Psalm 89:19–37

¹⁹Formerly 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.

²⁰I have found David, my servant.

With my holy oil I have anointed him,

²¹with whom my hand will be steadfast.

Surely my arm will strengthen him.

²²The enemy will not deceive him,

and no evil man^m will afflict him.

²³But I will crush his adversaries before him,

and I will strike those who hate him.

²⁴And so my faithfulness

and my loyal love will be with him,

and in my name his horn will rise up.

²⁵And I will set his hand on the sea

and his right hand on the rivers.

²⁶He will call out to me, ‘You are my Father,

my God, and the rock of my salvation.’

²⁷I will also make him the firstborn,

the highest of the kings of the earth.

²⁸Forever I will keep my loyal love for him,

and my covenant will be reliable for him.

²⁹I will also establish his offspring forever,

and his throne as the days of the heavens.

³⁰If his sons forsake my law

and do not walk in my judgments,

³¹if they defileⁿ my statutes

and do not keep my commandments,

³²then I will punish their transgression with a rod,

and their guilt with wounds.

³³But I will not break off my loyal love from him,

and I will not be false against my faithfulness.

³⁴I will not defile^o my covenant,

or alter what proceeded from my lips.

³⁵Once^p I have sworn by my holiness,

‘I will surely not lie to David,

³⁶His offspring will endure^q forever,

and his throne as the sun before me.

³⁷Like the moon it will be steadfast forever,

and like an enduring witness in the sky.’ ” Selah