Psalms 89

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation.	1 Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite.
2 Before the mountains became, or the land was formed along with the world: from ages past, even to all ages, you are God.	2 The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.
3 And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men.	3 For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.
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,	4 I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant:
5 which was held for nothing: so their years shall be.	5 Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation.
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.	6 The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints.
7 For, at your wrath, we have withered away, and we have been disturbed by your fury.	7 For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God?
8 You have placed our iniquities in your sight, our age in the illumination of your countenance.	8 God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him.
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.	9 O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.
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.	10 Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.
11 Who knows the power of your wrath? And, before fear, can your wrath	11 Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.
12 be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom.	12 Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded:
13 Return, O Lord, how long? And may you be persuaded on behalf of your servants.	13 the north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name:
14 We were filled in the morning with your mercy, and we exulted and delighted all our days.	14 thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted:
15 We have been rejoicing, because of the days in which you humbled us, because of the years in which we saw evils.	15 justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:
16 Look down upon your servants and upon their works, and direct their sons.	16 blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance:
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.	17 and in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted.
	18 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted.
	19 For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel.
	20 Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people.
	21 I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him.
	22 For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him.
	23 The enemy shall have no advantage over him: nor the son of iniquity have power to hurt him.
	24 And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that hate him I will put to flight.
	25 And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
	26 And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the rivers.
	27 He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the support of my salvation.
	28 And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth.
	29 I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him.
	30 And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven.
	31 And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments:
	32 If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments:
	33 I will visit their iniquities with a rod: and their sins with stripes.
	34 But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail.
	35 Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void.
	36 Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David:
	37 his seed shall endure for ever.
	38 And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for ever, and a faithful witness in heaven.
	39 But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with thy anointed.
	40 Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth.
	41 Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear.
	42 All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours.
	43 Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
	44 Thou hast turned away the help of his sword; and hast not assisted him in battle.
	45 Thou hast made his purification to cease: and thou hast cast his throne down to the ground.
	46 Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him with confusion.
	47 How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire?
	48 Remember what my substance is for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?
	49 Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell?
	50 Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst swear to David in thy truth?
	51 Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations:
	52 Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the change of thy anointed.
	53 Blessed be the Lord for evermore. So be it. So be it.