Psalm 89:30–52

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.

⁴¹All that pass by the way rob him:

He is become a reproach to his neighbors.

⁴²Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries;

Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

⁴³Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword,

And hast not made him to stand in the battle.

⁴⁴Thou hast made his brightness to cease,

And cast his throne down to the ground.

⁴⁵The days of his youth hast thou shortened:

Thou hast covered him with shame. Selah

⁴⁶How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever?

How long shall thy wrath burn like fire?

⁴⁷Oh remember how short my time is:

For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

⁴⁸What man is he that shall live and not see death,

That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

⁴⁹Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses,

Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?

⁵⁰Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants;

How I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty peoples,

⁵¹Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah,

Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

⁵²Blessed be Jehovah for evermore.

Amen, and Amen.