Psalms 88:1-18

¹Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite.

²The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.

³For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.

⁴I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant:

⁵Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation.

⁶The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints.

⁷For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God?

⁸God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him.

⁹O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.

¹⁰Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.

¹¹Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.

¹²Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded:

¹³The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name:

¹⁴Thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted:

¹⁵Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:

¹⁶Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance:

¹⁷And in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted.

¹⁸For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted.