Psalms 89:8-52

⁸Yahweh God of hosts, who is strong like you, Yahweh? Your truthfulness surrounds you.

⁹You rule the raging sea; when the waves surge, you calm them.

¹⁰You crushed Rahab as one who is killed. You scattered your enemies with your strong arm.

¹¹The heavens belong to you, and the earth also. You made the world and all it contains.

¹²You created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

¹³You have a mighty arm and a strong hand, and your right hand is high.

¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Covenant faithfulness and trustworthiness come before you.

¹⁵Blessed are the people who worship you! Yahweh, they walk in the light of your face.

¹⁶They rejoice in your name all day long, and in your righteousness they exalt you.

¹⁷You are their majestic strength, and by your favor we are victorious.

¹⁸For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king belongs to the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹Long ago you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones; you said, “I have set a crown on a mighty one.” I have raised up one chosen from among the people.

²⁰I have chosen David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him.

²¹My hand will support him; my arm will strengthen him.

²²No enemy will deceive him; no son of wickedness will oppress him.

²³I will crush his enemies before him; I will kill those who hate him.

²⁴My truth and my covenant faithfulness will be with him; by my name he will be victorious.

²⁵I will place his hand over the sea and his right hand over the rivers.

²⁶He will call out to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.'

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

⁴⁹Lord, where are your former acts of covenant faithfulness that you swore to David in your truthfulness?

⁵⁰Call to mind, Lord, the mocking directed against your servants and how I bear in my heart so many insults from the nations.

⁵¹Your enemies hurl insults, Yahweh; they mock the footsteps of your anointed one.

⁵²Blessed be Yahweh forever. Amen and Amen.