Psalms 89 · Clearspring

A Maskil + 89:1 Maskil is probably a musical or liturgical term; used for Psalms 32, 42, 44–45, 52–55, 74, 78, 88–89, and 142. of Ethan the Ezrahite.

I Will Sing of His Love Forever

¹I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.+ ²I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”+ ³“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,+ ⁴‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah.+ ⁵The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh; your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.+ ⁶For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,+ ⁷a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?+ ⁸Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.+ ⁹You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.+ ¹⁰You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.+ ¹¹The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.+ ¹²The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.+ ¹³You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.+ ¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.+ ¹⁵Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.+ ¹⁶In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.+ ¹⁷For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.+ ¹⁸For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of Israel.+ 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, 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 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 salvation!’+ ²⁷I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.+ ²⁸I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant 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 law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;+ ³¹if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;+ ³²then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.+ ³³But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.+ ³⁴I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.+ ³⁵Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.+ ³⁶His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.+ ³⁷It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.+ ³⁸But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.+ ³⁹You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.+ ⁴⁰You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.+ ⁴¹All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.+ ⁴²You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.+ ⁴³Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle.+ ⁴⁴You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down 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? Will your wrath burn like fire?+ ⁴⁷Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!+ ⁴⁸What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.+ ⁴⁹Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?+ ⁵⁰Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,+ ⁵¹With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.+ ⁵²Blessed be Yahweh forever more. Amen, and Amen.+

I Will Sing of His Love Forever

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