Psalms

¹The understanding of Ethan the Ezrahite. ↗

²I will sing the mercies of the Lord in eternity. I will announce your truth with my mouth, from generation to generation. ↗

³For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. Your truth will be prepared there. ↗

⁴I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant: ↗

⁵I will prepare your offspring, even in eternity. And I will build up your throne, from generation to generation. ↗

⁶The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, and also your truth, in the Church of the saints. ↗

⁷For who among the clouds is equal to the Lord? Who among the sons of God is like God? ↗

⁸God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him. ↗

⁹O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you. ↗

¹⁰You rule over the power of the sea, and you even mitigate the movement of its waves. ↗

¹¹You have humbled the arrogant one, like one who has been wounded. You have scattered your enemies with the arm of your strength. ↗

¹²Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness. ↗

¹³You created the north and the sea. Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name. ↗

¹⁴Your arm acts with power. Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted. ↗

¹⁵Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face. ↗

¹⁶Blessed is the people that knows jubilation. They will walk in the light of your countenance, O Lord, ↗

¹⁷and they will exult in your name all day long, and they will be exalted in your justice. ↗

¹⁸For you are the glory of their virtue, and in your goodness, our horn will be exalted. ↗

¹⁹For our assumption is of the Lord, and it is of our king, the holy one of Israel. ↗

²⁰Then you spoke in a vision to your holy ones, and you said: I have stationed help with the powerful one, and I have exalted the elect one from my people. ↗

²¹I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil. ↗

²²For my hand will assist him, and my arm will fortify him. ↗

²³The enemy will have no advantage over him, nor will the son of iniquity be positioned to harm him. ↗

²⁴And I will cut down his enemies before his face. And those who hate him, I will turn to flight. ↗

²⁵And my truth and my mercy will be with him. And his horn will be exalted in my name. ↗

²⁶And I will place his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers. ↗

²⁷He will invoke me: ”You are my father, my God, and the support of my salvation.“ ↗

²⁸And I will make him the first-born, preeminent before the kings of the earth. ↗

²⁹I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, and my covenant for him faithfully. ↗

³⁰And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, and his throne like the days of heaven. ↗

³¹But if his sons abandon my law, and if they do not walk in my judgments, ↗

³²if they profane my justices, and if they do not keep my commandments: ↗

³³I will visit their iniquities with a rod, and their sins with a beating. ↗

³⁴But I will not scatter my mercy from him, and I will not do harm to my truth. ↗

³⁵And I will not profane my covenant, and I will not make void that which proceeds from my lips. ↗

³⁶I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David, ↗

³⁷his offspring will remain for eternity. And his throne will be like the sun in my sight, ↗

³⁸and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven. ↗

³⁹Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, you have pushed away, my Christ. ↗

⁴⁰You have overthrown the covenant of your servant. You have profaned his sanctuary on earth. ↗

⁴¹You have destroyed all his fences. You have made his territory dreadful. ↗

⁴²All who pass by the way have plundered him. He has become a disgrace to his neighbors. ↗

⁴³You have exalted the right hand of those who oppress him. You have brought joy to all his enemies. ↗

⁴⁴You have diverted the help of his sword, and you have not assisted him in battle. ↗

⁴⁵You have torn him away from cleansing, and you have smashed his throne down to the ground. ↗

⁴⁶You have reduced the days of his time. You have flooded him with confusion. ↗

⁴⁷How long, O Lord? Will you turn away unto the end? Will your wrath flare up like a fire? ↗

⁴⁸Remember what my substance is. For could you really have appointed all the sons of men in vain? ↗

⁴⁹Who is the man that will live, and yet not see death? Who will rescue his own soul from the hand of the underworld? ↗

⁵⁰O Lord, where are your mercies of antiquity, just as you swore to David in your truth? ↗

⁵¹Be mindful, O Lord, of the disgrace of your servants (which I have sustained in my sinews) among many nations. ↗

⁵²With these, your enemies have reproached you, O Lord; with these, they have reproached the commutation of your Christ. ↗

⁵³Blessed is the Lord for all eternity. Amen. Amen. ↗