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- 1 A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of the LORD forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
- 2 I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”
- 3 “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,
- 4 ‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah.
- 5 The heavens will praise your wonders, LORD, your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
- 6 For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like the LORD,
- 7 a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?
- 8 LORD, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? LORD, your faithfulness is around you.
- 9 You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.
- 10 You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
- 11 The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours, the world and its fullness. You have founded them.
- 12 You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
- 13 You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
- 14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
- 15 Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, LORD.
- 16 In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.
- 17 For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.
- 18 For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
- 19 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.
- 20 I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,
- 21 with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.
- 22 No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.
- 23 I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.
- 24 But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.
- 25 I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.
- 26 He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
- 27 I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
- 28 I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.
- 29 I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
- 30 If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
- 31 if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;
- 32 then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
- 33 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
- 34 I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
- 35 Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.
- 36 His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.
- 37 It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.
- 38 But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.
- 39 You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
- 40 You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
- 41 All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
- 42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
- 43 Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle.
- 44 You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.
- 45 You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.
- 46 How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
- 47 Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
- 48 What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
- 49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
- 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
- 51 With which your enemies have mocked, LORD, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
- 52 Blessed be the LORD forever more. Amen, and Amen.