Psalm 89
English translation got from website: https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo
- A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
- The kindnesses of the Lord I shall sing forever; to generation after generation I shall make known Your faithfulness, with my mouth.
- For I said, « Forever will it be built with kindness; as the heavens, with which You will establish Your faithfulness. »
- I formed a covenant with My chosen one; I swore to David My servant.
- Until eternity, I shall establish your seed, and I shall build your throne for all generations forever.
- And the heavens acknowledge Your wonder, O Lord, also Your faithfulness in the congregation of holy ones.
- For who in the heavens is equal to the Lord? [Who] resembles the Lord among the sons of the mighty?
- God is revered in the great council of the holy ones and feared by all around Him.
- O Lord, God of Hosts, who is like You, O Yah, Who are mighty? And Your faithfulness surrounds You.
- You rule over the pride of the sea; when it raises its waves, You humble them.
- You crushed Rahab like one slain; with the arm of Your might You scattered Your enemies.
- The heaven is Yours, even the earth is Yours; the inhabited earth and the fullness thereof-You founded them.
- North and south-You created them; Tabor and Hermon sing praises in Your name.
- You have an arm with might; Your hand is mighty, Your right hand is high.
- Righteousness and judgment are the basis of Your throne; kindness and truth come before Your countenance.
- Fortunate is the people that know the blasting of the shofar; O Lord, may they walk in the light of Your countenance.
- With Your name they rejoice every day, and with Your righteousness they are exalted.
- For You are the glory of their might, and with Your favor our horns will be raised.
- For our shield is [devoted] to the Lord, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
- Then You spoke in a vision to Your pious ones, and You said, « I placed help on a mighty man; I lifted up a chosen one from the people.
- I found David My servant, I anointed him with My holy oil.
- With whom My hand will be established, even My arm will strengthen him.
- No enemy will exact from him, neither will an unjust person afflict him.
- And I shall crush his adversaries from before him, and I shall strike his enemies.
- My faithfulness and My kindness will be with him, and with My name his horn will be raised.
- I shall place his hand over the sea, and his right hand over the rivers.
- He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’
- I, too, shall make him a firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
- I will forever keep My kindness for him, and My covenant will remain true to him.
- And I shall make his seed endure forever, and his throne as the days of the heavens.
- If his sons forsake My Torah and do not walk in My judgments,
- If they profane My statutes and do not keep My commandments,
- I shall punish their transgression with a rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
- But I shall not cancel My kindness from him, and I shall not betray My faith.
- I shall not profane My covenant, neither shall I alter the utterance of My lips.
- One thing have I sworn by My holiness, that I will not fail David.
- His seed will be forever and his throne is like the sun before Me.
- Like the moon, which is established forever, and it is a witness in the sky, eternally true. »
- But You abandoned and You rejected; You became wroth with Your anointed.
- You abrogated the covenant of Your servant; You profaned his crown to the ground.
- You breached all his fences; You made his fortifications a ruin.
- All wayfarers have plundered him; he was a disgrace to his neighbors.
- You raised the right hand of his adversaries; You caused all his enemies to rejoice.
- You even turned back the sharp edge of his sword, and You did not raise him up in battle.
- You have brought an end to his shining, and his throne You have cast down to earth.
- You have shortened the days of his youth; You have enwrapped him with shame forever.
- How long, O Lord? Will You hide forever? Will Your anger burn like fire?
- I am mindful what my old age is; for what futility have You created all the sons of man?
- Who is a man who will live and not see death, who will rescue his soul from the grasp of the grave forever?
- Where are Your former acts of kindness, O Lord, which You swore to David in your trust?
- Remember, O Lord, the disgrace of Your servants, which I bear in my bosom, [the disgrace] of all great nations.
- Which Your enemies disgraced, O Lord, which they disgraced the ends of Your anointed.
- Blessed is the Lord forever. Amen and Amen.