Psalms 89:8-52

⁸O Lord God of hostes, who is like vnto thee, which art a mightie Lord, and thy trueth is about thee?

⁹Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waues thereof arise, thou stillest them.

¹⁰Thou hast beaten downe Rahab as a man slaine: thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy mightie arme.

¹¹The heauens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast layde the foundation of the world, and all that therein is.

¹²Thou hast created the North and the South: Tabor and Hermon shall reioyce in thy Name.

¹³Thou hast a mightie arme: strong is thine hand, and high is thy right hand.

¹⁴Righteousnesse and equitie are the stablishment of thy throne: mercy and trueth goe before thy face.

¹⁵Blessed is the people, that can reioyce in thee: they shall walke in the light of thy countenance, O Lord.

¹⁶They shall reioyce continually in thy Name, and in thy righteousnes shall they exalt them selues.

¹⁷For thou art the glory of their strength, and by thy fauour our hornes shall be exalted.

¹⁸For our shield apperteineth to the Lord, and our King to the holy one of Israel.

¹⁹Thou spakest then in a vision vnto thine Holy one, and saydest, I haue layde helpe vpon one that is mightie: I haue exalted one chosen out of the people.

²⁰I haue found Dauid my seruant: with mine holy oyle haue I anoynted him.

²¹Therefore mine hande shall be established with him, and mine arme shall strengthen him.

²²The enemie shall not oppresse him, neither shall the wicked hurt him.

²³But I will destroy his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

²⁴My trueth also and my mercie shall be with him, and in my Name shall his horne be exalted.

²⁵I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the floods.

²⁶He shall cry vnto mee, Thou art my Father, my God and the rocke of my saluation.

²⁷Also I wil make him my first borne, higher then the Kings of the earth.

²⁸My mercie will I keepe for him for euermore, and my couenant shall stande fast with him.

²⁹His seede also will I make to endure for euer, and his throne as the dayes of heauen.

³⁰But if his children forsake my Lawe, and walke not in my iudgements:

³¹If they breake my statutes, and keepe not my commandements:

³²Then will I visite their transgression with the rod, and their iniquitie with strokes.

³³Yet my louing kindnesse will I not take from him, neither will I falsifie my trueth.

³⁴My couenant wil I not breake, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

³⁵I haue sworne once by mine holines, that I will not fayle Dauid, saying,

³⁶His seede shall endure for euer, and his throne shalbe as the sunne before me.

³⁷He shalbe established for euermore as the moone, and as a faythfull witnes in the heauen. Selah.

³⁸But thou hast reiected and abhorred, thou hast bene angry with thine Anoynted.

³⁹Thou hast broken the couenant of thy seruant, and profaned his crowne, casting it on the ground.

⁴⁰Thou hast broken downe all his walles: thou hast layd his fortresses in ruine.

⁴¹All that goe by the way, spoyle him: he is a rebuke vnto his neighbours.

⁴²Thou hast set vp the right hand of his enemies, and made all his aduersaries to reioyce.

⁴³Thou hast also turned the edge of his sworde, and hast not made him to stand in the battell.

⁴⁴Thou hast caused his dignitie to decay, and cast his throne to the ground.

⁴⁵The dayes of his youth hast thou shortned, and couered him with shame. Selah.

⁴⁶Lord, howe long wilt thou hide thy selfe, for euer? shall thy wrath burne like fire?

⁴⁷Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?

⁴⁸What man liueth, and shall not see death? shall hee deliuer his soule from the hande of the graue? Selah.

⁴⁹Lord, where are thy former mercies, which thou swarest vnto Dauid in thy trueth?

⁵⁰Remember, O Lord, the rebuke of thy seruants, which I beare in my bosome of all the mightie people.

⁵¹For thine enemies haue reproched thee, O Lord, because they haue reproched the footesteps of thine Anointed.

⁵²Praised be the Lord for euermore. So be it, euen so be it.