Psalm 89

Your love, O LORD, for ever will I sing; *

from age to age my mouth will proclaim your faithfulness.

For I am persuaded that your love is established for ever; *

you have set your faithfulness firmly in the heavens.

"I have made a covenant with my chosen one; *

I have sworn an oath to David my servant:

'I will establish your line for ever, *

and preserve your throne for all generations.'"

The heavens bear witness to your wonders, O LORD, *

and to your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones;

For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? *

who is like the LORD among the gods?

God is much to be feared in the council of the holy ones, *

great and terrible to all those round about him.

Who is like you, LORD God of hosts? *

O mighty LORD, your faithfulness is all around you.

You rule the raging of the sea *

and still the surging of its waves.

You have crushed Rahab of the deep with a deadly wound; *

you have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

Yours are the heavens; the earth also is yours; *

you laid the foundations of the world and all that is in it.

You have made the north and the south; *

Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your Name.

You have a mighty arm; *

strong is your hand and high is your right hand.

Righteousness and justice are the foundations of your throne; *

love and truth go before your face.

Happy are the people who know the festal shout! *

they walk, O LORD, in the light of your presence.

They rejoice daily in your Name; *

they are jubilant in your righteousness.

For you are the glory of their strength, *

and by your favor our might is exalted.

Truly, the LORD is our ruler; *

The Holy One of Israel is our King.

You spoke once in a vision and said to your faithful people: *

"I have set the crown upon a warrior

and have exalted one chosen out of the people.

I have found David my servant; *

with my holy oil have I anointed him.

My hand will hold him fast *

and my arm will make him strong.

No enemy shall deceive him, *

nor any wicked man bring him down.

I will crush his foes before him *

and strike down those who hate him.

My faithfulness and love shall be with him, *

and he shall be victorious through my Name.

I shall make his dominion extend *

from the Great Sea to the River.

He will say to me, 'You are my Father, *

my God, and the rock of my salvation.'

I will make him my firstborn *

and higher than the kings of the earth.

I will keep my love for him for ever, *

and my covenant will stand firm for him.

I will establish his line for ever *

and his throne as the days of heaven."

"If his children forsake my law *

and do not walk according to my judgments;

If they break my statutes *

and do not keep my commandments;

I will punish their transgressions with a rod *

and their iniquities with the lash;

But I will not take my love from him, *

nor let my faithfulness prove false.

I will not break my covenant, *

nor change what has gone out of my lips.

Once for all I have sworn by my holiness: *

'I will not lie to David.

His line shall endure for ever *

and his throne as the sun before me;

It shall stand fast for evermore like the moon, *

the abiding witness in the sky.'"

But you have cast off and rejected your anointed; *

you have become enraged at him.

You have broken your covenant with your servant, *

defiled his crown, and hurled it to the ground.

You have breached all his walls *

and laid his strongholds in ruins.

All who pass by despoil him; *

he has become the scorn of his neighbors.

You have exalted the right hand of his foes *

and made all his enemies rejoice.

You have turned back the edge of his sword *

and have not sustained him in battle.

You have put an end to his splendor *

and cast his throne to the ground.

You have cut short the days of his youth *

and have covered him with shame.

How long will you hide yourself, O LORD?

will you hide yourself for ever? *

how long will your anger burn like fire?

Remember, LORD, how short life is, *

how frail you have made all flesh.

Who can live and not see death? *

who can save himself from the power of the grave?

Where, Lord, are your loving-kindnesses of old, *

which you promised David in your faithfulness?

Remember, Lord, how your servant is mocked, *

how I carry in my bosom the taunts of many peoples,

The taunts your enemies have hurled, O LORD, *

which they hurled at the heels of your anointed.

Blessed be the LORD for evermore! *

Amen, I say, Amen.