Psalm 89

¹Your love, O Lord, for ever will I sing; *from age to age my mouth will proclaim your faithfulness.

²For I am persuaded that your love is established for ever; *you have set your faithfulness firmly in the heavens.

³“I have made a covenant with my chosen one; *I have sworn an oath to David my servant:

⁴‘I will establish your line for ever, *and preserve your throne for all generations.’”

⁵The heavens bear witness to your wonders, O Lord, *and to your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones;

⁶For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord? *who is like the Lord among the gods?

⁷God is much to be feared in the council of the holy ones, *great and terrible to all those round about him.

⁸Who is like you, Lord God of hosts? *O mighty Lord, your faithfulness is all around you.

⁹You rule the raging of the sea *and still the surging of its waves.

¹⁰You have crushed Rahab of the deep with a deadly wound; *you have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

¹¹Yours are the heavens; the earth also is yours; *you laid the foundations of the world and all that is in it.

¹²You have made the north and the south; *Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your Name.

¹³You have a mighty arm; *strong is your hand and high is your right hand.

¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundations of your throne; *love and truth go before your face.

¹⁵Happy are the people who know the festal shout! *they walk, O Lord, in the light of your presence.

¹⁶They rejoice daily in your Name; *they are jubilant in your righteousness.

¹⁷For you are the glory of their strength, *and by your favor our might is exalted.

¹⁸Truly, the Lord is our ruler; *The Holy One of Israel is our King.

¹⁹You spoke once in vision and said to your faithful people: *“I have set the crown upon a warrior and have exalted one chosen out of the people.

²⁰I have found David my servant; *with my holy oil have I anointed him.

²¹My hand will hold him fast *and my arm will make him strong.

²²No enemy shall deceive him, *nor any wicked man bring him down.

²³I will crush his foes before him *and strike down those who hate him.

²⁴My faithfulness and love shall be with him, *and he shall be victorious through my Name.

²⁵I shall make his dominion extend *from the Great Sea to the River.

²⁶He will say to me, ‘You are my Father, *my God, and the rock of my salvation.’

²⁷I will make him my firstborn *and higher than the kings of the earth.

²⁸I will keep my love for him for ever, *and my covenant will stand firm for him.

²⁹I will establish his line for ever *and his throne as the days of heaven.”

³⁰“If his children forsake my law *and do not walk according to my judgments;

³¹If they break my statutes *and do not keep my commandments;

³²I will punish their transgressions with a rod *and their iniquities with the lash;

³³But I will not take my love from him, *nor let my faithfulness prove false.

³⁴I will not break my covenant, *nor change what has gone out of my lips.

³⁵Once for all I have sworn by my holiness: *‘I will not lie to David.

³⁶His line shall endure for ever *and his throne as the sun before me;

³⁷It shall stand fast for evermore like the moon, *the abiding witness in the sky.’”

³⁸But you have cast off and rejected your anointed; *you have become enraged at him.

³⁹You have broken your covenant with your servant, *defiled his crown, and hurled it to the ground.

⁴⁰You have breached all his walls *and laid his strongholds in ruins.

⁴¹All who pass by despoil him; *he has become the scorn of his neighbors.

⁴²You have exalted the right hand of his foes *and made all his enemies rejoice.

⁴³You have turned back the edge of his sword *and have not sustained him in battle.

⁴⁴You have put an end to his splendor *and cast his throne to the ground.

⁴⁵You have cut short the days of his youth *and have covered him with shame.

⁴⁶How long will you hide yourself, O Lord? will you hide yourself for ever? *how long will your anger burn like fire?

⁴⁷Remember, Lord, how short life is, *how frail you have made all flesh.

⁴⁸Who can live and not see death? *who can save himself from the power of the grave?

⁴⁹Where, Lord, are your loving-kindnesses of old, *which you promised David in your faithfulness?

⁵⁰Remember, Lord, how your servant is mocked, *how I carry in my bosom the taunts of many peoples,

⁵¹The taunts your enemies have hurled, O Lord, *which they hurled at the heels of your anointed.

⁵²Blessed be the Lord for evermore! *Amen, I say, Amen.