Psalms 89 Of instruction to Ethan the Ezrahite. The mercies of Jehovah forever will I sing: to generation and generation will I make known thy faithfulness with my mouth.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Of instruction to Ethan the Ezrahite. The mercies of Jehovah forever will I sing: to generation and generation will I make known thy faithfulness with my mouth. ² For I said, Mercy shall be built up forever: the heavens, thy faithfulness shall be prepared in them. ³ I cut out a covenant to my chosen, I sware to David my servant, ⁴ Even to forever I will prepare thy seed, and I built up to generation and generation thy throne, Silence. ⁵ And the heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Jehovah, also thy faithfulness in the convocation of the holy ones. ⁶ For who in the cloud shall be compared to Jehovah? shall he be likened to Jehovah among the sons of God? ⁷ God being greatly terrible in the council of the holy ones and to be feared by all round about him. ⁸ O Jehovah, God of armies, who as thee, Jah, strong? and thy faithfulness round about thee? ⁹ Thou ruling over the lifting up of the sea: in the lifting up of its waves thou wilt soothe them. ¹⁰ Thou didst break Rahab in pieces as the wounded one; with the arm of thy strength thou didst scatter thine enemies. ¹¹ To thee the heavens, also to thee the earth; the habitable globe and its fulness thou didst found them. ¹² The north and the south thou didst create them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. ¹³ To thee an arm with strength: thou wilt strengthen thy hand, and thou wilt lift up thy right hand. ¹⁴ Justice and judgment the preparing of thy throne: mercy and truth shall anticipate thy face. ¹⁵ Happy the people knowing the shout of joy: O Jehovah, they shall go in the light of thy face. ¹⁶ In thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted. ¹⁷ For thou the beauty of their stength, and in thine acceptance our horn shall be exalted. ¹⁸ For to Jehovah our shield, and to the Holy One of Israel our King. ¹⁹ Then thou spakest in a vision to thy godly one, and thou wilt say, I put help upon the mighty one; I exalted the chosen one from the people. ²⁰ I found David my servant; with my holy oil I anointed him: ²¹ Which my hand shall be prepared with him: also shall mine arm strengthen him. ²² The enemy shall not impose upon him, and the son of iniquity shall not afflict him. ²³ And I beat down his adversaries from his fame, and I will smite those hating him. ²⁴ And my faithfulness and my mercy with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted. ²⁵ And I set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. ²⁶ He shall call me, Thou my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation, ²⁷ Also I will give him the firstborn, the highest to the kings of the earth. ²⁸ Forever will I watch my mercy to him, and my covenant was firm to him. ²⁹ I set his seed forever, and his throne as the days of the heavens. ³⁰ If his sons shall forsake my law, and not go in my judgments; ³¹ If they shall profane my laws and watch not my commands; ³² And I reviewed their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with blows. ³³ And my mercy I will not rend from him, and I will not lie in my faithfulness, ³⁴ I will not profane my covenant, and I will not change the going forth of my lips. ³⁵ Once did I swear in my holy place if I shall lie to David. ³⁶ His seed shall be forever and his throne as the sun before me. ³⁷ As the moon it shall be prepared forever, and a faithful witness in the cloud. Silence. ³⁸ And thou didst cast off, and thou wilt reject; thou didst overflow with thy Messiah. ³⁹ Thou didst reject the covenant of thy servant: thou didst profane to the earth his consecration. ⁴⁰ Thou didst break down all his walls; thou didst set his fortifications a ruin. ⁴¹ All those passing over the way plundered him: he was a reproach to his neighbors: ⁴² Thou didst raise up the right hand of his adversaries; thou didst cause all his enemies to rejoice. ⁴³ Also thou wilt turn hack the edge of his sword, and thou caused him not to rise up in war. ⁴⁴ Thou didst cause to cease from his cleansing, and his throne thou didst cast it down to the earth. ⁴⁵ Thou didst shorten the clays of his youth: thou didst cover over him with shame. Silence. ⁴⁶ How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou hide thyself forever? Shall thy wrath burn as fire? ⁴⁷ Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man? ⁴⁸ What man shall live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hades? Silence. ⁴⁹ Where thy former mercies, O Jehovah, thou didst sware to David in thy faithfulness? ⁵⁰ Remember, O Jehovah, the reproach of thy servants; I lifted up in my bosom all the multitudes of peoples; ⁵¹ Which thine enemies reproached, O Jehovah; which they reproached the heels of thy Messiah. ⁵² Blessed be Jehovah forever. Amen and Amen.