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¹ A Poem of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the mercies of Jehovah forever; I will speak with my mouth Your faithfulness to all generations.² For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever; You shall establish Your faithfulness in the heavens.³ I have cut a covenant with My elect; I have sworn to David My servant,⁴ I will establish your Seed forever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah.

⁵ And the heavens shall thank Your wonders, O Jehovah; also Your faithfulness in the assembly of the saints.⁶ For who in the sky shall be ranked with Jehovah, who among the sons of the mighty is like Jehovah?⁷ God is greatly to be feared in the congregation of the saints, and to be adored by all around Him.⁸ O Jehovah God of Hosts, who is a strong Jehovah like You? And Your faithfulness is all around You.⁹ You rule the pride of the sea; when its waves rise high, You still them.¹⁰ You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one slain; You have scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.¹¹ The heavens are Yours, and the earth is Yours; the world and its fullness, You 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, Your right hand is high.¹⁴ Justice and righteousness are Your throne's foundation; mercy and truth go before Your face.

¹⁵ Blessed is the people knowing the joyful sound; O Jehovah, they shall walk in the light of Your face.¹⁶ They shall rejoice in Your name always; and they are exalted in Your righteousness.¹⁷ For You are the glory of their strength; and by Your favor You lift up our horn.¹⁸ For Jehovah is our shield, yea, the Holy One of Israel our King.

¹⁹ Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one; and You said, I have laid help on a mighty one. I have exalted a chosen one from the people.²⁰ I have found My servant David; I have anointed him with My holy oil.²¹ My hand shall be fixed with him; and My arm shall make him strong.²² An enemy will not exact against him; nor the son of iniquity afflict him.²³ And I will beat down his foes before him, and plague those hating him.²⁴ But My faithfulness and My mercy is with him; and his horn shall be exalted in My name.²⁵ And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.²⁶ He shall cry to Me, My Father, You are my God, and the rock of my salvation.²⁷ And I will make Him My first-born, higher than the kings of the earth.²⁸ I will keep My mercy for him forever, and My covenant shall hold fast with him.²⁹ And I have established his Seed 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 profane My statutes and do not keep My commandments;³² then I will visit their transgressions with the rod, and their sins with stripes.³³ But I will not annul My mercy from him, and I will not be false in My faithfulness.³⁴ I will not profane My covenant, nor change what goes from My lips.³⁵ Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David.³⁶ His Seed shall be forever, and his throne as the sun before Me.³⁷ Like the moon, it shall be forever; and a faithful witness in the sky. Selah.

³⁸ But You have cast off and rejected us ; You have passed over on Your anointed.³⁹ You have turned away from the covenant of Your servant; You have defiled his crown on the ground.⁴⁰ You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.⁴¹ All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a curse to his neighbors.⁴² You have set up the right hand of his enemies; You have made all his enemies rejoice.⁴³ And you have turned back the edge of his sword, and have not held him up in battle.⁴⁴ You have made his glory to cease and have hurled his throne to the ground.⁴⁵ You have shortened the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah.⁴⁶ O Jehovah, until when will You hide Yourself? Shall Your wrath burn like fire forever?⁴⁷ Remember, I pray, the time of life; for what vanity have you created all the sons of men?⁴⁸ What man lives and never sees death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol? Selah.⁴⁹ Lord, where are Your former kindnesses that You swore to David in Your faithfulness?⁵⁰ Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, my bearing in my bosom the insults of the many peoples⁵¹ with which Your enemies have cursed, O Jehovah; with which they have cursed the footsteps of Your anointed.⁵² Blessed be Jehovah forever. Amen and Amen!