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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 Tzva'ot, 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 Rachav in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. ¹¹ The heavens are yours, the eretz also is yours; The world and its fullness. You have founded them. ¹² The north and the south, you have created them. Tavor 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. Lovingkindness 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 do 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 Yisra'el.

¹⁹ Then you spoke in vision to your holy ones, And said, "I have bestowed strength on 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 lovingkindness 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 eretz. ²⁸ I will keep my lovingkindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him. ²⁹ I will also make his seed endure forever, And his throne as the days of heaven. ³⁰ If his children forsake my law, And don't walk in my ordinances; ³¹ If they break my statutes, And don't keep my mitzvot; ³² Then I will punish their sin with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes. ³³ But I will not completely take my lovingkindness from him, Nor allow my faithfulness to fail. ³⁴ I will not break my covenant, Nor alter what my lips have uttered. ³⁵ Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David. ³⁶ His seed 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." Selah.

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. Selah. 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 have you 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 She'ol? Selah. ⁴⁹ Lord, where are your former lovingkindnesses, 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 forevermore. Amein, and Amein.