Psalms 89:20-48

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 from 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 lovingkindness 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 first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth.

²⁸My lovingkindness 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 mine ordinances;

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 lovingkindness 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 by casting it to the ground.

⁴⁰Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

⁴¹All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors.

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

⁴³Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast not made him to stand in the battle.

⁴⁴Thou hast made his brightness to cease, And cast his throne down to the ground.

⁴⁵The days of his youth hast thou shortened: Thou hast covered him with shame. Selah

⁴⁶How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? How long shall thy wrath burn like fire?

⁴⁷Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

⁴⁸What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah