Psalm 89:1–26

¹An instruction, by Ethan the Ezrahite. Of the kind acts of Jehovah, to the age I sing, To all generations I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth,

²For I said, ‘To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.’

³I have made a covenant for My chosen, I have sworn to David My servant:

⁴‘Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah.

⁵And the heavens confess Thy wonders, O Jehovah, Thy faithfulness also is in an assembly of holy ones.

⁶For who in the sky, Compareth himself to Jehovah? Is like to Jehovah among sons of the mighty?

⁷God is very terrible, In the secret counsel of His holy ones, And fearful over all surrounding Him.

⁸O Jehovah, God of Hosts, Who is like Thee—a strong Jah? And Thy faithfulness is round about Thee.

⁹Thou art ruler over the pride of the sea, In the lifting up of its billows Thou dost restrain them.

¹⁰Thou hast bruised Rahab, as one wounded. With the arm of Thy strength Thou hast scattered Thine enemies.

¹¹Thine are the heavens—the earth also is Thine, The habitable world and its fulness, Thou hast founded them.

¹²North and south Thou hast appointed them, Tabor and Hermon in Thy name do sing.

¹³Thou hast an arm with might, Strong is Thy hand—high Thy right hand.

¹⁴Righteousness and judgment Are the fixed place of Thy throne, Kindness and truth go before Thy face.

¹⁵O the happiness of the people knowing the shout, O Jehovah, in the light of Thy face they walk habitually.

¹⁶In Thy name they rejoice all the day, And in Thy righteousness they are exalted,

¹⁷For the beauty of their strength art Thou, And in Thy good will is our horn exalted,

¹⁸For of Jehovah is our shield, And of the Holy One of Israel our king.

¹⁹Then Thou hast spoken in vision, To Thy saint, yea, Thou sayest, I have placed help upon a mighty one, Exalted a chosen one out of the people,

²⁰I have found David My servant, With My holy oil I have anointed him.

²¹With whom My hand is established, My arm also doth strengthen him.

²²An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not.

²³And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague,

²⁴And My faithfulness and kindness are with him, And in My name is his horn exalted.

²⁵And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand.

²⁶He proclaimeth me: ‘Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.’