Psalms 89:27-48

²⁷I also will place him as my firstborn son, the most exalted of the kings of the earth.

²⁸I will extend my covenant faithfulness to him forever; and my covenant with him will be secure.

²⁹I will make his descendants endure forever and his throne as enduring as the skies above.

³⁰If his children forsake my law and do not walk in my regulations,

³¹if they break my rules and do not keep my commands,

³²then will I punish their rebellion with a rod and their iniquity with blows.

³³But I will not remove my steadfast love from him or be unfaithful to my promise.

³⁴I will not break my covenant or change the words of my lips.

³⁵Once and for all I have sworn by my holiness— I will not lie to David:

³⁶his descendants will continue forever and his throne as long as the sun before me.

³⁷It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah

³⁸But you have refused and rejected; you have been angry with your anointed king.

³⁹You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have desecrated his crown on the ground.

⁴⁰You have broken down all his walls. You have ruined his strongholds.

⁴¹All who pass by have robbed him. He has become an object of disgust to his neighbors.

⁴²You have raised the right hand of his enemies; you have made all his enemies rejoice.

⁴³You turn back the edge of his sword and have not made him stand when in battle.

⁴⁴You have brought his splendor to an end; you have brought down his throne to the ground.

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

⁴⁶How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself, forever? How long will your anger burn like fire?

⁴⁷Oh, think about how short my time is, and for what uselessness you have created all the children of mankind!

⁴⁸Who can live and not die, or rescue his own life from the hand of Sheol? Selah