⁴⁹ Where `are' Thy former kindnesses, O Lord. Thou hast sworn to David in Thy faithfulness,

¹⁵ and My kindness doth not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before thee,

²¹ and he with an oath through Him who is saying unto him, `The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou `art' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;')

⁷ The kind acts of Jehovah I make mention of, The praises of Jehovah, According to all that Jehovah hath done for us, And the abundance of the goodness to the house of Israel, That He hath done for them, According to His mercies, And according to the abundance of His kind acts.

⁸ And He saith, Only My people they `are', Sons -- they lie not, and He is to them for a saviour.

⁹ In all their distress `He is' no adversary, And the messenger of His presence saved them, In His love and in His pity He redeemed them, And He doth lift them up, And beareth them all the days of old.

¹⁰ And they have rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit, And He turneth to them for an enemy, He Himself hath fought against them.

¹¹ And He remembereth the days of old, Moses -- his people. Where `is' He who is bringing them up from the sea, The shepherd of his flock? Where `is' He who is putting in its midst His Holy Spirit?

¹² Leading by the right hand of Moses, the arm of His glory, Cleaving waters from before them, To make to Himself a name age-during.

¹³ Leading them through the depths, As a horse in a plain they stumble not.

¹⁴ As a beast into a valley goeth down, The Spirit of Jehovah causeth him to rest, So hast Thou led Thy people, To make to Thyself a glorious name.

¹⁵ Look attentively from the heavens, And see from Thy holy and beauteous habitation, Where `is' Thy zeal and Thy might? The multitude of Thy bowels and Thy mercies Towards me have refrained themselves.

³ Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.

¹¹ Jehovah hath sworn truth to David, He turneth not back from it: Of the fruit of thy body, I set on the throne for thee.

¹² If thy sons keep My covenant, And My testimonies that I teach them, Their sons also for ever and ever, Do sit on the throne for thee.

³⁵ Once I have sworn by My holiness, I lie not to David,

³ I have made a covenant for My chosen, I have sworn to David My servant:

⁴ `Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah.

⁹ Hath God forgotten `His' favours? Hath He shut up in anger His mercies? Selah.

¹⁰ And I say: `My weakness is, The changes of the right hand of the Most High.'

⁵ Turn back doth the evil thing to mine enemies, In Thy truth cut them off.

⁹ thus doth God to Abner, and thus He doth add to him, surely as Jehovah hath sworn to David -- surely so I do to him: