Psalms 89:14-52

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 favor will lift us to honor.

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 honor.

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.

²⁸“My love will I keep for him ever, my covenant with him shall stand fast.

²⁹His line will I make everlasting, and his throne as the days of the heavens.

³⁰“If his children forsake my law, and walk not as I have ordained;

³¹if they profane my statutes, and do not keep my commandments;

³²“I will punish their sin with the rod, their iniquity with scourges.

³³But my love will I not take from him, nor will I belie my faithfulness.

³⁴“I will not profane my covenant by changing the word that has passed my lips.

³⁵Once have I solemnly sworn and I would not lie to David,

³⁶“that his line should endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me,

³⁷firm as the moon which for ever and ever is fixed in the sky.” Selah

³⁸But you have cast off in contempt, and been furious with your anointed.

³⁹You have spurned the covenant with your servant, and his sacred crown dashed to the ground.

⁴⁰You have broken down all his walls, and laid his bulwarks in ruins.

⁴¹All who pass on their way despoil him, the scorn of his neighbors is he now.

⁴²You have given his foes the victory, and made all his enemies glad.

⁴³You have turned back his sword from the foe, you did not lift him up in the battle.

⁴⁴The sceptre you took from his hand, and his throne you did hurl to the ground.

⁴⁵You have shortened the days of his youth, and covered him with shame. Selah

⁴⁶How long, Lord will you hide you forever? How long are the fires of your wrath to burn?

⁴⁷Remember, Lord, the shortness of life how fleeting you made all people.

⁴⁸Who can live without seeing death? Who can rescue their life from the clutch of Sheol? Selah

⁴⁹Where, Lord, is your kindness of old, which you in your faithfulness swore to David?

⁵⁰Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, how I bear in my heart the scorn of all nations

⁵¹The scorn which your enemies hurl, O Lord, which they hurl at the footsteps of your anointed.

⁵²Blest be the Lord, for ever and ever. Amen and Amen.