28My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore;

And my covenant shall stand fast with him.

29His seed also will I make to endure for ever,

And his throne as the days of heaven.

30If his children forsake my law,

And walk not in mine ordinances;

31If they break my statutes,

And keep not my commandments;

32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod,

And their iniquity with stripes.

33But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him,

Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

34My covenant will I not break,

Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

35Once have I sworn by my holiness:

I will not lie unto David:

36His seed shall endure for ever,

And his throne as the sun before me.

37It shall be established for ever as the moon,

And as the faithful witness in the sky. Selah

38But thou hast cast off and rejected,

Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

39Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant:

Thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

40Thou hast broken down all his hedges;

Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.