Psalms - Chapter 89 - A Conservative Version
- I will sing of the loving kindness of LORD forever. With my mouth I will make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
- For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever. Thy faithfulness thou will establish in the very heavens.
- I have made a covenant with my chosen. I have sworn to David my servant:
- Thy seed I will establish forever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
- And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD, thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the sanctified.
- For who in the clouds can be compared to LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty is like LORD,
- a God very awesome in the council of the holy ones, and to be feared above all those who are round about him?
- O LORD God of hosts, who is a mighty one like thee, O LORD? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.
- Thou rule the pride of the sea. When the waves of it arise, thou still them.
- Thou have broken Rahab in pieces, as a wounded man. Thou have scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.
- The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine, the world and the fullness of it; thou have founded them.
- The north and the south, thou have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.
- Thou have a mighty arm. Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
- Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne. Loving kindness and truth go before thy face.
- Blessed is the people who know the joyful sound. They walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
- In thy name do they rejoice all the day, and in thy righteousness are they exalted.
- For thou are the glory of their strength, and in thy favor our horn shall be exalted.
- For our shield belongs to LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
- Then thou spoke in a vision to thy sanctified, and said, I have laid help upon a mighty [man]. I have exalted a chosen [man] out of the people.
- I have found David my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him,
- with whom my hand shall be established. My arm also shall strengthen him.
- The enemy shall not exact from him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
- And I will beat down his adversaries before him, and smite those who hate him,
- but my faithfulness and my loving kindness shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
- I will also set his hand on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.
- He shall cry to me, Thou are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
- I also will make him first-born, the highest of the kings of the earth.
- I will keep my loving kindness for him for evermore. And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
- I will also make his seed to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
- If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in my ordinances,
- if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments,
- then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes,
- but my loving kindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
- I will not break my covenant, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- I have sworn once by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
- His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.
- It shall be established forever as the moon, and [as] the faithful witness in the sky. Selah.
- But thou have cast off and rejected. Thou have been angry with thine anointed.
- Thou have abhorred the covenant of thy servant. Thou have profaned his crown to the ground.
- Thou have broken down all his hedges. Thou have brought his strongholds to ruin.
- All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
- Thou have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. Thou have made all his enemies to rejoice.
- Yea, thou turn back the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.
- Thou have made his brightness to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
- The days of his youth thou have shortened. Thou have covered him with shame. Selah.
- How long, O LORD? Will thou hide thyself forever? Shall thy wrath burn like fire?
- O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
- What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
- LORD, where are thy former loving kindnesses, which thou swore to David in thy faithfulness?
- Remember, LORD, the reproach of thy servants, how I bear in my bosom all the mighty peoples,
- with which thine enemies have reproached, O LORD, with which they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
- Blessed be LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.