Psalm 89:20–37 | Liturgical Calendar

20

Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints, and saidst *

I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

21

I have found David my servant *

with my holy oil have I anointed him.

22

My hand shall hold him fast *

and my arm shall strengthen him.

23

The enemy shall not be able to do him violence *

the son of wickedness shall not hurt him.

24

I will smite down his foes before his face *

and plague them that hate him.

25

My truth also and my mercy shall be with him *

and in my Name shall his horn be exalted.

26

I will set his dominion also in the sea *

and his right hand in the floods.

27

He shall call me, Thou art my Father *

my God, and my strong salvation.

28

And I will make him my first-born *

higher than the kings of the earth.

29

My mercy will I keep for him for evermore *

and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

30

His seed also will I make to endure for ever *

and his throne as the days of heaven.

31

But if his children forsake my law *

and walk not in my judgements;

32

If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments *

I will visit their offences with the rod, and their sin with scourges.

33

Nevertheless, my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him *

nor suffer my truth to fail.

34

My covenant I will not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips *

I have sworn once by my holiness, that I will not fail David.

35

His seed shall endure for ever *

and his seat is like as the sun before me.

36

He shall stand fast for evermore as the moon *

and as the faithful witness in heaven.

37

But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine Anointed *

and art displeased at him.