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¹ Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving-kindness of Yahweh forever: With my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.² For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness you will establish in the very heavens.³ I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my slave:⁴ Your seed I will establish forever, And build up your throne to all generations. Selah.

⁵ And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O Yahweh; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.⁶ For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the mighty is like Yahweh,⁷ A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, And to be awed above all those that are round about him?⁸ O Yahweh God of hosts, Who is a mighty one, like you, O Yah? And your faithfulness is round about you.⁹ You rule the pride of the sea: When the waves thereof arise, you still them.¹⁰ You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; You have scattered your enemies with the arm of your strength.¹¹ The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours: The world and the fullness thereof, you have founded them.¹² The north and the south, you have created them: Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.¹³ You have a mighty arm; Strong is your hand, and high is your right hand.¹⁴ Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne: Loving-kindness and truth go before your face.

¹⁵ Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They walk, O Yahweh, in the light of your countenance.¹⁶ In your name they rejoice all the day; And in your righteousness they stand.¹⁷ For you are the glory of their strength; And in your favor our horn shall be exalted.¹⁸ For our shield belongs to Yahweh; And our king to the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹ Then you spoke in vision to your saints, And said, I have laid help on one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.²⁰ I have found David my slave; With my holy oil I have anointed him:²¹ With whom my hand shall be established; My arm also shall strengthen him.²² The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.²³ And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And smite those that hate him.²⁴ But my faithfulness and my loving-kindness shall be with him; And in my name shall his horn be exalted.²⁵ I will set his hand also on the sea, And his right hand on the rivers.²⁶ He shall cry to me, You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.²⁷ I also will make him [my] first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth.²⁸ My loving-kindness I will keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him.²⁹ His seed also I will make to endure forever, And his throne as the days of heaven.³⁰ If his sons forsake my law, And don't walk in my ordinances;³¹ If they break my statutes, And don't keep my commandments;³² Then I will visit their transgression with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes.³³ But my loving-kindness I will not completely take from him, Nor allow my faithfulness to fail.³⁴ My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips.³⁵ Once I have sworn by my holiness: I will not lie to David:³⁶ His seed shall endure forever, And his throne as the sun before me.³⁷ It shall be established forever as the moon, And [as] the faithful witness in the sky. Selah.

³⁸ But you have cast off and rejected, You have been angry with your anointed.³⁹ You have abhorred the covenant of your slave: You have profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground.⁴⁰ You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.⁴¹ All that 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 his enemies to rejoice.⁴³ Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, And have not made him to stand in the battle.⁴⁴ You have made his brightness to cease, And cast his throne down to the ground.⁴⁵ The days of his youth you have shortened: You have covered him with shame. Selah.⁴⁶ How long, O Yahweh? will you hide yourself forever? [How long] shall your wrath burn like fire?⁴⁷ Remember me: How short is my lifetime? For what vanity have you created all the sons of man?⁴⁸ What [prominent] man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.⁴⁹ Lord, where are your former loving-kindnesses, Which you swore to David in your faithfulness?⁵⁰ Remember, Lord, the reproach of your slaves, that I bear in my bosom from all the numerous peoples,⁵¹ With which your enemies have reproached, O Yahweh, With which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.⁵² Blessed be Yahweh for evermore. Amen, and Amen.