OEBcth - Psalms - 89

89:1  I will sing evermore of the love of the Lord, proclaiming to all generations his faithfulness.

89:2  For your love you did promise to build up forever, your faithfulness firm as the heavens themselves.

89:3  “I have made with my chosen a covenant, and sworn to David my servant,

89:4  to establish his seed forever, and to build up his throne to all ages.” (Selah)

89:5  Then the holy assembly in heaven praised your marvellous faithfulness, Lord.

89:6  For who in the skies may compare with the Lord? Who is like the Lord among the gods?

89:7  A God to be feared in the holy assembly, awful and great above all who are round him.

89:8  O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty as you? Your strength and faithfulness, Lord, surround you.

89:9  You are the Lord of the raging sea: when its waves surge, it is you who still them.

89:10  It was you who did pierce and crush Rahab in pieces, and scatter your foes by your mighty arm.

89:11  Yours are the heavens, yours also the earth, the world and its fulness, it’s you who did found them.

89:12  The north and the south, it’s you have created them; Tabor and Hermon shout praise to your name.

89:13  You have an arm with the might of a hero; strong is your hand, high uplifted your right hand.

89:14  Justice and right are the base of your throne, kindness and faithfulness ever attend you.

89:15  Happy the people who know the glad shout, who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face.

89:16  They exult in your name all the day, and your righteousness they extol.

89:17  For you are our strength and our pride. Your favour will lift us to honour.

89:18  For the holy Lord of Israel keeps our defender and king.

89:19  In a vision of old you did speak in this way to the one whom you loved, “A crown I have set on the hero I chose to be over the people

89:20  I found my servant David, and anointed with holy oil.

89:21  My hand will be with him forever, my arm will give him strength.

89:22  No enemy will dare to assail him, nor the wicked to oppress him;

89:23  but his foes I will shatter before him, I will strike down those who hate him.

89:24  My loyal love shall attend him, and I will lift him to honour.

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

89:26  As for him, he will call me ‘My father, my God, and my rock of salvation.’

89:27  And I will make him my first-born, highest of kings on the earth.

89:28  My love will I keep for him ever, my covenant with him shall stand fast.

89:29  His line will I make everlasting, and his throne as the days of the heavens.

89:30  If his children forsake my law, and walk not as I have ordained;

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

89:32  I will punish their sin with the rod, their iniquity with scourges.

89:33  But my love will I not take from him, nor will I belie my faithfulness.

89:34  I will not profane my covenant by changing the word that has passed my lips.

89:35  Once have I solemnly sworn and I would not lie to David,

89:36  that his line should endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me,

89:37  firm as the moon which for ever and ever is fixed in the sky.” (Selah)

89:38  But you have cast off in contempt, and been furious with your anointed.

89:39  You have spurned the covenant with your servant, and his sacred crown dashed to the ground.

89:40  You have broken down all his walls, and laid his bulwarks in ruins.

89:41  All who pass on their way despoil him, the scorn of his neighbours is he now.

89:42  You have given his foes the victory, and made all his enemies glad.

89:43  You have turned back his sword from the foe, you did not lift him up in the battle.

89:44  The sceptre you took from his hand, and his throne you did hurl to the ground.

89:45  You have shortened the days of his youth, and covered him with shame. (Selah)

89:46  How long, Lord will you hide you forever? How long are the fires of your wrath to burn?

89:47  Remember, Lord, the shortness of life how fleeting you made all people.

89:48  Who can live without seeing death? Who can rescue their life from the clutch of Sheol? (Selah)

89:49  Where, Lord, is your kindness of old, which you in your faithfulness swore to David?

89:50  Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, how I bear in my heart the scorn of all nations

89:51  The scorn which your enemies hurl, O Lord, which they hurl at the footsteps of your anointed. Blest be the Lord, for ever and ever. Amen and Amen.