Psalms 89:14-27

¹⁴Justice and right are the base of your throne, kindness and faithfulness ever attend you.

¹⁵Happy the people who know the glad shout, who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face.

¹⁶They exult in your name all the day, and your righteousness they extol.

¹⁷For you are our strength and our pride. Your favour will lift us to honour.

¹⁸For the holy Lord of Israel keeps our defender and king.

¹⁹In a vision of old you did speak in this way to the one whom you loved: “A crown I have set on the hero I chose to be over the people

²⁰“I found my servant David, and anointed with holy oil.

²¹My hand will be with him forever, my arm will give him strength.

²²“No enemy will dare to assail him, nor the wicked to oppress him;

²³but his foes I will shatter before him, I will strike down those who hate him.

²⁴“My loyal love shall attend him, and I will lift him to honour.

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

²⁶“As for him, he will call me ‘My father, my God, and my rock of salvation.’

²⁷And I will make him my first-born, highest of kings on the earth.