Psalms 89

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 [Poem For Ethan the native-born] I shal sing the faithful love of Yahweh for ever, from age to age mylips shall declare your constancy,	1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
2 for you have said: love is built to last for ever, you have fixed your constancy firm in the heavens.	2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
3 'I have made a covenant with my Chosen One, sworn an oath to my servant David:	3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
4 I have made your dynasty firm for ever, built your throne stable age after age.'Pause	4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
5 The heavens praise your wonders, Yahweh, your constancy in the gathering of your faithful.	5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
6 Who in the skies can compare with Yahweh? Who among the sons of god can rival him?	6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
7 God, awesome in the assembly of holy ones, great and dreaded among al who surround him,	7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
8 Yahweh, God Sabaoth, who is like you? Mighty Yahweh, your constancy is al round you!	8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
9 You control the pride of the ocean, when its waves ride high you calm them.	9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
10 You split Rahab in two like a corpse, scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.	10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
11 Yours are the heavens and yours the earth, the world and al it holds, you founded them;	11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
12 you created the north and the south, Tabor and Hermon hail your name with joy.	12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
13 Yours is a strong arm, mighty your hand, your right hand raised high;	13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
14 Saving Justice and Fair Judgement the foundations of your throne, Faithful Love and Constancymarch before you.	14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
15 How blessed the nation that learns to acclaim you! They will live, Yahweh, in the light of yourpresence.	15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
16 In your name they rejoice al day long, by your saving justice they are raised up.	16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
17 You are the flower of their strength, by your favour our strength is triumphant;	17 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
18 for to Yahweh belongs our shield, to the Holy One of Israel our king.	18 For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
19 Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful you said: 'I have given strength to a warrior, I have raisedup a man chosen from my people.	19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
20 'I have found David my servant, and anointed him with my holy oil.	20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
21 My hand wil always be with him, my arm wil make him strong.	21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
22 'No enemy wil be able to outwit him, no wicked man overcome him;	22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
23 I shal crush his enemies before him, strike his opponents dead.	23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
24 'My constancy and faithful love will be with him, in my name his strength wil be triumphant.	24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
25 I shal establish his power over the sea, his dominion over the rivers.	25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
26 'He wil cry to me, "You are my father, my God, the rock of my salvation!"	26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
27 So I shal make him my first-born, the highest of earthly kings.	27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
28 'I shal maintain my faithful love for him always, my covenant with him wil stay firm.	28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
29 I have established his dynasty for ever, his throne to be as lasting as the heavens.	29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
30 'Should his descendants desert my law, and not keep to my rulings,	30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
31 should they violate my statutes, and not observe my commandments,	31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
32 'then I shal punish their offences with the rod, their guilt with the whip,	32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
33 but I shal never withdraw from him my faithful love, I shal not belie my constancy.	33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
34 'I shal not violate my covenant, I shal not withdraw the word once spoken.	34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35 I have sworn by my holiness, once and for al , never will I break faith with David.	35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
36 'His dynasty shal endure for ever, his throne like the sun before me,	36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.
37 as the moon is established for ever, a faithful witness in the skies.'Pause	37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
38 Yet you yourself -- you have spurned and rejected, and have vented your wrath on your anointed,	38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
39 you have repudiated the covenant with your servant, dishonoured his crown in the dust.	39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
40 You have pierced al his defences, and laid his strongholds in ruins,	40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
41 everyone passing by plunders him, he has become the butt of his neighbours.	41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
42 You have raised high the right hand of his opponents, have made al his enemies happy;	42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
43 you have snapped off his sword on a rock, and failed to support him in battle.	43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
44 You have stripped him of his splendid sceptre, and toppled his throne to the ground.	44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
45 You have aged him before his time, enveloped him in shame.Pause	45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
46 How long, Yahweh, will you remain hidden? For ever? Is your anger to go on smouldering like a fire?	46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
47 Remember me; how long have I left? For what pointless end did you create al the children of Adam?	47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
48 Who can live and never see death? Who can save himself from the clutches of Sheol?Pause	48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
49 Lord, what of those pledges of your faithful love? You made an oath to David by your constancy.	49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
50 Do not forget the insults to your servant; I take to heart the taunts of the nations,	50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
51 which your enemies have level ed, Yahweh, have level ed at the footsteps of your anointed!	51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
52 Blessed be Yahweh for ever. Amen, Amen.	52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.