PS-89:1 Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the

mercies of the LORD

for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to

all generations.

PS-89:2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy

faithfulness

shalt thou establish in the very heavens.

PS-89:3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto

David my

servant,

PS-89:4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy

throne to all

generations. Selah.

PS-89:5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy

faithfulness

also in the congregation of the saints.

PS-89:6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD?

[who] among the

sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?

PS-89:7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the

saints, and to be

had in reverence of all [them that are] about him.

PS-89:8 O LORD God of hosts, who [is] a strong LORD like unto

thee? or to thy

faithfulness round about thee?

PS-89:9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves

thereof arise, thou

stillest them.

PS-89:10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain;

thou hast

scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

PS-89:11 The heavens [are] thine, the earth also [is] thine: [as

for] the

world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

PS-89:12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor

and Hermon

shall rejoice in thy name.

PS-89:13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, [and] high

is thy right

hand.

PS-89:14 Justice and judgment [are] the habitation of thy throne:

 mercy and

truth shall go before thy face.

PS-89:15 Blessed [is] the people that know the joyful sound:

they shall walk,

O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

PS-89:16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy

righteousness

shall they be exalted.

PS-89:17 For thou [art] the glory of their strength: and in thy

favour our

horn shall be exalted.

PS-89:18 For the LORD [is] our defence; and the Holy One of

Israel [is] our

king.

PS-89:19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst,

 I have laid

help upon [one that is] mighty; I have exalted [one] chosen out

of the people.

PS-89:20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I

anointed him:

PS-89:21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also

shall

strengthen him.

PS-89:22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of

wickedness afflict

him.

PS-89:23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and

plague them that

hate him.

PS-89:24 But my faithfulness and my mercy [shall be] with him:

and in my name

shall his horn be exalted.

PS-89:25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand

in the

rivers.

PS-89:26 He shall cry unto me, Thou [art] my father, my God, and

the rock of

my salvation.

PS-89:27 Also I will make him [my] firstborn, higher than the

kings of the

earth.

PS-89:28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my

covenant shall

stand fast with him.

PS-89:29 His seed also will I make [to endure] for ever, and his

throne as the

days of heaven.

PS-89:30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my

judgments;

PS-89:31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

PS-89:32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and

their

iniquity with stripes.

PS-89:33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take

from him, nor

suffer my faithfulness to fail.

PS-89:34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that

is gone out of

my lips.

PS-89:35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie

unto David.

PS-89:36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the

sun before me.

PS-89:37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and [as]

a faithful

witness in heaven. Selah.

PS-89:38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been

wroth with thine

anointed.

PS-89:39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou

hast profaned

his crown [by casting it] to the ground.

PS-89:40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought

his strong

holds to ruin.

PS-89:41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to

his

neighbours.

PS-89:42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries;

thou hast made

all his enemies to rejoice.

PS-89:43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast

not made him to

stand in the battle.

PS-89:44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne

down to the

ground.

PS-89:45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast

covered him with

shame. Selah.

PS-89:46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall

thy wrath burn

like fire?

PS-89:47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made

all men in

vain?

PS-89:48 What man [is he that] liveth, and shall not see death?

shall he

deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

PS-89:49 Lord, where [are] thy former lovingkindnesses, [which]

thou swarest

unto David in thy truth?

PS-89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; [how] I

do bear in my

bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty people;

PS-89:51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD;

wherewith they have

reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

PS-89:52 Blessed [be] the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.

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