• Sing of the Lovingkindness of Yahweh Forever

  • 1 I will sing of the lovingkindnesses of Yahweh forever; From generation to generation 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 cut a covenant with My chosen; I have sworn to David My servant,
  • 4 I will establish your seed forever And build up your throne from generation to generation.” Selah.
  • 5 The heavens will praise Your wonders, O Yahweh; Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
  • 6 For who in the sky is comparable to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the mighty is like Yahweh,
  • 7 A God greatly dreaded in the council of the holy ones, And fearsome above all those who are around Him?
  • 8 O Yahweh God of hosts, who is like You, O mighty Yah? 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 strong arm.
  • 11 The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and its fullness, You have founded them.
  • 12 The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon sing with joy at Your name.
  • 13 You have a mighty arm; Your hand is strong, 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 loud shout of joy! O Yahweh, they walk in the light of Your face.
  • 16 In Your name they rejoice all the day, And by Your righteousness they are exalted.
  • 17 For You are the beauty of their strength, And by Your favor our horn is exalted.
  • 18 For our shield belongs to Yahweh, And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
  • 19 Formerly You spoke in vision to Your holy ones, And said, “I have bestowed help to a mighty one; 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 unrighteousness 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 call 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 set up his seed to endure 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 profane My statutes And do not keep My commandments,
  • 32 Then I will punish their transgression with the rod And their iniquity with striking.
  • 33 “But I will not break off My lovingkindness from him, Nor deal falsely in My faithfulness.
  • 34 “My covenant I will not profane, Nor will I alter what comes forth from My lips.
  • 35 “Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David.
  • 36 “His seed 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 slave; You have profaned his crown to the ground.
  • 40 You have broken down all his walls; You have beset his strongholds with 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 be glad.
  • 43 You also turn back the edge of his sword And have not made him arise 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 wrapped him up with shame. Selah.
  • 46 How long, O Yahweh? 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 provide his soul escape 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 slaves; How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many peoples,
  • 51 With which Your enemies have reproached, O Yahweh, With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed.
  • 52 Blessed be Yahweh forever! Amen and Amen.