1 Maschil. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.
2 \89:1\My song will be of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make his faith clear to all generations.
3 \89:2\For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens.
4 \89:3\I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant;
5 \89:4\I will make your seed go on for ever, your kingdom will be strong through all generations. (Selah.)
6 \89:5\In heaven let them give praise for your wonders, O Lord; and your unchanging faith among the saints.
7 \89:6\For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?
8 \89:7\God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him.
9 \89:8\O Lord God of armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you.
10 \89:9\You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.
11 \89:10\Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters.
12 \89:11\Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.
13 \89:12\You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name.
14 \89:13\Yours is an arm of power; strong is your hand and high your right hand.
15 \89:14\The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.
16 \89:15\Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.
17 \89:16\In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.
18 \89:17\For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up.
19 \89:18\For our breastplate is the Lord; and our king is the Holy One of Israel's.
20 \89:19\Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people.
21 \89:20\I have made discovery of David my servant; I have put my holy oil on his head.
22 \89:21\My hand will be his support; my arm will give him strength.
23 \89:22\The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil.
24 \89:23\I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.
25 \89:24\But my faith and my mercy will be with him; and in my name will his horn be lifted up.
26 \89:25\I will put his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
27 \89:26\He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.
28 \89:27\And I will make him the first of my sons, most high over the kings of the earth.
29 \89:28\I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed.
30 \89:29\His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens.
31 \89:30\If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;
32 \89:31\If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;
33 \89:32\Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.
34 \89:33\But I will not take away my mercy from him, and will not be false to my faith.
35 \89:34\I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.
36 \89:35\I have made an oath once by my holy name, that I will not be false to David.
37 \89:36\His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.
38 \89:37\It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. (Selah.)
39 \89:38\But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection.
40 \89:39\You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.
41 \89:40\All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.
42 \89:41\All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.
43 \89:42\You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him.
44 \89:43\His sword is turned back; you have not been his support in the fight.
45 \89:44\You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth.
46 \89:45\You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. (Selah.)
47 \89:46\How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?
48 \89:47\See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?
49 \89:48\What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)
50 \89:49\Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?
51 \89:50\Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart;
52 \89:51\The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.
53 \89:52\Let the Lord be praised for ever. So be it, So be it.
1 I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah 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 wilt 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 Jehovah;
Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
6 For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah?
Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Jehovah,
7 A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones,
And to be feared above all them that are round about him?
8 O Jehovah God of hosts,
Who is a mighty one, like unto thee, O Jehovah?
And thy faithfulness is round about thee.
9 Thou rulest the pride 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 the arm of thy strength.
11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine:
The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
12 The north and the south, thou hast created them:
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.
13 Thou hast a mighty arm;
Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne:
Lovingkindness and truth go before thy face.
15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound:
They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.
16 In thy name do they rejoice all the day;
And in thy righteousness are they exalted.
17 For thou art the glory of their strength;
And in thy favor our horn shall be exalted.
18 For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah;
And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints,
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 from him,
Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
23 And I will beat down his adversaries before him,
And smite them that hate him.
24 But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be with him;
And in my name shall his horn be exalted.
25 I will set his hand also on the sea,
And his right hand on the rivers.
26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father,
My God, and the rock of my salvation.
27 I also will make him my first-born,
The highest of the kings of the earth.
28 My lovingkindness 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 mine ordinances;
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 But 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:
I will not lie unto David:
36 His seed shall endure for ever,
And his throne as the sun before me.
37 It shall be established for ever as the moon,
And as the faithful witness in the sky. [Selah
38 But thou hast cast off and rejected,
Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
39 Thou hast abhorred 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 strongholds to ruin.
41 All that pass by the way rob him:
He is become a reproach to his neighbors.
42 Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries;
Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
43 Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword,
And hast not made him to stand in the battle.
44 Thou hast made his brightness 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, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever?
How long shall thy wrath burn like fire?
47 Oh remember how short my time is:
For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
48 What man is he that shall live and not see death,
That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? [Selah
49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses,
Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?
50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants;
How I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty peoples,
51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah,
Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
52 Blessed be Jehovah for evermore.
Amen, and Amen.