Psalms 89 The covenant between God and David is remembered, so that God may deliver his people from present evils

 Psalms 89

The covenant between God and David is remembered, so that God may deliver his people from present evils

1 I will sing of the lovingkindness of the Lord forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

2 For I have said, "Your lovingkindness shall be built up forever; you will establish your faithfulness in the heavens, saying,

3 I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant, 

"4 I will establish your descendants forever, and build up your throne to all generations."

5 The heavens will praise your wonders, O Lord, your faithfulness in the assembly of the saints.

6 For who in the heavens can be compared to the Lord? Who is like the Lord among the sons of the mighty?

7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and greatly to be revered by all who are around him. 

8 O Lord God Almighty, who is strong like you, O Lord, with your faithfulness all around you?

9 You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.

10 You have broken Rahab as one slain; you have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

11 The heavens are yours, the earth is yours; the world and its fullness you have founded.

12 The north and the south you created; Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

13 You have a mighty arm; strong is your hand, and high is your right hand.

14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; mercy and truth go before your face.

15 Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound; they will walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance. 

16 In your name they rejoice all the day, and in your righteousness they exalt themselves.

17 For you are the glory of their strength; and by your favor our horn will be exalted.

18 For the Lord is our defense, the Holy One of Israel is our King.

19 Then you spoke in vision of your Holy One, and said, "I have helped one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people."

20 I have found David my servant; I have anointed him with my holy oil.

21 My hand will be established with him, and my arm will strengthen him.

22 The enemy will not vex him, nor will the son of wickedness afflict him.

23 I will beat down his enemies before him, and I will strike down those who hate him.

24 My faithfulness and my lovingkindness will be with him, and in my name his horn will be exalted. 25 I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.

26 He will call upon me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

27 Therefore I will give him the place of the firstborn; I will make him higher than the kings of the earth.

28 My mercy I will maintain for him forever, and my covenant shall stand firm with him.

29 I will establish his offspring forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

30 If his children forsake my law and do not walk in my ordinances,

31 If they break my statutes and do not keep my commandments,

32 Then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

33 Yet I will not utterly take away my mercy from him, nor will I fail in my faithfulness. 

34 I will not break my covenant, nor alter the word that has gone out of my lips.

35 I have once sworn in my holiness that I will not lie to David.

36 His offspring will endure forever, and his throne will be like the sun before me;

37 He will be established forever like the moon, and the witness in heaven is faithful.

38 But you have rejected and hated him; you were wroth with your anointed.

39 You have abhorred the covenant of your servant; you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

40 You have broken down all his walls; you have destroyed his fortified buildings.

41 All who pass by him plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies rejoice. 

43 You have also blunted the edge of his sword, and have not sustained him in battle.

44 You have caused his splendor to cease, and cast his throne to the ground.

45 You have shortened the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame.

46 How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your anger burn like fire?

47 Remember how short my days are; why would you create all the children of men in vain?

48 What man is there who lives and does not see death? Or who delivers his soul from the power of the unseen world?

49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth?

50 Remember, O Lord, the reproach of your servants; and how I bear in my bosom the scorn of all the mighty peoples: 

51 With which, O Lord, your enemies have slandered, with which they have slandered the steps of your anointed.

 52 Blessed be the Lord forever. Amen, and Amen.