Psa Psalms, psalm Book of Psalms, psalm 89
AN INSTRUCTION OF ETHAN THE EZRAHITE. Of the kind acts of YHWH, I sing for all time, || From generation to generation I make known Your faithfulness with my mouth, For I said, “Kindness is built for all time, || The heavens! You establish Your faithfulness in them.” I have made a covenant for My chosen, || I have sworn to My servant David: “Even for all time I establish your seed, || And have built your throne to generation and generation.” Selah. And the heavens confess Your wonders, O YHWH, || Your faithfulness [is] also in an assembly of holy ones. For who in the sky, compares himself to YHWH? [Who] is like to YHWH among sons of the mighty? God is very terrible, || In the secret counsel of His holy ones, || And fearful over all surrounding Him. O YHWH, God of Hosts, || Who [is] like You—a strong YAH? And Your faithfulness [is] around You. You [are] ruler over the pride of the sea, || In the lifting up of its billows You restrain them. You have bruised Rahab, as one wounded. You have scattered Your enemies with the arm of Your strength. The heavens [are] Yours, || The earth [is] also Yours, || The habitable world and its fullness, || You have founded them. North and south You have appointed them, || Tabor and Hermon sing in Your Name. You have an arm with might, || Strong is Your hand—high Your right hand. Righteousness and judgment || [Are] the fixed place of Your throne, || Kindness and truth go before Your face. O the blessedness of the people knowing the shout, || O YHWH, they habitually walk in the light of Your face. They rejoice in Your Name all the day, || And they are exalted in Your righteousness, For You [are] the beauty of their strength, || And in Your good will is our horn exalted, For our shield [is] of YHWH, || And our king to the Holy One of Israel. Then You have spoken in vision, || To Your saint, indeed, || You say, I have placed help on a mighty one, || Exalted a chosen one out of the people, I have found My servant David, || With My holy oil I have anointed him. With whom My hand is established, || My arm also strengthens him. An enemy does not exact on him, || And a son of perverseness does not afflict him. And I have beaten down his adversaries before him, || And I plague those hating him, And My faithfulness and kindness [are] with him, || And in My Name is his horn exalted. And I have set his hand on the sea, || And his right hand on the rivers. He proclaims to Me: “You [are] my Father, || My God, and the rock of my salvation.” I also appoint him firstborn, || Highest of the kings of the earth. For all time I keep for him My kindness, || And My covenant [is] steadfast with him. And I have set his seed forever, || And his throne as the days of the heavens. If his sons forsake My law, || And do not walk in My judgments; If they defile My statutes, || And do not keep My commands, I have looked after their transgression with a rod, || And their iniquity with strokes, And I do not break My kindness from him, || Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness. I do not profane My covenant, || And I do not change that which is going forth from My lips. Once I have sworn by My holiness, || I do not lie to David, His seed is for all time, || And his throne [is] as the sun before Me, It is established as the moon for all time, || And the witness in the sky is steadfast. Selah. And You, You have cast off, and reject, || You have shown Yourself angry with Your anointed, Have rejected the covenant of Your servant, || You have defiled his crown to the earth, You have broken down all his hedges, || You have made his fortifications a ruin. Everyone passing by the way has spoiled him, || He has been a reproach to his neighbors, You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries, || You have caused all his enemies to rejoice. Also—You turn back the sharpness of his sword, || And have not established him in battle, Have caused [him] to cease from his brightness, || And have cast down his throne to the earth. You have shortened the days of his youth, || Have covered him over [with] shame. Selah. Until when, O YHWH, are You hidden? Does Your fury burn as fire forever? Remember how [short] my lifetime [is]. Why have You created in vain || All the sons of men? Who [is] the man that lives, and does not see death? He delivers his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah. Where [are] Your former kindnesses, O Lord, || [Which] You have sworn to David in Your faithfulness? Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, || I have borne in my bosom all the strivings of the peoples, With which Your enemies reproached, O YHWH, || With which they have reproached || The steps of Your anointed. Blessed [is] YHWH for all time. Amen and amen!