| 89 | Psalms | ||
| Hymn in Time of National Trouble. Psalm 89(v88) | |||
| 1 | I will sing of your steadfast love, O Yahweh, for ever; with my mouth I will proclaim your faithfulness to all generations. | ||
| 2 | For your steadfast love was established for ever, your faithfulness is firm as the heavens. | ||
| 3 | You have said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant: | ||
| 4 | 'I will establish your descendants for ever, and build your throne for all generations.' " | ||
| 5 | Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Yahweh, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones! | ||
| 6 | For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the heavenly beings is like Yahweh, | ||
| 7 | a God feared in the council of the holy ones, great and terrible above all that are round about him? | ||
| 8 | O Yahweh God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O Yahweh, with your faithfulness round about you? | ||
| 9 | You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you calm them. | ||
| 10 | You crushed Rahab like a carcass, you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. | ||
| 11 | The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it, you have founded them. | ||
| 12 | The north and the south, you have created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name. | ||
| 13 | You have a mighty arm; strong is your hand, high your right hand. | ||
| 14 | Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you. | ||
| 15 | Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O Yahweh, in the light of your countenance, | ||
| 16 | who exult in your name all the day, and extol your righteousness. | ||
| 17 | For you are the glory of their strength; by your favour our horn is exalted. | ||
| 18 | For our shield belongs to Yahweh, our king to the Holy One of Israel. | ||
| 19 | Of old you spoke in a vision to your faithful one, and say: "I have set the crown upon one who is mighty, I have exalted one chosen from the people. | ||
| 20 | I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him; | ||
| 21 | so that my hand shall ever abide with him, my arm also shall strengthen him. | ||
| 22 | The enemy shall not outwit him, the wicked shall not humble him. | ||
| 23 | I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him. | ||
| 24 | My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted. | ||
| 25 | I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers. | ||
| 26 | He shall cry to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.' | ||
| 27 | And I will make him the first-born, the highest of the kings of the earth. | ||
| 28 | My steadfast love I will keep for him for ever, and my covenant will stand firm for him. | ||
| 29 | I will establish his line for ever and his throne as the days of the heavens. | ||
| 30 | If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my ordinances, | ||
| 31 | if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments, | ||
| 32 | then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with scourges; | ||
| 33 | but I will not remove from him my steadfast love, or be false to my faithfulness. | ||
| 34 | I will not violate my covenant, or alter the word that went forth from my lips. | ||
| 35 | Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David. | ||
| 36 | His line shall endure for ever, his throne as long as the sun before me. | ||
| 37 | Like the moon it shall be established for ever; it shall stand firm while the skies endure." | ||
| 38 | But now you have cast off and rejected, you are full of wrath against your anointed. | ||
| 39 | You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. | ||
| 40 | You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. | ||
| 41 | All that pass by despoil him; he has become the scorn of his neighbours. | ||
| 42 | You have exalted the right hand of his foes; you have made all his enemies rejoice. | ||
| 43 | Yea, you have turned back the edge of his sword, and you have not made him stand in battle. | ||
| 44 | You have removed the scepter from his hand, and cast his throne to the ground. | ||
| 45 | You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. | ||
| 46 | How long, O Yahweh? Will you hide yourself for ever? How long will your wrath burn like fire? | ||
| 47 | Remember, O Yahweh, what the measure of life is, for what vanity you have created all the sons of men! | ||
| 48 | What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? | ||
| 49 | Yahweh, where is your steadfast love of old, which by your faithfulness you swore to David? | ||
| 50 | Remember, O Yahweh, how your servant is scorned; how I bear in my bosom the insults of the peoples, | ||
| 51 | with which your enemies taunt, O Yahweh, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed. | ||
| 52 | Blessed be Yahweh for ever! Amen & Amen. | ||
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