¹I will sing of the loving kindness of the LORD forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. ²I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.” ³“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant, ⁴‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah. ⁵The heavens will praise your wonders, LORD, your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. ⁶For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like the LORD, ⁷a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him? ⁸LORD, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? LORD, your faithfulness is around you. ⁹You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them. ¹⁰You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. ¹¹The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours, the world and its fullness. You have founded them. ¹²You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name. ¹³You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted. ¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face. ¹⁵Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, LORD. ¹⁶In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted. ¹⁷For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted. ¹⁸For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁹Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people. ²⁰I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil, ²¹with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him. ²²No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him. ²³I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him. ²⁴But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted. ²⁵I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers. ²⁶He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’ ²⁷I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. ²⁸I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him. ²⁹I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. ³⁰If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances; ³¹if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments; ³²then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. ³³But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail. ³⁴I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered. ³⁵Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David. ³⁶His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me. ³⁷It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah. ³⁸But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed. ³⁹You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust. ⁴⁰You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin. ⁴¹All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors. ⁴²You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice. ⁴³Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle. ⁴⁴You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground. ⁴⁵You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah. ⁴⁶How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire? ⁴⁷Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men! ⁴⁸What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah. ⁴⁹Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness? ⁵⁰Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples, ⁵¹With which your enemies have mocked, LORD, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one. ⁵²Blessed be the LORD forever more. Amen, and Amen.