Psalm 89:19–37

¹⁹Once you spoke in a vision,

to your faithful people you said:

“I have bestowed strength on a warrior;

I have raised up a young man from among the people.

²⁰I have found David^j my servant;^k

with my sacred oil^l I have anointed^m him.

²¹My hand will sustain him;

surely my arm will strengthen him.ⁿ

²²The enemy will not get the better of him;^o

the wicked will not oppress^p him.

²³I will crush his foes before him^q

and strike down his adversaries.^r

²⁴My faithful love will be with him,^s

and through my name his horn^f will be exalted.

²⁵I will set his hand over the sea,

his right hand over the rivers.^t

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

my God, the Rock^v my Savior.’^w

²⁷And I will appoint him to be my firstborn,^x

the most exalted^y of the kings^z of the earth.

²⁸I will maintain my love to him forever,

and my covenant with him will never fail.^a

²⁹I will establish his line forever,

his throne as long as the heavens endure.^b

³⁰“If his sons forsake my law

and do not follow my statutes,

³¹if they violate my decrees

and fail to keep my commands,

³²I will punish their sin with the rod,

their iniquity with flogging;^c

³³but I will not take my love from him,^d

nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.

³⁴I will not violate my covenant

or alter what my lips have uttered.^e

³⁵Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness—

and I will not lie to David—

³⁶that his line will continue forever

and his throne endure before me like the sun;^f

³⁷it will be established forever like the moon,

the faithful witness in the sky.”^g