Psalms [Praises] 89:18-35

¹⁸For our shield belongs to Adonai ; our king to the haKadosh Isra'el the Holy One of God prevails.

¹⁹Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

²⁰I have found David Beloved, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,

²¹with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.

²²No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.

²³I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.

²⁴But my faithfulness and my cheshed ·loving-kindness· will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.

²⁵I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.

²⁶He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my yishu'ah ·salvation·!’

²⁷I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

²⁸I will keep my cheshed ·loving-kindness· for him forever more. My covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties· will stand firm with him.

²⁹I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

³⁰If his children forsake my Torah ·Teaching·, and don’t walk in my judgments;

³¹if they break my regulations, and don’t keep my mitzvot ·instructions·;

³²then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

³³But I will not completely take my cheshed ·loving-kindness· from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

³⁴I will not break my covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties·, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

³⁵Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David Beloved.