Psalms Chapter 89
| 1 | I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. | 2 | For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens. | 3 | I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, | 4 | Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah. | 5 | And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. | 6 | For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? | 7 | God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. | 8 | O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? | 9 | Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. | 10 | Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. | 11 | The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. | 12 | The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. | 13 | Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. | 14 | Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. | 15 | Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance. | 16 | In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. | 17 | For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted. | 18 | For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king. | 19 | Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. | 20 | I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: | 21 | With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him. | 22 | The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. | 23 | And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. | 24 | But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. | 25 | I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. | 26 | He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. | 27 | Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. | 28 | My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. | 29 | His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. | 30 | If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; | 31 | If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; | 32 | Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. | 33 | Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. | 34 | My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. | 35 | Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. | 36 | His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. | 37 | It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah. | 38 | But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. | 39 | Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. | 40 | Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin. | 41 | All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours. | 42 | Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. | 43 | Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle. | 44 | Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. | 45 | The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah. | 46 | How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire? | 47 | Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? | 48 | What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. | 49 | Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth? | 50 | Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; | 51 | Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. | 52 | Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen. |