Psalm 89

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89 I will always sing about the Lord's faithful love.
I will tell my children and my grandchildren
    that you are always faithful.
² Yes! Your faithful love will always continue to be strong.
You will always be faithful,
    as the skies will always be there.
³ The Lord has said,
‘I have made a covenant with the king that I chose.
    I have made this strong promise to my servant David:
⁴ “Someone from your family will always be king.
    They will rule for ever.” ’
Selah.
⁵ Lord, everything in heaven praises you
    for the great things that you have done.
Yes, your angels meet together to praise you,
    because you are always faithful.
⁶ In all the heavens,
    there is no one like you, Lord!
No angel in heaven is equal to you.
⁷ When the angels meet together in heaven,
    they respect you with fear.
All who meet round your throne in heaven respect you,
    as you deserve.
⁸ Lord God Almighty,
    no one is as powerful as you!
You are always faithful in all that you do!
⁹ You rule over the powerful sea.
When the waves rise up,
    you make them quiet again.
¹⁰ You caught the monster Rahab
    and you killed it!
With your power,
    you chased away your enemies.
¹¹ The heavens belong to you
    and so does the earth.
You made the world
    and everything that is in it.
¹² You made everything,
    from the north to the south.
Tabor and Hermon are happy to praise your name.^[b]
13 You have great strength,
    and you can do great things.
You hold up your right hand,
    as you win against your enemies.
¹⁴ As King, you rule with justice,
    and you always do what is right.
You show your faithful love and you are faithful.
¹⁵ You have truly blessed the people
    who know how to praise you, Lord.
They know that you are pleased with them.
¹⁶ They praise your name all the time.
    Your justice makes them happy.
¹⁷ You give strength and glory to your people.
Because you are kind to us,
    we win against our enemies.
¹⁸ Yes! Our king belongs to the Lord,
    and he protects us like a shield.
Our king belongs to the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹ A long time ago, Lord,
    you spoke to your servants.
In a vision, you said to them,
‘I have helped a brave soldier to be strong.
I have chosen as king
    a young man from among the people.
²⁰ I have found David, my servant.
I have poured my special oil on him,
    to make him king.
²¹ I will help him with my power,
    so that he is strong.
²² No enemy will win against him.
    No cruel people will have power to hurt him.
²³ I will destroy his enemies in front of him
    I will kill those who hate him.
²⁴ I will always be faithful
    and show him my faithful love.
By my name he will win against his enemies.
²⁵ I will cause his kingdom to reach
    beyond the sea and the rivers.
²⁶ The king will say to me, “You are my Father.
    You are my God.
    You protect me and you rescue me.”
²⁷ Also, I will make him my firstborn son.
    He will be the greatest of the kings of the earth.
²⁸ I will always love him with my faithful love.
I will never change the covenant
    that I have made with him.
²⁹ Someone from his family will always be king.
They will rule for ever,
    as long as there are skies above us.
^30-31 But I will punish his descendants,
    if they do not accept my laws.
If they do not obey my teaching, my rules, or my commands,
³²     I will punish them.
Because of their sins,
    I will give them much pain.
³³ But I will not take my faithful love away from David.
I will always be faithful,
    and I will do what I have promised to him.
³⁴ I will not spoil the covenant that I have made with him.
    I will always keep my promises.
³⁵ I made that promise to David at one time,
    and that will not change.
I promised him by my holy name
    and I will never deceive him.
³⁶ His descendants will always rule.
His kingdom will continue to be there for ever,
    as long as the sun shines.
³⁷ As the moon is always there in the sky,
    to show that God is faithful,
David's kingdom will also continue.’
Selah.

³⁸ But now you have turned against your king.
    You have become angry with the king that you have chosen.
³⁹ You have spoiled the covenant
    that you made with your servant.
You have thrown his crown into the dirt.
⁴⁰ You have knocked down all the walls of his city.
    You have destroyed all his strong places.
⁴¹ Every stranger robs him of his things.
    His neighbours laugh at him.
⁴² You have made his enemies strong,
    so that they win against him and they are happy.
⁴³ You have made his weapons useless,
    so that he cannot beat his enemies in war.
⁴⁴ You have taken away his authority as king.
You have knocked down his throne to the ground.
⁴⁵ He no longer has the strength of a young man.
    You have dressed him in clothes of shame.
Selah.
⁴⁶ Lord, how long will this continue?
    Will you hide yourself from us for ever?
Will your anger continue to burn like a fire?
⁴⁷ Remember that my life is very short!
People are weak and their lives seem useless.
    Why do you make people like that?
⁴⁸ Nobody can continue to live and never die.
    Nobody can escape from the power of death.
⁴⁹ My Lord, where is the faithful love
    that you showed to us in past times?
Where are the blessings that you promised to David?
⁵⁰ My Lord, look at how people are insulting me!
People from all nations laugh at me, your servant.
⁵¹ Lord, your enemies insult the king that you have chosen.
    Wherever I go, they insult me!