Psalms 89
Open in the reader1A Contemplation of Enduring the Ezrahite.
2I will sing of the loving devotion of He-Who-Is forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.
3For I have said, “Loving devotion is built up forever; in the heavens You establish Your faithfulness.”
4You said , “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to Beloved My servant:
5‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah
6The heavens praise Your wonders, O He-Who-Is— Your faithfulness as well— in the assembly of the devoted ones.
7For who in the skies can compare with He-Who-Is? Who among the heavenly beings is like He-Who-Is?
8In the council of the devoted ones, God is greatly feared, and awesome above all who surround Him.
9O He-Who-Is God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty He-Who-Is, Your faithfulness surrounds You.
10You rule the raging Sea; when its waves mount up, You still them.
11You crushed Stormer like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
12The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded.
13North and south You created; Mound and Abrupt shout for joy at Your name.
14Mighty is Your arm; strong is Your hand. Your right hand is exalted.
15Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You.
16Blessed are those who know the joyful sound, who walk, O He-Who-Is, in the light of Your presence.
17They rejoice in Your name all day long, and in Your righteousness they exult.
18For You are the glory of their strength, and by Your favor our horn is exalted.
19Surely our shield belongs to He-Who-Is, and our king to the Devoted One of Strives-with-God.
20You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
21I have found My servant Beloved; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.
22My hand will sustain him; surely My arm will strengthen him.
23No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.
24I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
25My faithfulness and loving devotion will be with him, and through My name his horn will be exalted.
26I will set his hand over the Sea, and his right hand upon the rivers.
27He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
28I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
29I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
30I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.
31If his sons forsake My teaching and do not walk in My judgments,
32if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,
33I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.
34But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.
35I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
36Once and for all I have sworn by My devotedness— I will not lie to Beloved—
37his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
38like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah
39Now , however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.
40You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
41You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.
42All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
43You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.
44You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.
45You have ended his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.
46You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah
47How long, O He-Who-Is? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
48Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
49What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Place-of-the-Dead? Selah
50Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to Beloved?
51Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—
52how Your enemies have taunted, O He-Who-Is, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!
53Blessed be He-Who-Is forever! Amen and amen.