| 1 | I will sing of the mercy
and
loving-kindness of the Lord forever; with my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness from generation to generation. |
| 2 | For I have said, Mercy
and
loving-kindness shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness will You establish in the very heavens [unchangeable and perpetual]. |
| 3 | [You have said] I have made a
[a]covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant, |
| 4 | Your Seed I will establish forever, and I will build up your throne for all generations.
Selah
[pause, and calmly think of that]! |
| 5 | Let heaven (the angels) praise Your wonders, O Lord, Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones (the holy angels). |
| 6 | For who in the heavens can be compared to the Lord? Who among the mighty [heavenly beings] can be likened to the Lord, |
| 7 | A God greatly feared
and
revered in the council of the holy (angelic) ones, and to be feared
and
worshipfully revered above all those who are round about Him? |
| 8 | O Lord God of hosts, who is a mighty one like unto You, O Lord? And Your faithfulness is round about You [an essential part of You at all times]. |
| 9 | You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves arise, You still them. |
| 10 | You have broken Rahab (Egypt) in pieces; with Your mighty arm You have scattered Your enemies. |
| 11 | The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; the world and all that is in it, You have founded them. |
| 12 | The north and the south, You have created them; Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon joyously praise Your name. |
| 13 | You have a mighty arm; strong is Your hand, Your right hand is soaring high. |
| 14 | Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; mercy
and
loving-kindness and truth go before Your face. |
| 15 | Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are the people who know the joyful sound [who understand and appreciate the spiritual blessings symbolized by the feasts]; they walk, O Lord, in the light
and
favor of Your countenance! |
| 16 | In Your name they rejoice all the day, and in Your righteousness they are exalted. |
| 17 | For You are the glory of their strength [their proud adornment], and by Your favor our horn is exalted
and
we walk with uplifted faces! |
| 18 | For our shield belongs to the Lord, and our king to the Holy One of Israel. |
| 19 | Once You spoke in a vision to Your devoted ones and said, I have endowed one who is mighty [a hero, giving him the power to help—to be a champion for Israel]; I have exalted one chosen from among 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
and
ever abide; My arm also shall strengthen him. |
| 22 | The enemy shall not exact from him
or
do him violence
or
outwit him, nor shall the wicked afflict
and
humble him. |
| 23 | I will beat down his foes before his face and smite those who hate him. |
| 24 | My faithfulness and My mercy
and
loving-kindness shall be with him, and in My name shall his horn be exalted [great power and prosperity shall be conferred upon him]. |
| 25 | I will set his hand in control also on the [Mediterranean] Sea, and his right hand on the rivers [Euphrates with its tributaries]. |
| 26 | He shall cry to Me, You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation! |
| 27 | Also I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. |
| 28 | My mercy
and
loving-kindness will I keep for him forevermore, and My covenant shall stand fast
and
be faithful with him. |
| 29 | His
[b]Offspring also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. |
| 30 | If his children forsake My law and walk not in My ordinances, |
| 31 | If they break
or
profane My statutes and keep not My commandments, |
| 32 | Then will I punish their transgression with the rod [of chastisement], and their iniquity with stripes. |
| 33 | Nevertheless, My loving-kindness will I not break off from him, nor allow My faithfulness to fail [to lie and be false to him]. |
| 34 | My covenant will I not break
or
profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips. |
| 35 | Once [for all] have I sworn by My holiness, which cannot be violated; I will not lie to David: |
| 36 | His Offspring shall endure forever, and his throne [shall continue] as the sun before Me. |
| 37 | It shall be established forever as the moon, the faithful witness in the heavens.
Selah
[pause, and calmly think of that]! |
| 38 | But [in apparent contradiction to all this] You [even You the faithful Lord] have cast off and rejected; You have been full of wrath against Your anointed. |
| 39 | You have despised
and
loathed and renounced the covenant with Your servant; You have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. |
| 40 | You have broken down all his hedges
and
his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin. |
| 41 | All who pass along the road spoil
and
rob him; he has become the scorn
and
reproach of his neighbors. |
| 42 | You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice. |
| 43 | Moreover, You have turned back the edge of his sword and have not made him to stand in battle. |
| 44 | You have made his glory
and
splendor to cease and have hurled to the ground his throne. |
| 45 | The days of his youth have You shortened; You have covered him with shame.
Selah
[pause, and calmly think of that]! |
| 46 | How long, O Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? How long shall Your wrath burn like fire? |
| 47 | O [earnestly] remember how short my time is
and
what a mere fleeting life mine is. For what emptiness, falsity, futility,
and
frailty You have created all men! |
| 48 | What man can live and shall not see death, or can deliver himself from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the place of the dead)?
Selah
[pause, and calmly consider that]! |
| 49 | Lord, where are Your former loving-kindnesses [shown in the reigns of David and Solomon], which You swore to David in Your faithfulness? |
| 50 | Remember, Lord,
and
earnestly imprint [on Your heart] the reproach of Your servants, scorned
and
insulted, how I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many
and
mighty peoples, |
| 51 | With which Your enemies have taunted, O Lord, with which they have mocked the footsteps of Your anointed. |
| 52 | Blessed be the Lord forevermore! Amen and Amen. |
Cross references:
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Psalm 89:4 : Isa. 9:7; Luke 1:32, 33; Gal. 3:16.
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Psalm 89:20 : Acts 13:22.
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Psalm 89:27 : Rev. 1:5.
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Psalm 89:29 : Isa. 9:7; Gal. 3:16.
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Psalm 89:32 : II Sam. 7:14.
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Psalm 89:36 : Isa. 9:7; Gal. 3:16.
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Psalm 89:37 : Rev. 1:5; 3:14.
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