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!