ACV - Psalms - 89

89:1  I will sing of the loving kindness of Jehovah forever. With my mouth I will make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

89:2  For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever. Thy faithfulness thou will establish in the very heavens.

89:3  I have made a covenant with my chosen. I have sworn to David my servant:

89:4  Thy seed I will establish forever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

89:5  And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah, thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the sanctified.

89:6  For who in the clouds can be compared to Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like Jehovah,

89:7  a God very awesome in the council of the holy ones, and to be feared above all those who are round about him?

89:8  O Jehovah God of hosts, who is a mighty one like thee, O Jehovah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.

89:9  Thou rule the pride of the sea. When the waves of it arise, thou still them.

89:10  Thou have broken Rahab in pieces, as a wounded man. Thou have scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.

89:11  The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine, the world and the fullness of it; thou have founded them.

89:12  The north and the south, thou have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.

89:13  Thou have a mighty arm. Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

89:14  Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne. Loving kindness and truth go before thy face.

89:15  Blessed is the people who know the joyful sound. They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.

89:16  In thy name do they rejoice all the day, and in thy righteousness are they exalted.

89:17  For thou are the glory of their strength, and in thy favor our horn shall be exalted.

89:18  For our shield belongs to Jehovah, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.

89:19  Then thou spoke in a vision to thy sanctified, and said, I have laid help upon a mighty man. I have exalted a chosen man out of the people.

89:20  I have found David my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him,

89:21  with whom my hand shall be established. My arm also shall strengthen him.

89:22  The enemy shall not exact from him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

89:23  And I will beat down his adversaries before him, and smite those who hate him,

89:24  but my faithfulness and my loving kindness shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

89:25  I will also set his hand on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.

89:26  He shall cry to me, Thou are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

89:27  I also will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

89:28  I will keep my loving kindness for him for evermore. And my covenant shall stand fast with him.

89:29  I will also make his seed to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

89:30  If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in my ordinances,

89:31  if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments,

89:32  then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes,

89:33  but my loving kindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

89:34  I will not break my covenant, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

89:35  I have sworn once by my holiness; I will not lie to David.

89:36  His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.

89:37  It shall be established forever as the moon, and as the faithful witness in the sky. Selah.

89:38  But thou have cast off and rejected. Thou have been angry with thine anointed.

89:39  Thou have abhorred the covenant of thy servant. Thou have profaned his crown to the ground.

89:40  Thou have broken down all his hedges. Thou have brought his strongholds to ruin.

89:41  All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

89:42  Thou have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. Thou have made all his enemies to rejoice.

89:43  Yea, thou turn back the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.

89:44  Thou have made his brightness to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

89:45  The days of his youth thou have shortened. Thou have covered him with shame. Selah.

89:46  How long, O Jehovah? Will thou hide thyself forever? Shall thy wrath burn like fire?

89:47  O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!

89:48  What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

89:49  Lord, where are thy former loving kindnesses, which thou swore to David in thy faithfulness?

89:50  Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants, how I bear in my bosom all the mighty peoples,

89:51  with which thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, with which they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

89:52  Blessed be Jehovah for evermore. Truly, and Truly.