A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite
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📚✭✭I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever.
With my mouth I will make known
your faithfulness to all generations✭.
2 📚✭For I have said,
“Mercy will stand firm forever;
you will establish your faithfulness
in the very heavens”.
3 📚✭You have said “I have made
a covenant with my chosen one;
I have sworn to my servant David:
4 📚I will establish your offspring
forever,
and make your throne firm
to all generations”. Selah
5 📚✭And the heavens will praise
your wonders,
O LORD, and also
your faithfulness in the
congregation of the saints.
6 📚For who in the heavens 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 regarded with reverence
by all those who are
around him.
8 📚O LORD God of hosts,
who is powerful
like you, O LORD?
Your faithfulness surrounds you.
9 📚You rule the raging of the sea.
When its waves rise up,
you still them.
10 📚You have broken Rahab✭
in pieces,
like one who is slain.
You have scattered your enemies
with your strong arm.
11 📚The heavens are
yours,
the earth also is yours.
As for the world and
its fulness,
you have founded them.
12 📚You have created the north
and the south.
Tabor and Hermon will rejoice
in your name.
13 📚You have a mighty arm.
Your hand is strong, and
your right hand is exalted.
14 📚✭Righteousness and justice
are the foundation
of your throne.
Mercy and truth go before your face.
15 📚Blessed are the people
who know the joyful sound.
They will walk, O LORD, in the light
of your countenance.
16 📚In your name they will rejoice
all day long,
and in your righteousness
they will be exalted.
17 📚✭For you are the glory
of their strength,
and by 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 spoke in a vision
to your holy one, and said,
“I have granted help to one who
is mighty.
I have exalted one chosen
from the people.
20 📚I have found David my servant.
I have anointed him with
my holy oil.
21 📚With him my hand will be
established;
my arm will also strengthen him.
22 📚The enemy will not make him
a debtor,
nor will the son of wickedness
oppress him.
23 📚And I will beat down his foes
before his face,
and plague those who hate him.
24 📚✭But my faithfulness and
my mercy will be
with him,
and in my name his horn will be
exalted.
25 📚I will also set his hand
over the sea,
and his right hand over the rivers.
26 📚He will cry out to me,
‘You are my father✭,
my God,
and the rock✭ of my salvation.’
27 📚✭Also I will make him✭
my firstborn,
the highest✭ of the kings
of the earth.
28 📚✭I will keep my mercy
for him forevermore,
and my covenant will stand firm
with him.
29 📚I will also cause his offspring
to remain forever,
and his throne as long as the days
of heaven.
30 📚✭If his children forsake my law,
and do not walk in my judgments,
31 📚If they break my statutes,
and do not keep my commandments,
32 📚Then I will punish their
transgression with the rod,
and their wickedness with blows.
33 📚Nevertheless, I will not
completely take
my loving kindness from him,
or allow my faithfulness to fail.
34 📚I will not break my covenant,
or alter what has gone out
of my lips.
35 📚Once I have sworn by
my holiness that I
will not lie to David.
36 📚His offspring will remain forever,
and his throne as long
as the sun before me.
37 📚It will be established forever
like the moon,
and like the faithful witness
in the heavens”. Selah
38 📚✭But you have cast him
away and abhorred him.
You have been angry with your
anointed one.
39 📚You have spurned the covenant
with your servant.
You have defiled his crown
by throwing
it down on the ground.
40 📚You have broken down
all his walls;
you have brought his strongholds
to ruin.
41 📚All who pass by the way plunder
him.
He is an object of reproach
to his neighbours.
42 📚You have set up the right hand
of his foes.
You have caused all his enemies
to rejoice.
43 📚You have also turned away
the edge of his sword,
and have not caused him to stand
in battle.
44 📚You have made his glory cease,
and cast his throne down
to the ground.
45 📚You have shortened the days
of his youth.
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 there who
lives who will not see death?
Will he deliver his soul from the hand
of the grave✭? Selah
49 📚Lord, where are your former
acts of loving kindness,
which you swore to
David in your truth?
50 📚Remember, Lord, the scorn your
servants have endured,
how I bear in my heart
the taunting of
all the mighty people,
51 📚The scorn with which your
enemies have taunted,
O LORD, with which they
have taunted the footsteps of
your anointed one.
52 📚✭Blessed be the LORD
forevermore.
Amen, and Amen.