Psalms 89
1 Ref An instruction, by Ethan the Ezrahite. Of the kind acts of Jehovah, to the age I sing, To all generations I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth,
2 Ref For I said, `To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.'
3 Ref I have made a covenant for My chosen, I have sworn to David My servant:
4 Ref `Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah.
5 Ref and the heavens confess Thy wonders, O Jehovah, Thy faithfulness also `is' in an assembly of holy ones.
6 Ref For who in the sky, Compareth himself to Jehovah? Is like to Jehovah among sons of the mighty?
7 Ref God is very terrible, In the secret counsel of His holy ones, And fearful over all surrounding Him.
8 Ref O Jehovah, God of Hosts, Who `is' like Thee -- a strong Jah? And Thy faithfulness `is' round about Thee.
9 Ref Thou `art' ruler over the pride of the sea, In the lifting up of its billows Thou dost restrain them.
10 Ref Thou hast bruised Rahab, as one wounded. With the arm of Thy strength Thou hast scattered Thine enemies.
11 Ref Thine `are' the heavens -- the earth also `is' Thine, The habitable world and its fulness, Thou hast founded them.
12 Ref North and south Thou hast appointed them, Tabor and Hermon in Thy name do sing.
13 Ref Thou hast an arm with might, Strong is Thy hand -- high Thy right hand.
14 Ref Righteousness and judgment `Are' the fixed place of Thy throne, Kindness and truth go before Thy face.
15 Ref O the happiness of the people knowing the shout, O Jehovah, in the light of Thy face they walk habitually.
16 Ref In Thy name they rejoice all the day, And in Thy righteousness they are exalted,
17 Ref For the beauty of their strength `art' Thou, And in Thy good will is our horn exalted,
18 Ref For of Jehovah `is' our shield, And of the Holy One of Israel our king.
19 Ref Then Thou hast spoken in vision, To Thy saint, yea, Thou sayest, I have placed help upon a mighty one, Exalted a chosen one out of the people,
20 Ref I have found David My servant, With My holy oil I have anointed him.
21 Ref With whom My hand is established, My arm also doth strengthen him.
22 Ref An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not.
23 Ref And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague,
24 Ref And My faithfulness and kindness `are' with him, And in My name is his horn exalted.
25 Ref And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand.
26 Ref He proclaimeth me: `Thou `art' my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.'
27 Ref I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth.
28 Ref To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant `is' stedfast with him.
29 Ref And I have set his seed for ever, And his throne as the days of the heavens.
30 Ref If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;
31 Ref If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep,
32 Ref I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity,
33 Ref And My kindness I break not from him, Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness.
34 Ref I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.
35 Ref Once I have sworn by My holiness, I lie not to David,
36 Ref His seed is to the age, And his throne `is' as the sun before Me,
37 Ref As the moon it is established -- to the age, And the witness in the sky is stedfast. Selah.
38 Ref And Thou, Thou hast cast off, and dost reject, Thou hast shown Thyself wroth With Thine anointed,
39 Ref Hast rejected the covenant of Thy servant, Thou hast polluted to the earth his crown,
40 Ref Thou hast broken down all his hedges, Thou hast made his fenced places a ruin.
41 Ref Spoiled him have all passing by the way, He hath been a reproach to his neighbours,
42 Ref Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries, Thou hast caused all his enemies to rejoice.
43 Ref Also -- Thou turnest back the sharpness of his sword, And hast not established him in battle,
44 Ref Hast caused `him' to cease from his brightness, And his throne to the earth hast cast down.
45 Ref Thou hast shortened the days of his youth, Hast covered him over `with' shame. Selah.
46 Ref Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire?
47 Ref Remember, I pray Thee, what `is' life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?
48 Ref Who `is' the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.
49 Ref Where `are' Thy former kindnesses, O Lord. Thou hast sworn to David in Thy faithfulness,
50 Ref Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Thy servants, I have borne in my bosom all the strivings of the peoples,
51 Ref Wherewith Thine enemies reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached The steps of Thine anointed.
