Psalm 89

I Will Sing of the Steadfast Love of the Lord

A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

¹I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord, forever;

with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

²For I said, “Steadfast love will be built up forever;

in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness.”

³You have said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one;

I have sworn to David my servant:

⁴‘I will establish your offspring forever,

and build your throne for all generations.’” Selah

⁵Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Lord,

your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!

⁶For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord?

Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,

⁷a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones,

and awesome above all who are around him?

⁸O Lord God of hosts,

who is mighty as you are, O Lord,

with your faithfulness all around you?

⁹You rule the raging of the sea;

when its waves rise, you still them.

¹⁰You crushed Rahab like a carcass;

you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

¹¹The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours;

the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.

¹²The north and the south, you have created them;

Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.

¹³You have a mighty arm;

strong is your hand, high your right hand.

¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;

steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

¹⁵Blessed are the people who know the festal shout,

who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face,

¹⁶who exult in your name all the day

and in your righteousness are exalted.

¹⁷For you are the glory of their strength;

by your favor our horn is exalted.

¹⁸For our shield belongs to the Lord,

our king to the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, and said:

“I have granted help to one who is mighty;

I have exalted one chosen from the people.

²⁰I have found David, my servant;

with my holy oil I have anointed him,

²¹so that my hand shall be established with him;

my arm also shall strengthen him.

²²The enemy shall not outwit him;

the wicked shall not humble him.

²³I will crush his foes before him

and strike down those who hate him.

²⁴My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him,

and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

²⁵I will set his hand on the sea

and his right hand on the rivers.

²⁶He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father,

my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’

²⁷And I will make him the firstborn,

the highest of the kings of the earth.

²⁸My steadfast love I will keep for him forever,

and my covenant will stand firm for him.

²⁹I will establish his offspring forever

and his throne as the days of the heavens.

³⁰If his children forsake my law

and do not walk according to my rules,

³¹if they violate my statutes

and do not keep my commandments,

³²then I will punish their transgression with the rod

and their iniquity with stripes,

³³but I will not remove from him my steadfast love

or be false to my faithfulness.

³⁴I will not violate my covenant

or alter the word that went forth from my lips.

³⁵Once for all I have sworn by my holiness;

I will not lie to David.

³⁶His offspring shall endure forever,

his throne as long as the sun before me.

³⁷Like the moon it shall be established forever,

a faithful witness in the skies.” Selah

³⁸But now you have cast off and rejected;

you are full of wrath against your anointed.

³⁹You have renounced the covenant with your servant;

you have defiled his crown in the dust.

⁴⁰You have breached all his walls;

you have laid his strongholds in ruins.

⁴¹All who pass by plunder him;

he has become the scorn of his neighbors.

⁴²You have exalted the right hand of his foes;

you have made all his enemies rejoice.

⁴³You have also turned back the edge of his sword,

and you have not made him stand in battle.

⁴⁴You have made his splendor to cease

and cast his throne to the ground.

⁴⁵You have cut short the days of his youth;

you have covered him with shame. Selah

⁴⁶How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever?

How long will your wrath burn like fire?

⁴⁷Remember how short my time is!

For what vanity you have created all the children of man!

⁴⁸What man can live and never see death?

Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

⁴⁹Lord, where is your steadfast love of old,

which by your faithfulness you swore to David?

⁵⁰Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked,

and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations,

⁵¹with which your enemies mock, O Lord,

with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.

⁵²Blessed be the Lord forever!

Amen and Amen.