Psalms 89:1-39 ▼

1 <V 88:1>The understanding of Ethan the Ezrahite. <V 88:2>I will sing the mercies of the Lord in eternity. I will announce your truth with my mouth, from generation to generation.

2 <V 88:3>For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. Your truth will be prepared there.

3 <V 88:4>I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant:

4 <V 88:5>I will prepare your offspring, even in eternity. And I will build up your throne, from generation to generation.

5 <V 88:6>The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, and also your truth, in the Church of the saints.

6 <V 88:7>For who among the clouds is equal to the Lord? Who among the sons of God is like God?

7 <V 88:8>God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him.

8 <V 88:9>O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you.

9 <V 88:10>You rule over the power of the sea, and you even mitigate the movement of its waves.

10 <V 88:11>You have humbled the arrogant one, like one who has been wounded. You have scattered your enemies with the arm of your strength.

11 <V 88:12>Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness.

12 <V 88:13>You created the north and the sea. Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name.

13 <V 88:14>Your arm acts with power. Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted.

14 <V 88:15>Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face.

15 <V 88:16>Blessed is the people that knows jubilation. They will walk in the light of your countenance, O Lord,

16 <V 88:17>and they will exult in your name all day long, and they will be exalted in your justice.

17 <V 88:18>For you are the glory of their virtue, and in your goodness, our horn will be exalted.

18 <V 88:19>For our assumption is of the Lord, and it is of our king, the holy one of Israel.

19 <V 88:20>Then you spoke in a vision to your holy ones, and you said: I have stationed help with the powerful one, and I have exalted the elect one from my people.

20 <V 88:21>I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil.

21 <V 88:22>For my hand will assist him, and my arm will fortify him.

22 <V 88:23>The enemy will have no advantage over him, nor will the son of iniquity be positioned to harm him.

23 <V 88:24>And I will cut down his enemies before his face. And those who hate him, I will turn to flight.

24 <V 88:25>And my truth and my mercy will be with him. And his horn will be exalted in my name.

25 <V 88:26>And I will place his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.

26 <V 88:27>He will invoke me: “You are my father, my God, and the support of my salvation.”

27 <V 88:28>And I will make him the first-born, preeminent before the kings of the earth.

28 <V 88:29>I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, and my covenant for him faithfully.

29 <V 88:30>And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, and his throne like the days of heaven.

30 <V 88:31>But if his sons abandon my law, and if they do not walk in my judgments,

31 <V 88:32>if they profane my justices, and if they do not keep my commandments:

32 <V 88:33>I will visit their iniquities with a rod, and their sins with a beating.

33 <V 88:34>But I will not scatter my mercy from him, and I will not do harm to my truth.

34 <V 88:35>And I will not profane my covenant, and I will not make void that which proceeds from my lips.

35 <V 88:36>I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David,

36 <V 88:37>his offspring will remain for eternity. And his throne will be like the sun in my sight,

37 <V 88:38>and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven.

38 <V 88:39>Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, you have pushed away, my Christ.

39 <V 88:40>You have overthrown the covenant of your servant. You have profaned his sanctuary on earth.