PSALMS 89:17-42

¹⁷For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

¹⁸For our shield belongeth unto the LORD; and our king to the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

²⁰I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

²¹With whom my hand shall be established; mine arm also shall strengthen him.

²²The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

²³And I will beat down his adversaries before him, and smite them that hate him.

²⁴But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him; and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

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

²⁶He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

²⁷I also will make him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

²⁸My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

²⁹His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

³⁰If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

³¹If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

³²Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

³³But my mercy will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

³⁴My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

³⁵Once have I sworn by my holiness; I will not lie unto David;

³⁶His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

³⁷It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as the faithful witness in the sky. Selah

³⁸But thou hast cast off and rejected, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

³⁹Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown even to the ground.

⁴⁰Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to rain.

⁴¹All that pass by the way spoil him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

⁴²Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.