# Psalm 89 [[Ps-88|← Psalm 88]] | [[Psalm]] | [[Ps-90|Psalm 90 →]] *** ###### v1 I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. ###### v2 I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them." ###### v3 "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant, ###### v4 'I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.'" Selah. ###### v5 The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh, your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. ###### v6 For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh, ###### v7 a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him? ###### v8 Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you. ###### v9 You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them. ###### v10 You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. ###### v11 The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours, the world and its fullness. You have founded them. ###### v12 You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name. ###### v13 You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted. ###### v14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face. ###### v15 Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh. ###### v16 In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted. ###### v17 For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted. ###### v18 For our shield belongs to Yahweh, our king to the Holy One of Israel. ###### v19 Then 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. ###### v20 I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil, ###### v21 with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him. ###### v22 No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him. ###### v23 I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him. ###### v24 But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted. ###### v25 I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers. ###### v26 He will call to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!' ###### v27 I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. ###### v28 I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him. ###### v29 I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. ###### v30 If his children forsake my law, and don't walk in my ordinances; ###### v31 if they break my statutes, and don't keep my commandments; ###### v32 then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. ###### v33 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail. ###### v34 I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered. ###### v35 Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David. ###### v36 His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me. ###### v37 It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky." Selah. ###### v38 But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed. ###### v39 You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust. ###### v40 You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin. ###### v41 All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors. ###### v42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice. ###### v43 Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven't supported him in battle. ###### v44 You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground. ###### v45 You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah. ###### v46 How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire? ###### v47 Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men! ###### v48 What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah. ###### v49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness? ###### v50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples, ###### v51 With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one. ###### v52 Blessed be Yahweh forever more. Amen, and Amen. *** [[Ps-88|← Psalm 88]] | [[Psalm]] | [[Ps-90|Psalm 90 →]]