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 lovingkindness of Jehovah for ever: With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.+ ²For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.+ ³I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant:+ ⁴Thy seed will I establish for ever, And build up thy throne to all generations.[Selah+ ⁵And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah; Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.+ ⁶For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Jehovah,+ ⁷A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, And to be feared above all them that are round about him?+ ⁸O Jehovah God of hosts, Who is a mighty one, like unto thee, O Jehovah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.+ ⁹Thou rulest the pride of the sea: When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.+ ¹⁰Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.+ ¹¹The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.+ ¹²The north and the south, thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.+ ¹³Thou hast a mighty arm; Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.+ ¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne: Lovingkindness and truth go before thy face.+ ¹⁵Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.+ ¹⁶In thy name do they rejoice all the day; And in thy righteousness are they exalted.+ ¹⁷For thou art the glory of their strength; And in thy favor our horn shall be exalted.+ ¹⁸For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah; And our king to the Holy One of Israel.+ ¹⁹Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints, And saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.+ ²⁰I have found David my servant; With my holy oil have I anointed him:+ ²¹With whom my hand shall be established; Mine arm also shall strengthen him.+ ²²The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.+ ²³And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And smite them that hate him.+ ²⁴But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be with him; And in my name shall his horn be exalted.+ ²⁵I will set his hand also on the sea, And his right hand on the rivers.+ ²⁶He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.+ ²⁷I also will make him [my] first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth.+ ²⁸My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him.+ ²⁹His seed also will I make to endure for ever, And his throne as the days of heaven.+ ³⁰If his children forsake my law, And walk not in mine ordinances;+ ³¹If they break my statutes, And keep not my commandments;+ ³²Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes.+ ³³But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.+ ³⁴My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.+ ³⁵Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David:+ ³⁶His seed shall endure for ever, And his throne as the sun before me.+ ³⁷It shall be established for ever as the moon, And [as] the faithful witness in the sky.[Selah+ ³⁸But thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.+ ³⁹Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground.+ ⁴⁰Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.+ ⁴¹All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors.+ ⁴²Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries; Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.+ ⁴³Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast not made him to stand in the battle.+ ⁴⁴Thou hast made his brightness to cease, And cast his throne down to the ground.+ ⁴⁵The days of his youth hast thou shortened: Thou hast covered him with shame.[Selah+ ⁴⁶How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? [How long] shall thy wrath burn like fire?+ ⁴⁷Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!+ ⁴⁸What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?[Selah+ ⁴⁹Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?+ ⁵⁰Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty peoples,+ ⁵¹Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.+ ⁵²Blessed be Jehovah for evermore. Amen, and Amen.+

I Will Sing of His Love Forever

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