¹ I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever: with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations. ² For I have said, Mercy will be built up forever: your faithfulness will you establish in the very heavens. ³ I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant, ⁴ your seed will I establish for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah. ⁵ And the heavens will praise your wonders, O LORD: your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. ⁶ For who in the heaven can be compared to the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the LORD? ⁷ God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him. ⁸ O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like to you? or to your faithfulness round about you? ⁹ You rule the raging of the sea: when the waves of it arise, you still them. ¹⁰ you have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; you have scattered your enemies with your strong arm. ¹¹ The heavens are yours, the earth also the world is yours, and the fulness of it, you have founded them. ¹² The north and the south you have created them: Tabor and Hermon will rejoice in your name. ¹³ you have a mighty arm: strong is your hand, and high is your right hand. ¹⁴ Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth will go before your face. ¹⁵ Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they will walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance. ¹⁶ In your name will they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness will they be exalted. ¹⁷ For you are the glory of their strength: and in your favour our horn will be exalted . ¹⁸ For the LORD is our defense and the Holy One of Israel is our king. ¹⁹ Then you speaks in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help on one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. ²⁰ I have found David my servant with my holy oil have I anointed him ²¹ With who my hand will be established: mine arm also will strengthen him. ²² The enemy will not exact on him nor the son of wickedness afflict him. ²³ And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. ²⁴ But my faithfulness and my mercy will be with him: and in my name will his horn be exalted. ²⁵ I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. ²⁶ He will cry to me, you are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. ²⁷ Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. ²⁸ My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant will stand fast with him. ²⁹ His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. ³⁰ If his children abandon my law, and walk not in my judgments; ³¹ If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; ³² Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. ³³ Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. ³⁴ My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. ³⁵ Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David. ³⁶ His seed will endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. ³⁷ It will be established forever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah. ³⁸ But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been angry with your anointed. ³⁹ you have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. ⁴⁰ you have broken down all his hedges you have brought his strong holds to ruin. ⁴¹ All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a rebuke to his neighbours. ⁴² you have set up the right hand of his adversaries you have made all his enemies to rejoice. ⁴³ you have also turned the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle. ⁴⁴ you have made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. ⁴⁵ The days of his youth have you shortened: you have covered him with shame. Selah. ⁴⁶ How long, LORD? will you hide yourself forever? will your wrath burn like fire? ⁴⁷ Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain? ⁴⁸ What man is he that lives, and will not see death? will he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. ⁴⁹ Lord, where are your former loving-kindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth? ⁵⁰ Remember, Lord, the rebuke of your servants; how I do bear in my bosom the rebuke of all the mighty people; ⁵¹ Wherewith your enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed. ⁵² Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.