Remembering the Covenant with David, and Sorrow for Lost Blessings

• 89 I will sing forever of Yahweh’s acts of loyal love. From generation to generation[fn]
• 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 .’ ”[fn] 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[fn] 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[fn] your faithfulness surrounding you?
• 9 You are ruling the surging of the sea. When its waves rise, you yourself still[fn] them.
• 10 You yourself crushed[fn] 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[fn] come before your face.[fn]
• 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,[fn]
• 18 because our shield belongs to Yahweh,[fn] and our king to the Holy One of Israel.[fn]
• 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[fn] 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[fn] 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[fn] my covenant, or alter what proceeded from my lips.
• 35 Once[fn] I have sworn by my holiness, ‘I will surely not lie to David,
• 36 His offspring will endure[fn] 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[fn] his crown in[fn] 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[fn] 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[fn] 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.