Psalms 89 {An Instruction of Ethan the Ezrahite} My song shall be always of the loving-kindness of the LORD; with my mouth will I ever be showing thy faithfulness from one generation to another.

MSTC⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ {An Instruction of Ethan the Ezrahite} My song shall be always of the loving-kindness of the LORD; with my mouth will I ever be showing thy faithfulness from one generation to another. ² For I have said, "Mercy shall be set up for ever; thy truth shalt thou establish in the heavens." ³ "I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant: ⁴ Thy seed will I establish forever, and set up thy throne from one generation to another." Selah. ⁵ O LORD the very heavens shall praise thy wondrous works; yea, and thy faithfulness in the congregation of the saints. ⁶ For who is he among the clouds, that may be compared unto the LORD? Yea what is he among the gods, that shall be like unto the LORD? ⁷ God is greatly to be feared in the council of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. ⁸ O LORD God of hosts, who is like unto thee in power? Thy truth, most mighty LORD, is on every side. ⁹ Thou rulest the pride of the sea; thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise. ¹⁰ Thou hast subdued Egypt, like one that is wounded; thou scatterest thine enemies abroad with thy mighty arm. ¹¹ The heavens are thine. The earth also is thine; thou hast laid the foundation of the round world and all that therein is. ¹² Thou hast made the north and the south, Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. ¹³ Thou hast a mighty arm; strong is thy hand, and high is thy righthand. ¹⁴ Righteousness and equity are the habitation of thy seat; mercy and truth shall go before thy face. ¹⁵ Blessed is the people, O LORD, that can rejoice in thee; they shall walk in the light of thy countenance. ¹⁶ Their delight shall be daily in thy name; and through thy righteousness they shall be exalted. ¹⁷ For thou art the glory of their strength, and through thy favour shalt thou lift up our horns. ¹⁸ The LORD is our defense, and the holy one of Israel is our king. ¹⁹ Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints, and saidst, "I have laid help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chosen out of the people. ²⁰ I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him. ²¹ My hand shall hold him fast, and mine arm shall strengthen him. ²² The enemy shall not overcome him, and the son of wickedness shall not hurt him. ²³ I shall smite down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. ²⁴ My truth also and my mercy shall be with him; and in my name shall his horn be exalted. ²⁵ I will set his hand in the sea, and his righthand in the floods. ²⁶ He shall call me, "Thou art my father, my God, and the strength of my salvation.' ²⁷ And I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. ²⁸ My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. ²⁹ His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. ³⁰ But if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments, ³¹ if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments, ³² I will visit their offenses with the rod, and their sins with scourges. ³³ Nevertheless, my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my truth to fail. ³⁴ My covenant will I not break, nor disannull the thing that is gone out of my lips. ³⁵ I have sworn once by my holiness, that I will not fail David. ³⁶ His seed shall endure forever, and his throne is like as the sun before me. ³⁷ He shall stand fast for evermore as the moon, and as the faithful witness in heaven." Selah. ³⁸ But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine annointed, and art displeased at him. ³⁹ Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant, and cast his crown to the ground. ⁴⁰ Thou hast overthrown all his hedges, and broken down his strongholds. ⁴¹ All they that go by, spoil him; he is become a reproach to his neighbours. ⁴² Thou hast set up the righthand of his enemies, and made all his adversaries to rejoice. ⁴³ Thou hast taken away the strength of his sword, and givest him not victory in the battle. ⁴⁴ Thou hast put out his glory, and cast his throne down to the ground. ⁴⁵ The days of his youth hast thou shortened, and covered him with dishonour. Selah. ⁴⁶ LORD, how long wilt thou hide thyself? Forever? And shall thy wrath burn like fire? ⁴⁷ O remember how short my time is; hast thou made all men for nought? ⁴⁸ What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? May a man deliver his own soul from the hand of hell? Selah. ⁴⁹ LORD, where are thy old loving-kindnesses, which thou sworest unto David in thy truth? ⁵⁰ Remember, LORD, the rebuke that the multitude of the people do unto thy servants, and how I have borne it in my bosom; ⁵¹ wherewith thine have blasphemed thee, and slandered the footsteps of thine anointed. ⁵² Thanks be to the LORD for evermore. Amen, Amen.