Psalms 89

1A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation.

1I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

2Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.

3Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

3I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,

4For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night,

4Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

5Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

5And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.

6In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, and wither.

6For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?

7For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation.

7God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

8Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance.

8O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?

9For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered as a spider:

9Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

10The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.

10Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

11Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear

11The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

12Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.

12The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.

13Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants.

13Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

14We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.

14Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

15We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.

15Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.

16Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their children.

16In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

17And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.

17For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

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18For the Lord is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

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19Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

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20I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

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21With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.

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22The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

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23And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

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24But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

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25I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.

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26He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

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27Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.

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28My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

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29His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

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30If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

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31If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

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32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

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33Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

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34My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

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35Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

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36His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

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37It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

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38But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

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39Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

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40Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

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41All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

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42Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

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43Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

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44Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

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45The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.

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46How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

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47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

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48What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

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49Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

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50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;

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51Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

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52Blessed be the Lord for evermore. Amen, and Amen.