Psalms 89

¹ A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

² The promises of the LORD I will sing forever, proclaim your loyalty through all ages.

³ For you said, "My love is established forever; my loyalty will stand as long as the heavens.

⁴ I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant:

⁵ I will make your dynasty stand forever and establish your throne through all ages." Selah

⁶ The heavens praise your marvels, LORD, your loyalty in the assembly of the holy ones.

⁷ Who in the skies ranks with the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the gods?

⁸ A God dreaded in the council of the holy ones, greater and more awesome than all who sit there!

⁹ LORD, God of hosts, who is like you? Mighty LORD, your loyalty is always present.

¹⁰ You rule the raging sea; you still its swelling waves.

¹¹ You crushed Rahab with a mortal blow; your strong arm scattered your foes.

¹² Yours are the heavens, yours the earth; you founded the world and everything in it.

¹³ Zaphon and Amanus you created; Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

¹⁴ Mighty your arm, strong your hand, your right hand is ever exalted.

¹⁵ Justice and judgment are the foundation of your throne; love and loyalty march before you.

¹⁶ Happy the people who know you, LORD, who walk in the radiance of your face.

¹⁷ In your name they sing joyfully all the day; at your victory they raise the festal shout.

¹⁸ You are their majestic strength; by your favor our horn is exalted.

¹⁹ Truly the LORD is our shield, the Holy One of Israel, our king!

²⁰ Once you spoke in vision; to your faithful ones you said: "I have set a leader over the warriors; I have raised up a hero from the army.

²¹ I have chosen David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him.

²² My hand will be with him; my arm will make him strong.

²³ No enemy shall outwit him, nor shall the wicked defeat him.

²⁴ I will crush his foes before him, strike down those who hate him.

²⁵ My loyalty and love will be with him; through my name his horn will be exalted.

²⁶ I will set his hand upon the sea, his right hand upon the rivers.

²⁷ He shall cry to me,'You are my father, my God, the Rock that brings me victory!'

²⁸ I myself make him firstborn, Most High over the kings of the earth.

²⁹ Forever I will maintain my love for him; my covenant with him stands firm.

³⁰ I will establish his dynasty forever, his throne as the days of the heavens.

³¹ If his descendants forsake my law, do not follow my decrees,

³² If they fail to observe my statutes, do not keep my commandments,

³³ I will punish their crime with a rod and their guilt with lashes.

³⁴ But I will not take my love from him, nor will I betray my bond of loyalty.

³⁵ I will not violate my covenant; the promise of my lips I will not alter.

³⁶ By my holiness I swore once for all: I will never be false to David.

³⁷ His dynasty will continue forever, his throne, like the sun before me.

³⁸ Like the moon it will stand eternal, forever firm like the sky!" Selah

³⁹ But now you have rejected and spurned, been enraged at your anointed.

⁴⁰ You renounced the covenant with your servant, defiled his crown in the dust.

⁴¹ You broke down all his defenses, left his strongholds in ruins.

⁴² All who pass through seize plunder; his neighbors deride him.

⁴³ You have exalted the right hand of his foes, have gladdened all his enemies.

⁴⁴ You turned back his sharp sword, did not support him in battle.

⁴⁵ You brought to an end his splendor, hurled his throne to the ground.

⁴⁶ You cut short the days of his youth, covered him with shame. Selah

⁴⁷ How long, LORD? Will you stay hidden forever? Must your wrath smolder like fire?

⁴⁸ Remember how brief is my life, how frail the race you created!

⁴⁹ What mortal can live and not see death? Who can escape the power of Sheol? Selah

⁵⁰ Where are your promises of old, Lord, the loyalty sworn to David?

⁵¹ Remember, Lord, the insults to your servants, how I bear all the slanders of the nations.

⁵² Your enemies, LORD, insult your anointed; they insult my every endeavor.

⁵³ Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and amen!