Psalm 89:19–37

¹⁹Once, in a vision, you spoke

to those who worship you.

You said, “I have given strength to a warrior;

I have raised up a young man from my people.

²⁰I have found my servant David;

I appointed him by pouring holy oil on him.

²¹I will steady him with my hand

and strengthen him with my arm.

²²No enemy will make him give forced payments,

and wicked people will not defeat him.

²³I will crush his enemies in front of him;

I will defeat those who hate him.

²⁴My loyalty and love will be with him.

Through me he will be strong.

²⁵I will give him power over the sea

and control over the rivers.

²⁶He will say to me, ‘You are my father,

my God, the Rock, my Savior.’

²⁷I will make him my firstborn son,

the greatest king on earth.

²⁸My love will watch over him forever,

and my agreement with him will never end.

²⁹I will make his family continue,

and his kingdom will last as long as the skies.

³⁰“If his descendants reject my teachings

and do not follow my laws,

³¹if they ignore my demands

and disobey my commands,

³²then I will punish their sins with a rod

and their wrongs with a whip.

³³But I will not hold back my love from David,

nor will I stop being loyal.

³⁴I will not break my agreement

nor change what I have said.

³⁵I have promised by my holiness,

I will not lie to David.

³⁶His family will go on forever.

His kingdom will last before me like the sun.

³⁷It will continue forever, like the moon,

like a dependable witness in the sky.”

Selah