Psalm 89:15–37

¹⁵How blessed are the people who know the ^1ajoyful sound!

O Lord, they walk in the ^blight of Your countenance.

¹⁶In ^aYour name they rejoice all the day,

And by Your righteousness they are exalted.

¹⁷For You are the glory of ^atheir strength,

And by Your favor ¹our ^bhorn is exalted.

¹⁸For our ^ashield belongs to the Lord,

¹And our king to the ^bHoly One of Israel.

¹⁹¹Once You spoke in vision to Your godly ²ones,

And said, “I have ³given help to one who is ^amighty;

I have exalted one ^bchosen from the people.

²⁰“I have ^afound David My servant;

With My holy ^boil I have anointed him,

²¹With whom ^aMy hand will be established;

My arm also will ^bstrengthen him.

²²“The enemy will not ¹deceive him,

Nor the ^2ason of wickedness afflict him.

²³“But I shall ^acrush his adversaries before him,

And strike those who hate him.

²⁴“My ^afaithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with him,

And in My name his ^bhorn will be exalted.

²⁵“I shall also set his hand ^aon the sea

And his right hand on the rivers.

²⁶“He will cry to Me, ‘You are ^amy Father,

My God, and the ^brock of my salvation.’

²⁷“I also shall make him My ^afirstborn,

The ^bhighest of the kings of the earth.

²⁸“My ^alovingkindness I will keep for him forever,

And My ^bcovenant shall be confirmed to him.

²⁹“So I will establish his ^1adescendants forever

And his ^bthrone ^cas the days of heaven.

³⁰“If his sons ^aforsake My law

And do not walk in My judgments,

³¹If they ¹violate My statutes

And do not keep My commandments,

³²Then I will punish their transgression with the ^arod

And their iniquity with stripes.

³³“But I will not break off ^aMy lovingkindness from him,

Nor deal falsely in My faithfulness.

³⁴“My ^acovenant I will not ¹violate,

Nor will I ^balter ²the utterance of My lips.

³⁵“¹Once I have ^asworn by My holiness;

I will not lie to David.

³⁶“His ^1adescendants shall endure forever

And his ^bthrone ^cas the sun before Me.

³⁷“It shall be established forever ^alike the moon,

And the ^bwitness in the sky is faithful.”

¹Selah.