Psalm 89

¹I will sing of the loving kindness of the LORD forever.

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

²I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever.

You established the heavens.

Your faithfulness is in them.”

³“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 up your throne to all generations.’ ”

⁵The heavens will praise your wonders, LORD,

your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

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

Who amongst the sons of the heavenly beings is like the LORD,

⁷a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones,

to be feared above all those who are around him?

⁸LORD, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you?

The LORD, your faithfulness is around you.

⁹You rule the pride of the sea.

When its waves rise up, you calm them.

¹⁰You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain.

You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

¹¹The heavens are yours.

The earth also is yours,

the world and its fullness.

You have founded them.

¹²You have created the north and the south.

Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

¹³You have a mighty arm.

Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.

Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

¹⁵Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you.

They walk in the light of your presence, LORD.

¹⁶In your name they rejoice all day.

In your righteousness, they are exalted.

¹⁷For you are the glory of their strength.

In your favour, our horn will be exalted.

¹⁸For our shield belongs to the LORD,

our king to the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹Then you spoke in vision to your saints,

and said, “I have given strength to the warrior.

I have exalted a young man from the people.

²⁰I have found David, my servant.

I have anointed him with my holy oil,

²¹with whom my hand shall be established.

My arm will also strengthen him.

²²No enemy will tax him.

No wicked man will oppress him.

²³I will beat down his adversaries before him,

and strike those who hate him.

²⁴But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.

In my name, his horn will be exalted.

²⁵I will set his hand also on the sea,

and his right hand on the rivers.

²⁶He will call to me, ‘You are my Father,

my God, and the rock of my salvation!’

²⁷I will also appoint him my firstborn,

the highest of the kings of the earth.

²⁸I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more.

My covenant will stand firm with him.

²⁹I will also make his offspring endure forever,

and his throne as the days of heaven.

³⁰If his children forsake my law,

and don’t walk in my ordinances;

³¹if they break my statutes,

and don’t keep my commandments;

³²then I will punish their sin with the rod,

and their iniquity with stripes.

³³But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him,

nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

³⁴I will not break my covenant,

nor alter what my lips have uttered.

³⁵Once I have sworn by my holiness,

I will not lie to David.

³⁶His offspring will endure forever,

his throne like the sun before me.

³⁷It will be established forever like the moon,

the faithful witness in the sky.”

³⁸But you have rejected and spurned.

You have been angry with your anointed.

³⁹You have renounced the covenant of your servant.

You have defiled his crown in the dust.

⁴⁰You have broken down all his hedges.

You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

⁴¹All who pass by the way rob him.

He has become a reproach to his neighbours.

⁴²You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries.

You have made all of his enemies rejoice.

⁴³Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword,

and haven’t supported him in battle.

⁴⁴You have ended his splendour,

and thrown his throne down to the ground.

⁴⁵You have shortened the days of his youth.

You have covered him with shame.

⁴⁶How long, LORD?

Will you hide yourself forever?

Will your wrath burn like fire?

⁴⁷Remember how short my time is,

for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

⁴⁸What man is he who shall live and not see death,

who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

⁴⁹Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses,

which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

⁵⁰Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants,

how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

⁵¹With which your enemies have mocked, LORD,

with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

⁵²Blessed be the LORD forever more.

Amen, and Amen.