[1] I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations.
[2] For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: your faithfulness shall 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 shall 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 thereof 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 is yours: as for the world and the fullness thereof, you have founded them.
[12] The north and the south you have created them: Tabor and Hermon shall 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 shall go before your face.
[15] Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance.
[16] In your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted.
[17] For you are the glory of their strength: and in your favor our horn shall be exalted.
[18] For the LORD is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
[19] Then you spoke 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 whom my hand shall be established: my arm also shall strengthen him.
[22] The enemy shall 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 shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
[25] I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
[26] He shall 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 ever more, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
[29] His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
[30] If his children forsake 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 loving kindness 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 shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
[37] It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
[38] But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been wroth 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 reproach to his neighbors.
[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 for ever? shall 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 shall not see death? shall 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 reproach of your servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
[51] With which your enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.
[52] Blessed be the LORD for ever more. Amen, and Amen.
