Psalms 89:8-42

⁸O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty as you? Your strength and faithfulness, Lord, surround you.

⁹You are the Lord of the raging sea: when its waves surge, it is you who still them.

¹⁰It was you who did pierce and crush Rahab in pieces, and scatter your foes by your mighty arm.

¹¹Yours are the heavens, yours also the earth, the world and its fulness, it's you who did found them.

¹²The north and the south, it's you have created them; Tabor and Hermon shout praise to your name.

¹³You have an arm with the might of a hero; strong is your hand, high uplifted your right hand.

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.