The FarAboveAll translation of the Old Testament from the Masoretic Hebrew and Aramaic (WLC). See details on www.FarAboveAll.com.

Version 0.35.76, 26 August 2024

Previous
Chapter
Psalms
Index
Mobile
Home
Next
Chapter

Psalms Chapter 89

1aAn Instructive Psalm of Ethan the Ezrahite.

1bI will sing the Lord's acts of kindness age-abidingly;

From generation to generation I will make your faithfulness known

By the word of my mouth.

2For I have said,

“Kindness will be built up for the age.”

As for the heavens,

You will prepare your faithfulness in them.

3“I have made a covenant with my chosen one,

I have sworn to David my servant,

4‘I will establish your seed age-abidingly,

And I will build up your throne

From generation to generation.’ ”

Selah.

5And the heavens will praise your wondrous power, O Lord,

As also your faithfulness in the convocation of the holy ones.

6For who in the sky is comparable to the Lord?

Who can be likened to the Lord

Among the mighty ones?

7– A most formidable God in the council of the holy ones,

And fearsome to all around him?

8O Lord God of hosts,

Who is strong like you, O Lord,

With your faithfulness around you?

9You rule over the haughtiness of the sea;

When the waves arise,

You calm them.

10You have crushed Rahab like the slain;

With your strong arm

You have scattered your enemies.

11Yours are the heavens;

Yours also is the earth.

As for the world and its fulness,

You founded them.

12North and south – you created them.

Tabor and Hermon – they rejoice in your name.

13You have a valiant arm,

Your hand is strong;

Your right hand is exalted.

14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;

Kindness and truth go before you.

15Happy is the people that knows the sound;

O Lord, they will walk in the light of your presence.

16They will rejoice in your name all day long,

And they will be exalted in your righteousness.

17For you are the splendour of their strength,

And by your goodwill,

Our horn will be exalted.

18For the Lord is the possessor of our shield,

And the holy one of Israel is the possessor of our king.

19At that time you spoke in a vision to those under your grace and said,

“I have bestowed help on the warrior;

I have exalted a chosen one out of the people.

20I have found David my servant;

I have anointed him with my holy oil,

21With whom my hand will be established,

To whom also my arm will give courage.

22The enemy will not come upon him,

Nor will the unjust man afflict him.

23And I will beat his adversaries down before him

And strike down those who hate him.

24And my faithfulness and my kindness will be with him,

And his horn will be exalted in my name.

25And I will put his hand in the sea

And his right hand in the rivers.

26He will call out to me,

‘You are my father,

My God, and the rock of my salvation.’

27I will also place him as the firstborn

– The highest of the kings of the earth.

28I will maintain my kindness to him age-abidingly,

And my covenant will remain faithful to him.

29And I will appoint his seed in perpetuity,

And his throne as the days of heaven.

30If his sons forsake my law,

Or do not walk in my judicial pronouncements,

31Or if they violate my statutes,

Or do not keep my commandments,

32Then I will visit their transgression with a rod,

And their iniquity with beatings.

33But I will not lay aside my kindness with him,

And I will not default on my faithfulness.

34I will not break my covenant,

And I will not change the utterance of my lips.

35I have sworn by my holiness once;

I will certainly not lie to David.

36His seed will abide for the age,

And his throne like the sun before me,

37Just as the moon is established for the age,

And is a faithful witness in the sky.”

Selah.

38But you have turned away and rejected

– And become irate with –

Your anointed.

39You have detested your servant's covenant;

You have rendered his crown powerless on the ground.

40You have broken through all his fences;

You have made his fortifications a ruin.

41All kinds of travellers have plundered him;

He has become a reproach to his neighbours.

42You have raised the right hand of his adversaries;

You have brought joy to all his enemies.

43Also you have driven back the blade of his sword,

And you have not upheld him in battle.

44You have put an end to his splendour,

And you have cast his throne down to the ground.

45You have curtailed the days of his youth;

You have covered him with shame.

Selah.

46How long, O Lord, will you be constantly hidden?

How long will your fury burn like fire?

47Remember what kind of a lifetime I have.

– To what kind of vain end

You have created all the sons of Adam.

48What man will live and will not see death?

What man can deliver his life from the power of the grave?

Selah.

49Where are your former acts of kindness, O Lord*,

Which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

50Remember, O Lord*, the reproach of your servants

– Me bearing it in my bosom –

From all kinds of mighty peoples,

51In that your enemies have made reproaches, O Lord,

In that they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.

52Blessed be the Lord age-abidingly.

Amen and amen.

Reference(s) in Chapter 89: v.20 ↔ Acts 13:22 ● v.29 ↔ John 7:42 ● v.36 ↔ John 12:34, Acts 2:30.

OT
Index
Next
Chapter