[1] I will sing of the lovingkindness of the LORD forever; To all generations I will make known Your faithfulness with my mouth.
[2] For I have said, “Lovingkindness will be built up forever; In the heavens You will establish Your faithfulness.”
[3] “I have made a covenant with My chosen; I have sworn to David My servant,
[4] I will establish your seed forever And build up your throne to all generations.” Selah.
[5] The heavens will praise Your wonders, O LORD; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
[6] For who in the skies is comparable to the LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty is like the LORD,
[7] A God greatly feared in the council of the holy ones, And awesome above all those who are around Him?
[8] O LORD God of hosts, who is like You, O mighty LORD? Your faithfulness also surrounds You.
[9] You rule the swelling of the sea; When its waves rise, You still them.
[10] You Yourself crushed Rahab like one who is slain; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
[11] The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all it contains, You have founded them.
[12] The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.
[13] You have a strong arm; Your hand is mighty, Your right hand is exalted.
[14] Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Lovingkindness and truth go before You.
[15] How blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! O LORD, they walk in the light of Your countenance.
[16] In Your name they rejoice all the day, And by Your righteousness they are exalted.
[17] For You are the glory of their strength, And by Your favor our horn is exalted.
[18] For our shield belongs to the LORD, And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
[19] Once You spoke in vision to Your godly ones, And said, “I have given help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
[20] I have found David My servant; With My holy oil I have anointed him,
[21] With whom My hand will be established; My arm also will strengthen him.
[22] The enemy will not deceive him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
[23] But I shall crush his adversaries before him, And strike those who hate him.
[24] My faithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with him, And in My name his horn will be exalted.
[25] I shall also set his hand on the sea And his right hand on the rivers.
[26] He will cry to Me, ‘You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.’
[27] I also shall make him My firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.
[28] My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever, And My covenant shall be confirmed to him.
[29] So I will establish his descendants forever And his throne as the days of heaven.
[30] If his sons forsake My law And do not walk in My judgments,
[31] If they violate My statutes And do not keep My commandments,
[32] Then I will punish their transgression with the rod And their iniquity with stripes.
[33] But I will not break off My lovingkindness from him, Nor deal falsely in My faithfulness.
[34] My covenant I will not violate, Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.
[35] Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David.
[36] His descendants shall endure forever And his throne as the sun before Me.
[37] It shall be established forever like the moon, And the witness in the sky is faithful.” Selah.
[38] But You have cast off and rejected, You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.
[39] You have spurned the covenant of Your servant; You have profaned his crown in the dust.
[40] You have broken down all his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
[41] All who pass along the way plunder him; He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
[42] You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; You have made all his enemies rejoice.
[43] You also turn back the edge of his sword And have not made him stand in battle.
[44] You have made his splendor to cease And cast his throne to the ground.
[45] You have shortened the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah.
[46] How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath burn like fire?
[47] Remember what my span of life is; For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!
[48] What man can live and not see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
[49] Where are Your former lovingkindnesses, O Lord, Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?
[50] Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants; How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many peoples,
[51] With which Your enemies have reproached, O LORD, With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed.
[52] Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and Amen.