1 - Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah for ever: With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
2 - For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.
3 - I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant:
4 - Thy seed will I establish for ever, And build up thy throne to all generations. Selah
5 - And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah; Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
6 - For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Jehovah,
7 - A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, And to be feared above all them that are round about him?
8 - O Jehovah God of hosts, Who is a mighty one, like unto thee, O Jehovah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.
9 - Thou rulest the pride of the sea: When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
10 - Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.
11 - The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
12 - The north and the south, thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.
13 - Thou hast a mighty arm; Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
14 - Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne: Lovingkindness and truth go before thy face.
15 - Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.
16 - In thy name do they rejoice all the day; And in thy righteousness are they exalted.
17 - For thou art the glory of their strength; And in thy favor our horn shall be exalted.
18 - For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah; And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
19 - Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints, And saidst, I have laid help upon 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; Mine arm also shall strengthen him.
22 - The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
23 - And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And smite them that hate him.
24 - But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be with him; And in my name shall his horn be exalted.
25 - I will set his hand also on the sea, And his right hand on the rivers.
26 - He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.
27 - I also will make him [my] first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth.
28 - My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore; 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 mine ordinances;
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 - But my lovingkindness 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: I will not lie unto 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] the faithful witness in the sky. Selah
38 - But thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
39 - Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground.
40 - Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.
41 - All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors.
42 - Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries; Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
43 - Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast not made him to stand in the battle.
44 - Thou hast made his brightness to cease, And cast his throne down to the ground.
45 - The days of his youth hast thou shortened: Thou hast covered him with shame. Selah
46 - How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? [How long] shall thy wrath burn like fire?
47 - Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
48 - What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
49 - Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?
50 - Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty peoples,
51 - Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
52 - Blessed be Jehovah for evermore. Amen, and Amen. BOOK IV