Psalm 89

 ¹I will sing of the mercies of the LORD 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 shalt 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 LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.

 ⁶For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?

 ⁷God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

 ⁸O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?

 ⁹Thou rulest the raging 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 thy strong arm.

 ¹¹The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

 ¹²The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.

 ¹³Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

 ¹⁴Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

 ¹⁵Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

 ¹⁶In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

 ¹⁷For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

 ¹⁸For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

 ¹⁹Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, 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 upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

 ²³And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

 ²⁴But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

 ²⁵I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.

 ²⁶He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

 ²⁷Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.

 ²⁸My mercy 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 my judgments;

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

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

 ³³Nevertheless 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 that 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 a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

 ³⁸But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

 ³⁹Thou hast made void 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 strong holds to ruin.

 ⁴¹All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

 ⁴²Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

 ⁴³Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

 ⁴⁴Thou hast made his glory 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, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

 ⁴⁷Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

 ⁴⁸What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

 ⁴⁹Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

 ⁵⁰Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;

 ⁵¹Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

 ⁵²Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.