A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.
[89:1] I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
[89:2] For I said, “Steadfast love will be built up forever; in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness.”
[89:3] You have said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant:
[89:4] ‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.’”
[89:5] Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Lord, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!
[89:6] For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,
[89:7] a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him?
[89:8] O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O Lord, with your faithfulness all around you?
[89:9] You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.
[89:10] You crushed Rahab like a carcass; you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
[89:11] The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.
[89:12] The north and the south, you have created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.
[89:13] You have a mighty arm; strong is your hand, high your right hand.
[89:14] Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
[89:15] Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face,
[89:16] who exult in your name all the day and in your righteousness are exalted.
[89:17] For you are the glory of their strength; by your favor our horn is exalted.
[89:18] For our shield belongs to the Lord, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
[89:19] Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, and said: “I have granted help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
[89:20] I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him,
[89:21] so that my hand shall be established with him; my arm also shall strengthen him.
[89:22] The enemy shall not outwit him; the wicked shall not humble him.
[89:23] I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
[89:24] My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
[89:25] I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.
[89:26] He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’
[89:27] And I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
[89:28] My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.
[89:29] I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.
[89:30] If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules,
[89:31] if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments,
[89:32] then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes,
[89:33] but I will not remove from him my steadfast love or be false to my faithfulness.
[89:34] I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
[89:35] Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
[89:36] His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me.
[89:37] Like the moon it shall be established forever, a faithful witness in the skies.”
[89:38] But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed.
[89:39] You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust.
[89:40] You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins.
[89:41] All who pass by plunder him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.
[89:42] You have exalted the right hand of his foes; you have made all his enemies rejoice.
[89:43] You have also turned back the edge of his sword, and you have not made him stand in battle.
[89:44] You have made his splendor to cease and cast his throne to the ground.
[89:45] You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame.
[89:46] How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
[89:47] Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
[89:48] What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?
[89:49] Lord, where is your steadfast love of old, which by your faithfulness you swore to David?
[89:50] Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations,
[89:51] with which your enemies mock, O Lord, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.
[89:52] Blessed be the Lord forever!