Psalms 89

1I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah for ever: With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.● 2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.● 3I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant:● 4Thy seed will I establish for ever, And build up thy throne to all generations. Selah● 5And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah; Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.● 6For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Jehovah,● 7A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, And to be feared above all them that are round about him?● 8O Jehovah God of hosts, Who is a mighty one, like unto thee, O Jehovah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.● 9Thou rulest the pride of the sea: When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.● 10Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.● 11The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.● 12The north and the south, thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.● 13Thou hast a mighty arm; Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.● 14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne: Lovingkindness and truth go before thy face.● 15Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.● 16In thy name do they rejoice all the day; And in thy righteousness are they exalted.● 17For thou art the glory of their strength; And in thy favor our horn shall be exalted.● 18For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah; And our king to the Holy One of Israel.● 19Then 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.● 20I have found David my servant; With my holy oil have I anointed him:● 21With whom my hand shall be established; Mine arm also shall strengthen him.● 22The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.● 23And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And smite them that hate him.● 24But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be with him; And in my name shall his horn be exalted.● 25I will set his hand also on the sea, And his right hand on the rivers.● 26He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.● 27I also will make him `my' first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth.● 28My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him.● 29His seed also will I make to endure for ever, And his throne as the days of heaven.● 30If his children forsake my law, And walk not in mine ordinances;● 31If they break my statutes, And keep not my commandments;● 32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes.● 33But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.● 34My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.● 35Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David:● 36His seed shall endure for ever, And his throne as the sun before me.● 37It shall be established for ever as the moon, And `as' the faithful witness in the sky. Selah● 38But thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.● 39Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown `by casting it' to the ground.● 40Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.● 41All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors.● 42Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries; Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.● 43Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast not made him to stand in the battle.● 44Thou hast made his brightness to cease, And cast his throne down to the ground.● 45The days of his youth hast thou shortened: Thou hast covered him with shame. Selah● 46How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? `How long' shall thy wrath burn like fire?● 47Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!● 48What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah● 49Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?● 50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom `the reproach of' all the mighty peoples,● 51Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.● 52Blessed be Jehovah for evermore. Amen, and Amen. Psalm 90 A Prayer of Moses the man of God.●