Psalm 89
1 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
[SUP]4 [/SUP]Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?
[SUP]7 [/SUP]God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
[SUP]9 [/SUP]Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
[SUP]14 [/SUP]Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.
[SUP]16 [/SUP]In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
[SUP]17 [/SUP]For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
[SUP]18 [/SUP]For the Lord is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
[SUP]19 [/SUP]Then 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.
[SUP]20 [/SUP]I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
[SUP]21 [/SUP]With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
[SUP]22 [/SUP]The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
[SUP]23 [/SUP]And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
[SUP]24 [/SUP]But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
[SUP]25 [/SUP]I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
[SUP]26 [/SUP]He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
[SUP]27 [/SUP]Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
[SUP]28 [/SUP]My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
[SUP]29 [/SUP]His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
[SUP]30 [/SUP]If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
[SUP]31 [/SUP]If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
[SUP]32 [/SUP]Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
[SUP]33 [/SUP]Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
[SUP]34 [/SUP]My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
[SUP]35 [/SUP]Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
[SUP]36 [/SUP]His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
[SUP]37 [/SUP]It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
[SUP]38 [/SUP]But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
[SUP]39 [/SUP]Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
[SUP]40 [/SUP]Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
[SUP]41 [/SUP]All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
[SUP]42 [/SUP]Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
[SUP]43 [/SUP]Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
[SUP]44 [/SUP]Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
[SUP]45 [/SUP]The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
[SUP]46 [/SUP]How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
[SUP]47 [/SUP]Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
[SUP]48 [/SUP]What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
[SUP]49 [/SUP]Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
[SUP]50 [/SUP]Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
[SUP]51 [/SUP]Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
[SUP]52 [/SUP]Blessed be the Lord for evermore. Amen, and Amen.