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¹ I will sing forever of Yahweh's acts of loyal love.
From generation to generation^[b]
I will make known your faithfulness with my mouth.
² For I say, "Forever your loyal love is built up.
The heavens you have established with your faithfulness in them."
³ "I made a covenant with my chosen one;
I swore an oath to David my servant:
⁴ ‘I will establish your descendants forever,
and I will build up your throne from generation to generation.'"^[c] Selah
⁵ And so the heavens will praise your wonderful deed, O Yahweh,
even your faithfulness, in the assembly of the holy ones.
⁶ For who in the sky^[d] is equal to Yahweh?
Who is like Yahweh among the sons of God,
⁷ a God feared greatly in the council of the holy ones,
and awesome above all surrounding him?
⁸ O Yahweh God of hosts,
who is mighty like you, O Yah,
with^[e] your faithfulness surrounding you?
⁹ You are ruling the surging of the sea.
When its waves rise, you yourself still^[f] them.
¹⁰ You yourself crushed^[g] Rahab like one who is slain;
you scattered your enemies with your strong arm.
¹¹ The heavens are yours, the earth yours as well,
the world with its fullness, because you founded them.
¹² North and south, you created them;
Tabor and Hermon shout joyfully over your name.
¹³ You have a mighty arm;
Your hand is strong; your right hand reaches high.
¹⁴ Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.
Loyal love and faithfulness^[h] come before your face.^[i]
15 Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout;
O Yahweh, they walk about in the light of your countenance.
¹⁶ In your name they rejoice all the day,
and in your righteousness they rise up.
¹⁷ For you are the glory of their strength,
and by your favor our horn rises up,^[j]
18 because our shield belongs to Yahweh,^[k]
and our king to the Holy One of Israel.^[l]
19 Formerly you spoke in a vision
to your faithful ones, and said,
"I have bestowed help on a mighty man;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.
²⁰ I have found David, my servant.
With my holy oil I have anointed him,
²¹ with whom my hand will be steadfast.
Surely my arm will strengthen him.
²² The enemy will not deceive him,
and no evil man^[m] will afflict him.
²³ But I will crush his adversaries before him,
and I will strike those who hate him.
²⁴ And so my faithfulness
and my loyal love will be with him,
and in my name his horn will rise up.
²⁵ And I will set his hand on the sea
and his right hand on the rivers.
²⁶ He will call out to me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, and the rock of my salvation.'
²⁷ I will also make him the firstborn,
the highest of the kings of the earth.
²⁸ Forever I will keep my loyal love for him,
and my covenant will be reliable for him.
²⁹ I will also establish his offspring forever,
and his throne as the days of the heavens.
³⁰ If his sons forsake my law
and do not walk in my judgments,
³¹ if they defile^[n] my statutes
and do not keep my commandments,
³² then I will punish their transgression with a rod,
and their guilt with wounds.
³³ But I will not break off my loyal love from him,
and I will not be false against my faithfulness.
³⁴ I will not defile^[o] my covenant,
or alter what proceeded from my lips.
³⁵ Once^[p] I have sworn by my holiness,
‘I will surely not lie to David,
³⁶ His offspring will endure^[q] forever,
and his throne as the sun before me.
³⁷ Like the moon it will be steadfast forever,
and like an enduring witness in the sky.'" Selah
³⁸ But you have spurned and rejected;
you are very angry with your anointed one.
³⁹ You have repudiated the covenant with your servant;
you have defiled^[r] his crown in^[s] the dirt.
⁴⁰ You have broken down all his walls;
you have made his fortifications a ruin.
⁴¹ All passing along the road plunder him;
he has become a taunt to his neighbors.
⁴² You have raised the right hand^[t] of his adversaries.
You have made all his enemies rejoice.
⁴³ You have also turned back the edge of his sword
and have not helped him stand his ground in the battle.
⁴⁴ You have made his splendor to cease,
and cast his throne to the ground.
⁴⁵ You have cut short the days of his youth;
you have covered him with shame. Selah
⁴⁶ How long, O Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever?
Will your wrath burn like fire forever?
⁴⁷ Remember what my lifespan is.
Remember for what vanity
you have created all the children of humankind.
⁴⁸ What man can live on and not see death?
Can he deliver his life from the power^[u] of Sheol? Selah
⁴⁹ Where are your former acts of loyal love, O Lord,
that you swore to David by your faithfulness?
⁵⁰ Remember, O Lord the taunting of your servants,
how I bear in my bosom the taunts of all the many peoples,
⁵¹ by which your enemies taunt, O Yahweh,
by which they taunt the steps of your anointed one.
⁵² Blessed be Yahweh forever.
Amen and Amen.