[1] I will sing of the loving kindness of the LORD forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
[2] I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”
[3] “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,
[4] ‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’”
[5] The heavens will praise your wonders, LORD, your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
[6] For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like the LORD,
[7] a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?
[8] LORD, God of Hosts, who is a mighty one, like you? The LORD, your faithfulness is around you.
[9] You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.
[10] You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
[11] The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours, the world and its fullness. You have founded them.
[12] You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
[13] You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
[14] Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
[15] Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, LORD.
[16] In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.
[17] For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.
[18] For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
[19] Then you spoke in vision to your holy ones, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.
[20] I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,
[21] with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.
[22] No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.
[23] I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.
[24] But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.
[25] I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.
[26] He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
[27] I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
[28] I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.
[29] I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
[30] If his children forsake my Torah, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
[31] if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;
[32] then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
[33] But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
[34] I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
[35] Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.
[36] His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.
[37] It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.”
[38] But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.
[39] You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
[40] You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
[41] All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
[42] You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
[43] Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle.
[44] You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.
[45] You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame.
[46] How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
[47] Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
[48] What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?
[49] Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
[50] Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
[51] With which your enemies have mocked, LORD, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
[52] Blessed be the LORD forever more. Amen, and Amen.