⁵Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Yahweh,
your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!
⁶For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh?
Who among the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
⁷a 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?
⁹You rule the raging of the sea;
when its waves rise, you calm them.
¹⁰You crushed Rahab like a carcass,
you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
¹¹The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours;
the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.
¹²The north and the south, you have created them;
Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.
¹³You have a mighty arm;
strong is your hand, high your right hand.
¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
¹⁵Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O Yahweh,
in the light of your countenance,
¹⁶who exult in your name all the day,
and extol your righteousness.
¹⁷For you are the glory of their strength;
by your favour our horn is exalted.
¹⁸For our shield belongs to Yahweh,
our king to the Holy One of Israel.
¹⁹Of 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.
²⁰I have found David, my servant;
with my holy oil I have anointed him;
²¹so that my hand shall ever abide with him,
my arm also shall strengthen him.
²²The enemy shall not outwit him,
the wicked shall not humble him.
²³I will crush his foes before him
and strike down those who hate him.
²⁴My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him,
and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
²⁵I will set his hand on the sea
and his right hand on the rivers.
²⁶He shall cry to me, 'You are my Father, my God,
and the Rock of my salvation.'
²⁷And I will make him the first-born,
the highest of the kings of the earth.
²⁸My steadfast love I will keep for him for ever,
and my covenant will stand firm for him.
²⁹I will establish his line for ever
and his throne as the days of the heavens.
³⁰If his children forsake my law
and do not walk according to my ordinances,
³¹if they violate my statutes
and do not keep my commandments,
³²then I will punish their transgression with the rod
and their iniquity with scourges;
³³but I will not remove from him my steadfast love,
or be false to my faithfulness.
³⁴I will not violate my covenant,
or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
³⁵Once for all I have sworn by my holiness;
I will not lie to David.
³⁶His line shall endure for ever,
his throne as long as the sun before me.
³⁷Like the moon it shall be established for ever;
it shall stand firm while the skies endure." Selah

³⁸But now you have cast off and rejected,
you are full of wrath against your anointed.
³⁹You have renounced the covenant with your servant;
you have defiled his crown in the dust.
⁴⁰You have breached all his walls;
you have laid his strongholds in ruins.
⁴¹All that pass by despoil him;
he has become the scorn of his neighbours.
⁴²You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
you have made all his enemies rejoice.
⁴³Yea, you have turned back the edge of his sword,
and you have not made him stand in battle.
⁴⁴You have removed the scepter from his hand,
and cast his throne to the ground.
⁴⁵You have cut short the days of his youth;
you have covered him with shame. Selah

⁴⁶How long, O Yahweh? Will you hide yourself for ever?
How long will your wrath burn like fire?
⁴⁷Remember, O Yahweh, what the measure of life is,
for what vanity you have created all the sons of men!
⁴⁸What man can live and never see death?
Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

⁴⁹Yahweh, where is your steadfast love of old,
which by your faithfulness you swore to David?
⁵⁰Remember, O Yahweh, how your servant is scorned;
how I bear in my bosom the insults of the peoples,
⁵¹with which your enemies taunt, O Yahweh,
with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.

⁵²Blessed be Yahweh for ever!
Amen & Amen.