CPDV - Psalms - 88

88:1  The understanding of Ethan the Ezrahite.

88:2  I will sing the mercies of the Lord in eternity. I will announce your truth with my mouth, from generation to generation.

88:3  For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. Your truth will be prepared there.

88:4  I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant:

88:5  I will prepare your offspring, even in eternity. And I will build up your throne, from generation to generation.

88:6  The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, and also your truth, in the Church of the saints.

88:7  For who among the clouds is equal to the Lord? Who among the sons of God is like God?

88:8  God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him.

88:9  O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you.

88:10  You rule over the power of the sea, and you even mitigate the movement of its waves.

88:11  You have humbled the arrogant one, like one who has been wounded. You have scattered your enemies with the arm of your strength.

88:12  Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness.

88:13  You created the north and the sea. Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name.

88:14  Your arm acts with power. Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted.

88:15  Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face.

88:16  Blessed is the people that knows jubilation. They will walk in the light of your countenance, O Lord,

88:17  and they will exult in your name all day long, and they will be exalted in your justice.

88:18  For you are the glory of their virtue, and in your goodness, our horn will be exalted.

88:19  For our assumption is of the Lord, and it is of our king, the holy one of Israel.

88:20  Then you spoke in a vision to your holy ones, and you said: I have stationed help with the powerful one, and I have exalted the elect one from my people.

88:21  I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil.

88:22  For my hand will assist him, and my arm will fortify him.

88:23  The enemy will have no advantage over him, nor will the son of iniquity be positioned to harm him.

88:24  And I will cut down his enemies before his face. And those who hate him, I will turn to flight.

88:25  And my truth and my mercy will be with him. And his horn will be exalted in my name.

88:26  And I will place his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.

88:27  He will invoke me: “You are my father, my God, and the support of my salvation.”

88:28  And I will make him the first-born, preeminent before the kings of the earth.

88:29  I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, and my covenant for him faithfully.

88:30  And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, and his throne like the days of heaven.

88:31  But if his sons abandon my law, and if they do not walk in my judgments,

88:32  if they profane my justices, and if they do not keep my commandments:

88:33  I will visit their iniquities with a rod, and their sins with a beating.

88:34  But I will not scatter my mercy from him, and I will not do harm to my truth.

88:35  And I will not profane my covenant, and I will not make void that which proceeds from my lips.

88:36  I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David,

88:37  his offspring will remain for eternity. And his throne will be like the sun in my sight,

88:38  and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven.

88:39  Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, you have pushed away, my Christ.

88:40  You have overthrown the covenant of your servant. You have profaned his sanctuary on earth.

88:41  You have destroyed all his fences. You have made his territory dreadful.

88:42  All who pass by the way have plundered him. He has become a disgrace to his neighbors.

88:43  You have exalted the right hand of those who oppress him. You have brought joy to all his enemies.

88:44  You have diverted the help of his sword, and you have not assisted him in battle.

88:45  You have torn him away from cleansing, and you have smashed his throne down to the ground.

88:46  You have reduced the days of his time. You have flooded him with confusion.

88:47  How long, O Lord? Will you turn away unto the end? Will your wrath flare up like a fire?

88:48  Remember what my substance is. For could you really have appointed all the sons of men in vain?

88:49  Who is the man that will live, and yet not see death? Who will rescue his own soul from the hand of the underworld?

88:50  O Lord, where are your mercies of antiquity, just as you swore to David in your truth?

88:51  Be mindful, O Lord, of the disgrace of your servants (which I have sustained in my sinews) among many nations.

88:52  With these, your enemies have reproached you, O Lord; with these, they have reproached the commutation of your Christ.

88:53  Blessed is the Lord for all eternity. Amen. Amen.