Psalms 89:15-47

¹⁵O the happiness of the people knowing the shout, O Jehovah, in the light of Thy face they walk habitually.

¹⁶In Thy name they rejoice all the day, And in Thy righteousness they are exalted,

¹⁷For the beauty of their strength art Thou, And in Thy good will is our horn exalted,

¹⁸For of Jehovah is our shield, And of the Holy One of Israel our king.

¹⁹Then 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,

²⁰I have found David My servant, With My holy oil I have anointed him.

²¹With whom My hand is established, My arm also doth strengthen him.

²²An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not.

²³And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague,

²⁴And My faithfulness and kindness are with him, And in My name is his horn exalted.

²⁵And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand.

²⁶He proclaimeth me: 'Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.'

²⁷I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth.

²⁸To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant is stedfast with him.

²⁹And I have set his seed for ever, And his throne as the days of the heavens.

³⁰If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;

³¹If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep,

³²I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity,

³³And My kindness I break not from him, Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness.

³⁴I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.

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

³⁶His seed is to the age, And his throne is as the sun before Me,

³⁷As the moon it is established — to the age, And the witness in the sky is stedfast. Selah.

³⁸And Thou, Thou hast cast off, and dost reject, Thou hast shown Thyself wroth With Thine anointed,

³⁹Hast rejected the covenant of Thy servant, Thou hast polluted to the earth his crown,

⁴⁰Thou hast broken down all his hedges, Thou hast made his fenced places a ruin.

⁴¹Spoiled him have all passing by the way, He hath been a reproach to his neighbours,

⁴²Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries, Thou hast caused all his enemies to rejoice.

⁴³Also — Thou turnest back the sharpness of his sword, And hast not established him in battle,

⁴⁴Hast caused him to cease from his brightness, And his throne to the earth hast cast down.

⁴⁵Thou hast shortened the days of his youth, Hast covered him over with shame. Selah.

⁴⁶Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire?

⁴⁷Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?