| 1 | I will sing of your steadfast love, O LORD, forever; with my mouth I will proclaim your faithfulness to all generations. | |
| 2 | I declare that your steadfast love is established forever; your faithfulness is as firm as the heavens. | |
| 3 | You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to my servant David: | |
| 4 | ‘I will establish your descendants forever, and build your throne for all generations.’” Selah | |
| 5 | Let the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones. | |
| 6 | For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD, | |
| 7 | a God feared in the council of the holy ones, great and awesome above all that are around him? | |
| 8 | O LORD God of hosts, who is as mighty as you, O LORD? Your faithfulness surrounds you. | |
| 9 | You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them. | |
| 10 | You crushed Rahab like a carcass; you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. | |
| 11 | The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it — you have founded them. | |
| 12 | The north and the south — you created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name. | |
| 13 | You have a mighty arm; strong is your hand, high your right hand. | |
| 14 | Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you. | |
| 15 | Happy are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance; | |
| 16 | they exult in your name all day long, and extol your righteousness. | |
| 17 | For you are the glory of their strength; by your favor our horn is exalted. | |
| 18 | For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel. | |
| 19 | Then you spoke in a vision to your faithful one, and said: “I have set the crown on one who is mighty, I have exalted one chosen from the people. | |
| 20 | I have found my servant David; with my holy oil I have anointed him; | |
| 21 | my hand shall always remain with him; my arm also shall strengthen him. | |
| 22 | The enemy shall not outwit him, the wicked shall not humble him. | |
| 23 | I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him. | |
| 24 | My faithfulness and steadfast love shall be with him; and in my name his horn shall be exalted. | |
| 25 | I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers. | |
| 26 | He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation!’ | |
| 27 | I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. | |
| 28 | Forever I will keep my steadfast love for him, and my covenant with him will stand firm. | |
| 29 | I will establish his line forever, and his throne as long as the heavens endure. | |
| 30 | If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my ordinances, | |
| 31 | if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments, | |
| 32 | then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with scourges; | |
| 33 | but I will not remove from him my steadfast love, or be false to my faithfulness. | |
| 34 | I will not violate my covenant, or alter the word that went forth from my lips. | |
| 35 | Once and for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David. | |
| 36 | His line shall continue forever, and his throne endure before me like the sun. | |
| 37 | It shall be established forever like the moon, an enduring witness in the skies.” Selah | |
| 38 | But now you have spurned and rejected him; you are full of wrath against your anointed. | |
| 39 | You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. | |
| 40 | You have broken through all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. | |
| 41 | All who pass by plunder him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors. | |
| 42 | You have exalted the right hand of his foes; you have made all his enemies rejoice. | |
| 43 | Moreover, you have turned back the edge of his sword, and you have not supported him in battle. | |
| 44 | You have removed the scepter from his hand, and hurled his throne to the ground. | |
| 45 | You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah | |
| 46 | How long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire? | |
| 47 | Remember how short my time is — for what vanity you have created all mortals! | |
| 48 | Who can live and never see death? Who can escape the power of Sheol? Selah | |
| 49 | Lord, where is your steadfast love of old, which by your faithfulness you swore to David? | |
| 50 | Remember, O Lord, how your servant is taunted; how I bear in my bosom the insults of the peoples, | |
| 51 | with which your enemies taunt, O LORD, with which they taunted the footsteps of your anointed. | |
| 52 | Blessed be the LORD forever. Amen and Amen. |