Psalms 89

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation.	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 Before the mountains became, or the land was formed along with the world: from ages past, even to all ages, you are God.	2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
3 And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men.	3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
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 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
5 which was held for nothing: so their years shall be.	5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
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 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 For, at your wrath, we have withered away, and we have been disturbed by your fury.	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 You have placed our iniquities in your sight, our age in the illumination of your countenance.	8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
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 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
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 hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
11 Who knows the power of your wrath? And, before fear, can your wrath	11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
12 be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom.	12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
13 Return, O Lord, how long? And may you be persuaded on behalf of your servants.	13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
14 We were filled in the morning with your mercy, and we exulted and delighted all our days.	14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
15 We have been rejoicing, because of the days in which you humbled us, because of the years in which we saw evils.	15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
16 Look down upon your servants and upon their works, and direct their sons.	16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
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 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
	18 For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
	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; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
	21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
	22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
	23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
	24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
	25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
	26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
	27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
	28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
	29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
	30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
	31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
	32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
	33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
	34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
	35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
	36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.
	37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
	38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
	39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
	40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
	41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
	42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
	43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
	44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
	45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
	46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
	47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
	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, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
	50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
	51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
	52 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.