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¹ The lovingkindnesses of Yahweh, age-abidingly will I sing, To generation after generation, will I make known thy faithfulness with my mouth.² For I said, To times age-abiding, shall lovingkindness be built up, As for the heavens, thou wilt establish thy faithfulness therein.³ I have solemnised a covenant, for my chosen one, I have sworn unto David my servant:⁴ Unto times age-abiding, will I establish thy seed, And will build up, unto generation after generation, thy throne. Selah.

⁵ So shall the heavens praise thy wondrousness, O Yahweh, - Yea, thy faithfulness, in the convocation of holy ones.⁶ For whom, in the skies, can one compare unto Yahweh? Or can one liken unto Yahweh, among the sons of the mighty?⁷ A GOD inspiring awe in the circle of the holy ones, exceedingly, And to be reverenced above all who are round about him.⁸ O Yahweh, God of hosts! Who, like thee, is mighty, O Yah! With thy faithfulness round about thee:⁹ Thou, rulest over the swelling of the sea, When the rolling waves thereof lift themselves, Thou, dost bid them be still:¹⁰ Thou, hast crushed - as one slain - Rahab, With thy strong arm, hast thou scattered thy foes.¹¹ Thine, are the heavens, Yea, thine, the earth, The world and the fulness thereof, Thou, didst found them;¹² The north and the south, Thou, didst create them, - Tabor and Hermon, with thy Name, shall shout for joy:¹³ Thine is an arm with might, Strong is thy hand, High is thy right hand;¹⁴ Righteousness and justice, are the establishing of thy throne, Lovingkindness and faithfulness, go before thy face.

¹⁵ How happy are the people who know the joyful sound! O Yahweh! in the light of thy countenance, shall they firmly march along;¹⁶ In thy Name, shall they exult all the day, And, in thy righteousness, shall they be exalted.¹⁷ For, the beauty of their strength, thou art, And, in thine acceptance, shall our horns be exalted.¹⁸ For, to Yahweh, belongeth our Shield, And, to the Holy One of Israel, belongeth our King.

¹⁹ Then spakest thou in vision of thy men of lovingkindness, and saidst - I have laid help upon a mighty one, I have exalted one chosen from among the people;²⁰ I have found David my servant, With mine own holy oil, have I anointed him;²¹ With whom my hand shall be firm, Yea, mine arm, shall strengthen him;²² No foe shall make exactions on him, Nor shall, a son of perversity, humiliate him;²³ And I will shatter, from before him, his adversaries, And, them who hate him, will I smite;²⁴ And, my faithfulness and my lovingkindness, shall be with him, And, in my Name, exalted shall be his horn;²⁵ And I will set, in the sea, his hand, And, in the rivers, his right hand;²⁶ He, shall cry out unto me, My Father, thou art, My GOD, and my Rock of Salvation!²⁷ Yea, I, will appoint him, firstborn, Most High to the kings of the earth!²⁸ Age-abidingly, will I keep for him my lovingkindness, And, my covenant, hath been made steadfast for him;²⁹ Therefore will I appoint, to futurity, his seed, And his throne as the days of the heavens.³⁰ If his sons forsake my law, And, in my regulations, do not walk;³¹ If, my statutes, they profane, And, my commandments, do not keep:³² Then will I punish, with a rod, their transgression; And, with stripes, their iniquity:³³ But, my lovingkindness, will I not frustrate from them, Neither will I falsify my faithfulness;³⁴ I will not violate my covenant, And that which hath proceeded out of my lips, will I not alter:³⁵ One thing, have I sworn by my holiness, Verily, to David, will I not lie;³⁶ His seed, age-abidingly, shall remain, And, his throne, be like the sun before me;³⁷ Like the moon, shall it be established unto times age-abiding, And, a witness, in the skies, hath been made sure. Selah.

³⁸ Yet, thou thyself, hast cast off, and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with thine Anointed One!³⁹ Thou hast cast down the covenant of thy Servant, Thou hast profaned, to the earth, his crown;⁴⁰ Thou hast broken down all his defenses, Thou hast laid his fortresses in ruins;⁴¹ All the passers by the way, have plundered him, He hath become a reproach to his neighbours;⁴² Thou hast raised the right hand of his adversaries, Thou hast gladdened all his enemies;⁴³ Yea thou hast turned the edge of his sword, Neither hast thou caused him to stand in the battle;⁴⁴ Thou hast brought to an end his splendour, And, his throne - to the ground, hast thou hurled;⁴⁵ Thou hast shortened the days of his youths, - Thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.⁴⁶ How long, O Yahweh, Wilt thou hide thyself utterly? Shall thine indignation, burn like fire?⁴⁷ Remember how short-lived, I, am, Wherefore, in vain, hast thou created all the sons of Adam?⁴⁸ Who is the man that shall live, and not see death? That can deliver his soul from the hand of hades. Selah.⁴⁹ Where are thy former lovingkindnesses, O My Lord? Thou didst swear unto David, in thy faithfulness!⁵⁰ Remember, O My Lord, the reproach of thy servants, I have carried in my bosom the insult of the peoples:⁵¹ In that thy foes have reproached, O Yahweh, In that they have reproached the footsteps of thine Anointed One!⁵² Blessed be Yahweh to times age-abiding, Amen, and Amen!