Psalms 89

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
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 A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation.
2 for you have said: love is built to last for ever, you have fixed your constancy firm in the heavens.	2 Before the mountains became, or the land was formed along with the world: from ages past, even to all ages, you are God.
3 'I have made a covenant with my Chosen One, sworn an oath to my servant David:	3 And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men.
4 I have made your dynasty firm for ever, built your throne stable age after age.'Pause	4 For a thousand years before your eyes are like the days of yesterday, which have passed by, and they are like a watch of the night,
5 The heavens praise your wonders, Yahweh, your constancy in the gathering of your faithful.	5 which was held for nothing: so their years shall be.
6 Who in the skies can compare with Yahweh? Who among the sons of god can rival him?	6 In the morning, he may pass away like grass; in the morning, he may flower and pass away. In the evening, he will fall, and harden, and become dry.
7 God, awesome in the assembly of holy ones, great and dreaded among al who surround him,	7 For, at your wrath, we have withered away, and we have been disturbed by your fury.
8 Yahweh, God Sabaoth, who is like you? Mighty Yahweh, your constancy is al round you!	8 You have placed our iniquities in your sight, our age in the illumination of your countenance.
9 You control the pride of the ocean, when its waves ride high you calm them.	9 For all our days have faded away, and at your wrath, we have fainted. Our years will be considered to be like a spider’s web.
10 You split Rahab in two like a corpse, scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.	10 The days of our years in them are seventy years. But in the powerful, they are eighty years, and more of these are with hardship and sorrow. For mildness has overwhelmed us, and we shall be corrected.
11 Yours are the heavens and yours the earth, the world and al it holds, you founded them;	11 Who knows the power of your wrath? And, before fear, can your wrath
12 you created the north and the south, Tabor and Hermon hail your name with joy.	12 be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom.
13 Yours is a strong arm, mighty your hand, your right hand raised high;	13 Return, O Lord, how long? And may you be persuaded on behalf of your servants.
14 Saving Justice and Fair Judgement the foundations of your throne, Faithful Love and Constancymarch before you.	14 We were filled in the morning with your mercy, and we exulted and delighted all our days.
15 How blessed the nation that learns to acclaim you! They will live, Yahweh, in the light of yourpresence.	15 We have been rejoicing, because of the days in which you humbled us, because of the years in which we saw evils.
16 In your name they rejoice al day long, by your saving justice they are raised up.	16 Look down upon your servants and upon their works, and direct their sons.
17 You are the flower of their strength, by your favour our strength is triumphant;	17 And may the splendor of the Lord our God be upon us. And so, direct the works of our hands over us; direct even the work of our hands.
18 for to Yahweh belongs our shield, to the Holy One of Israel 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.
20 'I have found David my servant, and anointed him with my holy oil.
21 My hand wil always be with him, my arm wil make him strong.
22 'No enemy wil be able to outwit him, no wicked man overcome him;
23 I shal crush his enemies before him, strike his opponents dead.
24 'My constancy and faithful love will be with him, in my name his strength wil be triumphant.
25 I shal establish his power over the sea, his dominion over the rivers.
26 'He wil cry to me, "You are my father, my God, the rock of my salvation!"
27 So I shal make him my first-born, the highest of earthly kings.
28 'I shal maintain my faithful love for him always, my covenant with him wil stay firm.
29 I have established his dynasty for ever, his throne to be as lasting as the heavens.
30 'Should his descendants desert my law, and not keep to my rulings,
31 should they violate my statutes, and not observe my commandments,
32 'then I shal punish their offences with the rod, their guilt with the whip,
33 but I shal never withdraw from him my faithful love, I shal not belie my constancy.
34 'I shal not violate my covenant, I shal not withdraw the word once spoken.
35 I have sworn by my holiness, once and for al , never will I break faith with David.
36 'His dynasty shal endure for ever, his throne like the sun before me,
37 as the moon is established for ever, a faithful witness in the skies.'Pause
38 Yet you yourself -- you have spurned and rejected, and have vented your wrath on your anointed,
39 you have repudiated the covenant with your servant, dishonoured his crown in the dust.
40 You have pierced al his defences, and laid his strongholds in ruins,
41 everyone passing by plunders him, he has become the butt of his neighbours.
42 You have raised high the right hand of his opponents, have made al his enemies happy;
43 you have snapped off his sword on a rock, and failed to support him in battle.
44 You have stripped him of his splendid sceptre, and toppled his throne to the ground.
45 You have aged him before his time, enveloped him in shame.Pause
46 How long, Yahweh, will you remain hidden? For ever? Is your anger to go on smouldering like a fire?
47 Remember me; how long have I left? For what pointless end did you create al the children of Adam?
48 Who can live and never see death? Who can save himself from the clutches of Sheol?Pause
49 Lord, what of those pledges of your faithful love? You made an oath to David by your constancy.
50 Do not forget the insults to your servant; I take to heart the taunts of the nations,
51 which your enemies have level ed, Yahweh, have level ed at the footsteps of your anointed!
52 Blessed be Yahweh for ever. Amen, Amen.