89Psalms 89

1I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations.Select Psalms 89:1

2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: your faithfulness shall you establish in the very heavens.Select Psalms 89:2

3I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant,Select Psalms 89:3

4Your seed will I establish for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah.Select Psalms 89:4

5And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O LORD: your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.Select Psalms 89:5

6For who in the heaven can be compared to the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the LORD?Select Psalms 89:6

7God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.Select Psalms 89:7

8O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like to you? or to your faithfulness round about you?Select Psalms 89:8

9You rule the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, you still them.Select Psalms 89:9

10You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; you have scattered your enemies with your strong arm.Select Psalms 89:10

11The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours: as for the world and the fullness thereof, you have founded them.Select Psalms 89:11

12The north and the south you have created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in your name.Select Psalms 89:12

13You have a mighty arm: strong is your hand, and high is your right hand.Select Psalms 89:13

14Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face.Select Psalms 89:14

15Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance.Select Psalms 89:15

16In your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted.Select Psalms 89:16

17For you are the glory of their strength: and in your favor our horn shall be exalted.Select Psalms 89:17

18For the LORD is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.Select Psalms 89:18

19Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help on one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.Select Psalms 89:19

20I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:Select Psalms 89:20

21With whom my hand shall be established: my arm also shall strengthen him.Select Psalms 89:21

22The enemy shall not exact on him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.Select Psalms 89:22

23And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.Select Psalms 89:23

24But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.Select Psalms 89:24

25I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.Select Psalms 89:25

26He shall cry to me, You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.Select Psalms 89:26

27Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.Select Psalms 89:27

28My mercy will I keep for him for ever more, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.Select Psalms 89:28

29His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.Select Psalms 89:29

30If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;Select Psalms 89:30

31If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;Select Psalms 89:31

32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.Select Psalms 89:32

33Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.Select Psalms 89:33

34My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.Select Psalms 89:34

35Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David.Select Psalms 89:35

36His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.Select Psalms 89:36

37It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.Select Psalms 89:37

38But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been wroth with your anointed.Select Psalms 89:38

39You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.Select Psalms 89:39

40You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strong holds to ruin.Select Psalms 89:40

41All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbors.Select Psalms 89:41

42You have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice.Select Psalms 89:42

43You have also turned the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.Select Psalms 89:43

44You have made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.Select Psalms 89:44

45The days of his youth have you shortened: you have covered him with shame. Selah.Select Psalms 89:45

46How long, LORD? will you hide yourself for ever? shall your wrath burn like fire?Select Psalms 89:46

47Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?Select Psalms 89:47

48What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.Select Psalms 89:48

49Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth?Select Psalms 89:49

50Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;Select Psalms 89:50

51With which your enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.Select Psalms 89:51

52Blessed be the LORD for ever more. Amen, and Amen.Select Psalms 89:52