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[[A Psalm Chapter to give instruction, of Ethan the Ezrahite.]]
[1] I will sing the mercies of the Lord forever: with my mouth will I declare thy truth from generation to generation.
[2] For I said, Mercy shall be set up forever: thy truth shalt thou stablish in the very heavens.
[3] I have made a covenant with my chosen: I have sworn to David my servant,
[4] Thy seed will I stablish forever, and set up thy throne from generation to generation. Selah.
[5] O Lord, even the heavens shall praise thy wondrous work: yea, thy truth in the congregation of the saints.
[6] For who is equal to the Lord in the heaven? And who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?
[7] God is very terrible in the assembly of the saints, and to be reverenced above all, that are about him.
[8] O Lord God of hosts, who is like unto thee, which art a mighty Lord, and thy truth is about thee?
[9] Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
[10] Thou hast beaten down Rahab as a man slain: thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy mighty arm.
[11] The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast laid the foundation of the world, and all that therein is.
[12] Thou hast created the north and the south: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
[13] Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thine hand , and high is thy right hand.
[14] Righteousness and equity are the stablishment of thy throne: mercy and truth go before thy face.
[15] Blessed is the people, that can rejoice in thee: they shall walk in the light of thy countenance, O Lord.
[16] They shall rejoice continually in thy name, and in thy righteousness shall they exalt themselves.
[17] For thou art the glory of their strength, and by thy favor our horns shall be exalted.
[18] For our shield appertaineth to the Lord, and our King to the Holy One of Israel.
[19] Thou spakest then in a vision unto thine Holy One, and saidest, 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 mine holy oil have I anointed him.
[21] Therefore mine hand shall be established with him, and mine arm shall strengthen him.
[22] The enemy shall not oppress him, neither shall the wicked hurt him.
[23] But I will destroy his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
[24] My truth also 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 floods.
[26] He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, my God and the rock of my salvation.
[27] Also I will make him my first born, higher than the kings of the earth.
[28] My mercy will I keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
[29] His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
[30] But 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 strokes.
[33] Yet my loving kindness will I not take from him, neither will I falsify my truth.
[34] My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
[35] I have sworn once by mine holiness, that I will not fail David, saying,
[36] His seed shall endure forever, and his throne shall be as the sun before me.
[37] He shall be established forevermore as the moon, and as a faithful witness in the heaven. Selah.
[38] But thou hast rejected and abhorred, thou hast been angry with thine Anointed.
[39] Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant , and profaned his crown, casting it on the ground.
[40] Thou hast broken down all his walls: thou hast laid his fortresses in ruin.
[41] All that go by the way, spoil him: he is a rebuke unto his neighbors.
[42] Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies, and made all his adversaries to rejoice.
[43] Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
[44] Thou hast caused his dignity to decay, and cast his throne to the ground.
[45] The days of his youth hast thou shortened, and covered him with shame. Selah.
[46] Lord, how long wilt thou hide thyself, forever? Shall thy wrath burn like fire?
[47] Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vain all the children of men?
[48] What man liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
[49] Lord, where are thy former mercies, which thou swearest unto David in thy truth?
[50] Remember, O Lord, the rebuke of thy servants, which I bear in my bosom of all the mighty people.
[51] For thine enemies have reproached thee, O Lord, because they have reproached the footsteps of thine Anointed.
[52] Praised be the Lord forevermore. So be it, even so be it.
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