✧Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah for ever: With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. ✧2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens. ✧3I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant: ✧4Thy seed will I establish for ever, And build up thy throne to all generations. [Selah ✧5And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah; Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. ✧6For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Jehovah, ✧7A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, And to be feared above all them that are round about him? ✧8O Jehovah God of hosts, Who is a mighty one, like unto thee, O Jehovah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee. ✧9Thou rulest the pride of the sea: When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. ✧10Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength. ✧11The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. ✧12The north and the south, thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name. ✧13Thou hast a mighty arm; Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. ✧14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne: Lovingkindness and truth go before thy face. ✧15Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance. ✧16In thy name do they rejoice all the day; And in thy righteousness are they exalted. ✧17For thou art the glory of their strength; And in thy favor our horn shall be exalted. ✧18For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah; And our king to the Holy One of Israel. ✧19Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints, And saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. ✧20I have found David my servant; With my holy oil have I anointed him: ✧21With whom my hand shall be established; Mine arm also shall strengthen him. ✧22The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him. ✧23And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And smite them that hate him. ✧24But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be with him; And in my name shall his horn be exalted. ✧25I will set his hand also on the sea, And his right hand on the rivers. ✧26He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation. ✧27I also will make him [my] first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth. ✧28My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him. ✧29His seed also will I make to endure for ever, And his throne as the days of heaven. ✧30If his children forsake my law, And walk not in mine ordinances; ✧31If they break my statutes, And keep not my commandments; ✧32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes. ✧33But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. ✧34My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. ✧35Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: ✧36His seed shall endure for ever, And his throne as the sun before me. ✧37It shall be established for ever as the moon, And [as] the faithful witness in the sky. [Selah ✧38But thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. ✧39Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground. ✧40Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin. ✧41All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors. ✧42Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries; Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. ✧43Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast not made him to stand in the battle. ✧44Thou hast made his brightness to cease, And cast his throne down to the ground. ✧45The days of his youth hast thou shortened: Thou hast covered him with shame. [Selah ✧46How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? [How long] shall thy wrath burn like fire? ✧47Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men! ✧48What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? [Selah ✧49Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness? ✧50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty peoples, ✧51Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. ✧52Blessed be Jehovah for evermore. Amen, and Amen.