The Book of Psalms

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- Chapter 89 -

I will sing of his love forever

Yahweh, I will sing forever about the ways you faithfully love me; people not yet born will hear that you faithfully do all that you have promised.

I will tell people that you will faithfully love us forever, and that your being faithful to do what you have promised is as permanent as the sky.

Yahweh said, “I have made an agreement with David, whom I chose to serve me. I have made this solemn agreement with him:

’I will enable various ones of your descendants to always be kings; the line of kings descended from you will never end.’”

Yahweh, I desire that all those beings who are in heaven will praise you for the wonderful things that you do, and that all your holy angels will sing about how you faithfully do what you promise.

There is no one in heaven who can be compared with you, Yahweh. There are no angels in heaven who are equal to you.

When your holy angels gather together, they declare that you must be revered; they say that you are more awesome than all the angels that surround your throne!

O Yahweh God, Commander of the angel armies, there is no one who is as powerful as you are; your faithfully doing all that you promise is like a cloak that always surrounds you.

You rule over the powerful seas; when their waves rise up, you calm them.

You are the one who crushed and killed the great sea monster named Rahab. You defeated and scattered your enemies with your great power.

The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours; everything on the earth is yours because you created it all.

You created everything from the north to the south. Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon joyfully praise you.

You are very powerful; you are extremely strong.

You rule over people fairly and justly; you are always faithfully loving us and doing what you promised.

Yahweh, how fortunate are those who worship you with joyful shouts in their festivals, who live knowing that you are always watching over them.

Every day, throughout the day, they rejoice in what you have done, and they praise you for being very good to them.

You give us your glorious strength; because you act in our favor, we defeat our enemies.

Yahweh, you gave us the one who protects us; you, the holy God whom we Israelites worship, he gave us our king.

Long ago you spoke in a vision to one of your servants, saying, “I have crowned a famous soldier; I chose him from among all the people to be a king.

That man is David, the one who will serve me faithfully, and I anointed him with sacred olive oil to make him king.

My strength will always be with him; with my power, I will make him strong.

His enemies will never find ways to outwit him, and wicked people will never defeat him.

I will crush his enemies in front of him and get rid of those who hate him.

I will always be loyal to him and faithfully love him and enable him to defeat his enemies.

I will cause his kingdom to include all the land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Euphrates River.

He will say to me, ’You are my Father, my God, the one who protects and saves me.’

I will give him the rights as my firstborn son; he will be the greatest king on the earth.

I will always be loyal to him, and my agreement to bless him will last forever.

I will establish a line of his descendants that will never end, various ones of his descendants will always be kings.

But if some of his descendants disobey my laws and do not behave as my commands say that they should,

if they disregard my requirements and do not do the right things that I have told them to do,

I will punish them severely and cause them to suffer for doing wrong.

But I will not stop faithfully loving David, and I will always do what I promised him.

I will not break the agreement that I made with him; I will not change even one word that I spoke to him.

Once I made a solemn promise to David, and that will never change; because I am God, I will never lie to David.

I promised that the line of kings descended from him will go on forever; it will last as long as the sun shines.

That line will be as permanent as the moon that is always watching everything here on earth.”

But Yahweh, now you have rejected him! You are very angry with the king whom you appointed.

It seems that you have broken the agreement that you made with your servant, David; it seems as though you have thrown his crown into the dust.

You have torn down the walls that protect his city and allowed all his forts to become ruins.

All those who pass by plunder his possessions; his neighbors laugh at him.

You have enabled his enemies to defeat him; you have made them all happy.

You have caused his sword to become useless, and you have not helped him in his battles.

You have caused his splendor to end and knocked his throne to the ground.

You have caused him to become old when he is still young and caused him to be very shamed.

O Yahweh, how long will this continue? Will you hide yourself from us forever? How long will your anger against us burn like a fire?

Do not forget that life is very short; Do not forget that you have created all of us to die uselessly.

No one can keep on living and never die; no one can bring himself back from the place of the dead.

Yahweh, you promised long ago that you would faithfully love me; why are you not doing that? You solemnly promised this to David!

Yahweh, do not forget that people insult us! Heathen people curse me!

Yahweh, your enemies insult your chosen king! They insult him wherever he goes.

I hope that Yahweh will be praised forever! Amen! May it be so!

I will sing of his love forever

I will sing of the loving kindness of the LORD forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”

“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah.

The heavens will praise your wonders, LORD, your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like the LORD,

a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

LORD, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? The LORD, your faithfulness is around you.

You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours, the world and its fullness. You have founded them.

You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, LORD.

In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.

For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.

Then 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.

I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,

with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.

No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.

I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.

But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.

I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.

He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.

I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;

if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;

then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.

Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle.

You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.

You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.

How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?(a) Selah.

Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

With which your enemies have mocked, LORD, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

Blessed be the LORD forever more. Amen, and Amen.

Footnotes

(a)89:48 Sheol is the place of the dead.