Psalms, 89

Masʹkil.^*1 Of Eʹthan the Ezʹra·hite.

¹ Jehovah’s expressions of loving-kindness^*1 I will sing about even to time indefinite. For generation after generation I shall make your faithfulness known with my mouth.

² For I have said: “Loving-kindness will stay built even to time indefinite; As for the heavens, you keep your faithfulness firmly established in them.”

³ “I have concluded^*1 a covenant toward my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant,

⁴ ‘Even to time indefinite I shall firmly establish your seed,^*1 And I will build your throne to generation after generation.’” Seʹlah.

⁵ And the heavens will laud your marvelous act, O Jehovah, Yes, your faithfulness in the congregation^*1 of the holy ones.

⁶ For who in the skies can be compared to Jehovah? Who can resemble Jehovah among the sons of God?^*1

⁷ God^*1 is to be held in awe among the intimate group of holy ones; He is grand and fear-inspiring over all who are round about him.

⁸ O Jehovah God of armies, Who is vigorous like you, O Jah?^*1 And your faithfulness is all around you.

⁹ You are ruling over the swelling of the sea; When it raises up its waves you yourself calm them.

¹⁰ You yourself have crushed Raʹhab,^*1 even as someone slain. By the arm of your strength you have scattered your enemies.

¹¹ Heaven is yours, the earth also is yours; The productive land^*1 and what fills it—you yourself have founded them.

¹² The north and the south^*1—you yourself created them; Taʹbor and Herʹmon—in your name they cry out joyfully.

¹³ An arm with mightiness is yours, Your hand is strong, Your right hand is exalted.

¹⁴ Righteousness and judgment are the established place of your throne; Loving-kindness and trueness^*1 themselves come in before your face.

¹⁵ Happy are the people knowing the joyful shouting. O Jehovah, in the light of your face they keep walking.

¹⁶ In your name they are joyful all day long And in your righteousness they are exalted.

¹⁷ For you are the beauty of their strength; And by your goodwill our horn is exalted.

¹⁸ For our shield belongs to Jehovah, And our king belongs to the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹ At that time you spoke in a vision to your loyal ones, And you proceeded to say: “I have placed help upon a mighty one; I have exalted a chosen one from among the people.

²⁰ I have found David my servant; With my holy oil I have anointed him,

²¹ With whom my own hand will be firm, Whom my own arm also will strengthen.

²² No enemy will make exactions upon him, Neither will any son of unrighteousness afflict him.

²³ And from before him I crushed his adversaries to pieces, And to those intensely hating him I kept dealing out blows.

²⁴ And my faithfulness and my loving-kindness are with him, And in my name his horn is exalted.

²⁵ And on the sea I have put his hand And on the rivers his right hand.

²⁶ He himself calls out to me, ‘You are my Father, My God and the Rock of my salvation.’

²⁷ Also, I myself shall place him as firstborn, The most high of the kings of the earth.

²⁸ To time indefinite I shall preserve my loving-kindness toward him, And my covenant will be faithful^*1 to him.

²⁹ And I shall certainly set up his seed forever And his throne as the days of heaven.

³⁰ If his sons leave my law And in my judicial decisions they do not walk,

³¹ If they profane my own statutes And they do not keep my own commandments,

³² I must also turn my attention to their transgression even with a rod And to their error even with strokes.

³³ But my loving-kindness^*1 I shall not break off from him, Nor shall I prove false with regard to my faithfulness.

³⁴ I shall not profane my covenant, And the expression out of my lips I shall not change.

³⁵ Once I have sworn in my holiness, To David I will not tell lies.

³⁶ His seed itself will prove to be even to time indefinite, And his throne as the sun in front of me.

³⁷ As the moon it will be firmly established for time indefinite, And [as] a faithful witness in the skies.” Seʹlah.

³⁸ But you—you have cast off and you keep contemning; You have become furious toward your anointed one.^*1

³⁹ You have spurned the covenant of your servant; You have profaned his diadem to the very earth.

⁴⁰ You have broken down all his stone pens; You have laid his fortifications in ruin.

⁴¹ All those passing along the way have pillaged him; He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

⁴² You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; You have caused all his enemies to rejoice.

⁴³ What is more, you again treat his sword as a foe, And you have caused him not to gain ground in the battle.

⁴⁴ You have made [him] cease from his luster, And his throne you have hurled to the very earth.

⁴⁵ You have shortened the days of his youth; You have enwrapped him with shame. Seʹlah.

⁴⁶ How long, O Jehovah, will you keep yourself concealed? For all time? Will your rage keep on burning just like a fire?

⁴⁷ Remember of what duration of life I am. Is it all in vain that you have created all the sons of men?^*1

⁴⁸ What able-bodied man is there alive who will not see death? Can he provide escape for his soul from the hand of Sheʹol? Seʹlah.

⁴⁹ Where are your former acts of loving-kindness, O Jehovah,^*1 About which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

⁵⁰ Remember, O Jehovah,^*1 the reproach upon your servants, My carrying in my bosom [the reproach of] all the many peoples,

⁵¹ How your enemies have reproached, O Jehovah,^*1 How they have reproached the footprints of your anointed one.

⁵² Blessed be Jehovah^*1 to time indefinite. Amen and Amen.