Tehillim 89 תהילים פ״ט

A Maskil of Etan the Ezraĥite.

I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord for ever: with my mouth I will make known Thy faithfulness to all generations.

For I have said, The world is built by love: Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in the very heavens.

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

Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. (Sela.)

And the heavens shall praise Thy wonders, O Lord: Thy 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 mighty can be likened to the Lord?

A God dreaded in the great council of the holy ones, and had in reverence by all those round about him.

O Lord God of hosts, O Lord, who is strong like Thee? and Thy faithfulness is round about Thee.

Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof rise up, Thou stillest them.

Thou hast trodden down Rahav like carrion; Thou hast scattered Thy enemies with Thy strong arm.

The skies are Thine, the earth also is Thine: the world and the fulness thereof, Thou hast founded them.

The north and the south, Thou hast created them: Tavor and Ḥermon shall rejoice in Thy name.

Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is Thy hand, and high is Thy right hand.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Thy throne: love and truth shall go before Thee.

Happy is the people that know the joyful note: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of Thy countenance.

In Thy name they rejoice all the day: and in Thy righteousness they are exalted.

For Thou art the glory of their strength: and in Thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

For our shield belongs to the Lord; and our king to the Holy One of Yisra᾽el.

Then Thou didst speak in vision to Thy pious one, and didst say, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; have exalted one chosen out of the people.

I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

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

The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

And I will beat down his foes before his face, and strike down those who hate him.

But my faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

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

He shall cry to me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

Also I will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

I will keep my truth with him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne like the days of heaven.

If his children forsake my Tora, and walk not in my judgments;

if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

then I will punish their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with strokes.

Nevertheless I will not utterly take my steadfast love from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

My covenant I will not break, nor alter that which has issued from my lips.

Once I have sworn by my holiness that I will not fail unto David.

His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne shall be like the sun before me.

It shall be established for ever like the moon, and the witness in the sky is sure. (Sela.)

But Thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been angry with Thy anointed.

Thou hast renounced the covenant of Thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown to the ground.

Thou hast broken down all his fences; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

All that pass by the way plunder him: he is a taunt to his neighbours.

Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries; Thou hast made all his enemies rejoice.

Thou hast also turned back the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

Thou hast made his brightness to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

The days of his youth Thou hast shortened: Thou hast covered him with shame. (Sela.)

How long, Lord? wilt Thou hide Thyself forever? shall Thy wrath burn like fire?

Remember how short my time is: for what nothingness hast Thou created all the sons of men!

What man is he that lives, and shall not see death, but shall deliver his soul from the power of She᾽ol? (Sela.)

Lord, where are Thy former oaths of steadfast love which Thou didst make to David in Thy faithfulness?

Remember, Lord, the disgrace of Thy servants: how I bear in my bosom the insults of all the many peoples,

wherewith Thy enemies have insulted, O Lord; wherewith they have insulted the footsteps of Thy anointed.

Blessed be the Lord for evermore. Amen, and Amen.