Psalm 89:19–37

¹⁹Then thou spakest in vision of thy Holy One, and saidst, I have laid help upon a mighty one; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. ²⁰I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: ²¹With whom my hand shall be established; and mine arm shall strengthen him. ²²No enemy shall exact upon him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him; ²³But I will beat down his adversaries before his face, and will smite them that hate him. ²⁴And my faithfulness and my loving-kindness shall be with him, and by my name shall his horn be exalted. ²⁵And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. ²⁶He shall call unto me, Thou art my father, my •God, and the rock of my salvation; ²⁷And as to me, I will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. ²⁸My loving-kindness will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him; ²⁹And I will establish his seed for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. ³⁰If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in mine ordinances; ³¹If they profane my statutes, and keep not my commandments: ³²Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. ³³Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor belie my faithfulness; ³⁴My covenant will I not profane, 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 the witness in the sky is firm. Selah.