Psalms 89:1-39 ▼

1 A wyse instruction of Ethan the Ezrachite. I wyll sing alwayes of the mercy of God: with my mouth I wyll make knowen thy trueth from one generation to another.

2 For I sayde, mercy shall for euer endure: thou hast established thy trueth in the heauens.

3 I haue made a couenaunt with my chosen: I haue sworne vnto Dauid my seruaunt.

4 I wyll establishe thy seede for euer: and buylde vp thy throne from generation to generation. Selah.

5 O God, the very heauens shall confesse thy wonderous workes: and thy trueth in the congregation of saintes.

6 For who is he in the cloudes that shal matche God: and who is like vnto God amongst the children gods?

7 God is very terrible in the assemblie of saintes: and to be feared aboue al them that are about him.

8 O God, Lorde of hoastes, who is like vnto thee a most mightie Lorde: and thy trueth is on euery side thee.

9 Thou rulest the ragyng of the sea: when her waues aryse, thou delayest them.

10 Thou hast brought Egypt in so bad a case as if it were wounded: thou hast scattered thyne enemies abrode with thy mightie arme.

11 The heauens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast layde the foundation of the rounde worlde, and of all the plentie that is therin.

12 Thou hast made the north and the south: Tabor and Hermon do reioyce in thy name.

13 Thou hast a mightie arme: thy hand is strong, and thy right hand is exalted.

14 Iustice and iudgement is the foundation of thy throne: mercy and trueth shall go before thy face.

15 Blessed is the people that knoweth a triumphant noyse: O God, they shall walke in the light of thy countenaunce.

16 They shall make them selues merie dayly in thy name: and in thy righteousnes they shall exalt them selues.

17 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy louing kindnes thou wylt lift vp our hornes.

18 For our shielde is of God: and our king is of the most holy of Israel.

19 Thou hast spoken somtimes in visions vnto thy saintes: and hast sayde, I haue added ayde vpon the mightie, I haue exalted one chose out of the people.

20 I haue founde Dauid my seruaunt: I haue annoynted him with myne holye oyle.

21 Therfore my hande shalbe assured vnto him: and mine arme shall strengthen hym.

22 The enemie shal not be able to do him violence: the sonne of wickednesse shall not afflict hym.

23 I wyll breake into peeces his foes before his face: and ouerthrowe them that hate hym.

24 My trueth also and my mercy shalbe with hym: and in my name shall his horne be exalted.

25 I wyll set also his dominion in the sea: and his right hande in the fluddes.

26 He shall make inuocation vnto me: saying thou art my father O my God, and my fortresse of saluation.

27 And I will make him my first borne: in higher state then kinges of the earth.

28 My mercy wyll I kepe for hym euermore: and my couenaunt shal stand fast with hym.

29 His seede also wyll I make to endure for euer: and his throne as the dayes of heauen.

30 But if his chyldren forsake my lawe, and walke not in my iudgement:

31 (89:30) if they breake my statutes, and kepe not my commaundementes,

32 (89:31) I will then visite their transgressions with a rodde: and their wickednesse with stripes.

33 (89:32) Neuerthelesse, my louyng kyndnesse I wyll not take vtterly from hym: I wyl not breake my promise with hym.

34 (89:33) I wyll not violate my couenaunt: nor alter the thyng that is gone out of my lyppes.

35 (89:34) I haue sworne once by my holynesse: that I wyll not speake an vntrueth vnto Dauid.

36 (89:35) His seede shall endure for euer: and his throne shalbe as the sunne before me.

37 (89:36) And as the moone which shall continue for euermore: and shalbe a faithful witnesse in heauen. Selah.

38 (89:37) But thou hast abhorred & forsake thine annoynted: & art sore displeased at him.

39 (89:38) Thou hast broken the couenaunt of thy seruaunt: thou hast disgraced his crowne, castyng it on the grounde.