LEB - Psalms - 89

89:1  I will sing forever of Yahweh’s acts of loyal love. ⌞From generation to generation⌟ I will make known your faithfulness with my mouth.

89:2  For I say, “Forever your loyal love is built up. The heavens you have established with your faithfulness in them.”

89:3  “I made a covenant with my chosen one; I swore an oath to David my servant:

89:4  ‘I will establish your descendants forever, and I will build up your throne ⌞from generation to generation⌟.’ ” Selah

89:5  And so the heavens will praise your wonderful deed, O Yahweh, even your faithfulness, in the assembly of the holy ones.

89:6  For who in the sky is equal to Yahweh? Who is like Yahweh among the sons of God,

89:7  a God feared greatly in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all surrounding him?

89:8  O Yahweh God of hosts, who is mighty like you, O Yah, with your faithfulness surrounding you?

89:9  You are ruling the surging of the sea. When its waves rise, ⌞you yourself still⌟ them.

89:10  ⌞You yourself crushed⌟ Rahab like one who is slain; you scattered your enemies with your strong arm.

89:11  The heavens are yours, the earth yours as well, the world with its fullness, because you founded them.

89:12  North and south, you created them; Tabor and Hermon shout joyfully over your name.

89:13  You have a mighty arm; Your hand is strong; your right hand reaches high.

89:14  Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loyal love and faithfulness come before your face.

89:15  Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout; O Yahweh, they walk about in the light of your countenance.

89:16  In your name they rejoice all the day, and in your righteousness they rise up.

89:17  For you are the glory of their strength, and by your favor our horn rises up,

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

89:19  Formerly you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones, and said, “I have bestowed help on a mighty man; I have exalted one chosen from the people.

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

89:21  with whom my hand will be steadfast. Surely my arm will strengthen him.

89:22  The enemy will not deceive him, and no ⌞evil man⌟ will afflict him.

89:23  But I will crush his adversaries before him, and I will strike those who hate him.

89:24  And so my faithfulness and my loyal love will be with him, and in my name his horn will rise up.

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

89:26  He will call out to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.’

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

89:28  Forever I will keep my loyal love for him, and my covenant will be reliable for him.

89:29  I will also establish his offspring forever, and his throne as the days of the heavens.

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

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

89:32  then I will punish their transgression with a rod, and their guilt with wounds.

89:33  But I will not break off my loyal love from him, and I will not be false against my faithfulness.

89:34  I will not defile my covenant, or alter what proceeded from my lips.

89:35  Once I have sworn by my holiness, ‘I will surely not lie to David,

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

89:37  Like the moon it will be steadfast forever, and like an enduring witness in the sky.’ ” Selah

89:38  But you have spurned and rejected; you are very angry with your anointed one.

89:39  You have repudiated the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dirt.

89:40  You have broken down all his walls; you have made his fortifications a ruin.

89:41  All passing along the road plunder him; he has become a taunt to his neighbors.

89:42  You have raised the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all his enemies rejoice.

89:43  You have also turned back the edge of his sword and have not helped him stand his ground in the battle.

89:44  You have made his splendor to cease, and cast his throne to the ground.

89:45  You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah

89:46  How long, O Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire forever?

89:47  Remember what my lifespan is. Remember for what vanity you have created all the children of humankind.

89:48  What man can live on and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the ⌞power⌟ of Sheol? Selah

89:49  Where are your former acts of loyal love, O Lord, that you swore to David by your faithfulness?

89:50  Remember, O Lord the taunting of your servants, how I bear in my bosom the taunts of all the many peoples,

89:51  by which your enemies taunt, O Yahweh, by which they taunt the steps of your anointed one.

89:52  Blessed be Yahweh forever. Amen and Amen.