YLT - Psalms - 89

89:1  An instruction, by Ethan the Ezrahite. Of the kind acts of Jehovah, to the age I sing, To all generations I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth,

89:2  For I said, `To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.'

89:3  I have made a covenant for My chosen, I have sworn to David My servant:

89:4  `Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah.

89:5  and the heavens confess Thy wonders, O Jehovah, Thy faithfulness also is in an assembly of holy ones.

89:6  For who in the sky, Compareth himself to Jehovah? Is like to Jehovah among sons of the mighty?

89:7  God is very terrible, In the secret counsel of His holy ones, And fearful over all surrounding Him.

89:8  O Jehovah, God of Hosts, Who is like Thee--a strong Jah? And Thy faithfulness is round about Thee.

89:9  Thou art ruler over the pride of the sea, In the lifting up of its billows Thou dost restrain them.

89:10  Thou hast bruised Rahab, as one wounded. With the arm of Thy strength Thou hast scattered Thine enemies.

89:11  Thine are the heavens--the earth also is Thine, The habitable world and its fulness, Thou hast founded them.

89:12  North and south Thou hast appointed them, Tabor and Hermon in Thy name do sing.

89:13  Thou hast an arm with might, Strong is Thy hand--high Thy right hand.

89:14  Righteousness and judgment Are the fixed place of Thy throne, Kindness and truth go before Thy face.

89:15  O the happiness of the people knowing the shout, O Jehovah, in the light of Thy face they walk habitually.

89:16  In Thy name they rejoice all the day, And in Thy righteousness they are exalted,

89:17  For the beauty of their strength art Thou, And in Thy good will is our horn exalted,

89:18  For of Jehovah is our shield, And of the Holy One of Israel our king.

89:19  Then Thou hast spoken in vision, To Thy saint, yea, Thou sayest, I have placed help upon a mighty one, Exalted a chosen one 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 is established, My arm also doth strengthen him.

89:22  An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not.

89:23  And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague,

89:24  And My faithfulness and kindness are with him, And in My name is his horn exalted.

89:25  And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand.

89:26  He proclaimeth me: `Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.'

89:27  I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth.

89:28  To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant is stedfast with him.

89:29  And I have set his seed for ever, And his throne as the days of the heavens.

89:30  If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;

89:31  If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep,

89:32  I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity,

89:33  And My kindness I break not from him, Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness.

89:34  I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.

89:35  Once I have sworn by My holiness, I lie not to David,

89:36  His seed is to the age, And his throne is as the sun before Me,

89:37  As the moon it is established--to the age, And the witness in the sky is stedfast. Selah.

89:38  And Thou, Thou hast cast off, and dost reject, Thou hast shown Thyself wroth With Thine anointed,

89:39  Hast rejected the covenant of Thy servant, Thou hast polluted to the earth his crown,

89:40  Thou hast broken down all his hedges, Thou hast made his fenced places a ruin.

89:41  Spoiled him have all passing by the way, He hath been a reproach to his neighbours,

89:42  Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries, Thou hast caused all his enemies to rejoice.

89:43  Also--Thou turnest back the sharpness of his sword, And hast not established him in battle,

89:44  Hast caused him to cease from his brightness, And his throne to the earth hast cast down.

89:45  Thou hast shortened the days of his youth, Hast covered him over with shame. Selah.

89:46  Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire?

89:47  Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

89:48  Who is the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

89:49  Where are Thy former kindnesses, O Lord. Thou hast sworn to David in Thy faithfulness,

89:50  Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Thy servants, I have borne in my bosom all the strivings of the peoples,

89:51  Wherewith Thine enemies reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached The steps of Thine anointed.

89:52  Blessed is Jehovah to the age. Amen, and amen!