Will your rage keep on burning just like a fire?+

47 Remember of what duration of life I am.+

Is it all in vain that you have created all the sons of men?*+

48 What able-bodied man is there alive who will not see death?+

Can he provide escape for his soul from the hand of Sheʹol?+ Seʹlah.

49 Where are your former acts of loving-kindness, O Jehovah,*

About which you swore to David in your faithfulness?+

50 Remember, O Jehovah,* the reproach upon your servants,+

My carrying in my bosom [the reproach of] all the many peoples,+

51 How your enemies have reproached, O Jehovah,*+

How they have reproached the footprints of your anointed one.+