Psalms 89

1[Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.] I will sing of the mercies of the Yahuah for ever: with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations. 2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: your faithfulness shall you establish in the very heavens. 3I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, 4your seed will I establish for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah. 5And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O Yahuah: your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. 6For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Yahuah? among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Yahuah? 7Elohim is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all about him. 8O Yahuah Elohim of hosts, who a strong Yahuah like unto you? or to your faithfulness round about you? 9you rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, you stillest them. 10you hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; you hast scattered your enemies with your strong arm. 11The heavens your, the earth also your: the world and the fulness thereof, you hast founded them. 12The north and the south you hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in your name. 13you hast a mighty arm: strong is your hand, high is your right hand. 14Justice and judgment the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face. 15Blessed the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Yahuah, in the light of your countenance. 16In your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted. 17For you the glory of their strength: and in your favour our horn shall be exalted. 18For the Yahuah our defence; and the Holy One of Israel our king. 19Then you spakest in vision to your holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon mighty; I have exalted chosen out of the people. 20I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: 21With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him. 22The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. 23And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. 24But my faithfulness and my mercy with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. 25I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. 26He shall cry unto me, you my father, my Elohim, and the rock of my salvation. 27Also I will make him firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. 28My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 29His seed also will I make for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. 30If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 31If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; 32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 33Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. 34My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. 35Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. 36His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. 37It shall be established for ever as the moon, and a faithful witness in heaven. Selah. 38But you hast cast off and abhorred, you hast been wroth with your anointed. 39you hast made void the covenant of your servant: you hast profaned his crown to the ground. 40you hast broken down all his hedges; you hast brought his strong holds to ruin. 41All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours. 42you hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; you hast made all his enemies to rejoice. 43you hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle. 44you hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. 45The days of his youth hast you shortened: you hast covered him with shame. Selah. 46How long, Yahuah? will you hide thyself for ever? shall your wrath burn like fire? 47Remember how short my time is: therefore hast you made all men in vain? 48What man liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. 49Lord, where your former lovingkindnesses, you swarest unto David in your truth? 50Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; I do bear in my bosom all the mighty people; 51Wherewith your enemies have reproached, O Yahuah; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed. 52Blessed the Yahuah for evermore. Amen, and Amen.