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Verse 1

I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

Verse 2

I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them."

Verse 3

"I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

Verse 4

'I will establish your seed forever, and build up your throne to all generations.'" Selah.

Verse 5

The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh; your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

Verse 6

For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,

Verse 7

a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

Verse 8

Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

Verse 9

You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

Verse 10

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

Verse 11

The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.

Verse 12

The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

Verse 13

You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

Verse 14

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

Verse 15

Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.

Verse 16

In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.

Verse 17

For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

Verse 18

For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of Israel.

Verse 19

Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

Verse 20

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

Verse 21

with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.

Verse 22

No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.

Verse 23

I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.

Verse 24

But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.

Verse 25

I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.

Verse 26

He will call to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!'

Verse 27

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Verse 28

I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him.

Verse 29

I will also make his seed endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

Verse 30

If his children forsake my law, and don't walk in my ordinances;

Verse 31

if they break my statutes, and don't keep my commandments;

Verse 32

then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

Verse 33

But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

Verse 34

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

Verse 35

Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

Verse 36

His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

Verse 37

It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky." Selah.

Verse 38

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

Verse 39

You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

Verse 40

You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Verse 41

All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

Verse 42

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.

Verse 43

Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven't supported him in battle.

Verse 44

You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.

Verse 45

You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.

Verse 46

How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

Verse 47

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

Verse 48

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

Verse 49

Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

Verse 50

Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

Verse 51

With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

Verse 52

Blessed be Yahweh forevermore. Amen, and Amen. BOOK IV A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.

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