| 1 | An instruction, by Ethan the Ezrahite. Of the kind acts of Jehovah, to the age I sing, To all generations I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth, |
| 2 | For I said, 'To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.' |
| 3 | I have made a covenant for My chosen, I have sworn to David My servant: |
| 4 | 'Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah. |
| 5 | and the heavens confess Thy wonders, O Jehovah, Thy faithfulness also [is] in an assembly of holy ones. |
| 6 | For who in the sky, Compareth himself to Jehovah? Is like to Jehovah among sons of the mighty? |
| 7 | God is very terrible, In the secret counsel of His holy ones, And fearful over all surrounding Him. |
| 8 | O Jehovah, God of Hosts, Who [is] like Thee—a strong Jah? And Thy faithfulness [is] round about Thee. |
| 9 | Thou [art] ruler over the pride of the sea, In the lifting up of its billows Thou dost restrain them. |
| 10 | Thou hast bruised Rahab, as one wounded. With the arm of Thy strength Thou hast scattered Thine enemies. |
| 11 | Thine [are] the heavens—the earth also [is] Thine, The habitable world and its fulness, Thou hast founded them. |
| 12 | North and south Thou hast appointed them, Tabor and Hermon in Thy name do sing. |
| 13 | Thou hast an arm with might, Strong is Thy hand—high Thy right hand. |
| 14 | Righteousness and judgment [Are] the fixed place of Thy throne, Kindness and truth go before Thy face. |
| 15 | O the happiness of the people knowing the shout, O Jehovah, in the light of Thy face they walk habitually. |
| 16 | In Thy name they rejoice all the day, And in Thy righteousness they are exalted, |
| 17 | For the beauty of their strength [art] Thou, And in Thy good will is our horn exalted, |
| 18 | For of Jehovah [is] our shield, And of the Holy One of Israel our king. |
| 19 | Then Thou hast spoken in vision, To Thy saint, yea, Thou sayest, I have placed help upon a mighty one, Exalted a chosen one out of the people, |
| 20 | I have found David My servant, With My holy oil I have anointed him. |
| 21 | With whom My hand is established, My arm also doth strengthen him. |
| 22 | An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not. |
| 23 | And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague, |
| 24 | And My faithfulness and kindness [are] with him, And in My name is his horn exalted. |
| 25 | And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand. |
| 26 | He proclaimeth me: 'Thou [art] my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.' |
| 27 | I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth. |
| 28 | To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant [is] stedfast with him. |
| 29 | And I have set his seed for ever, And his throne as the days of the heavens. |
| 30 | If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk; |
| 31 | If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep, |
| 32 | I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity, |
| 33 | And My kindness I break not from him, Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness. |
| 34 | I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not. |
| 35 | Once I have sworn by My holiness, I lie not to David, |
| 36 | His seed is to the age, And his throne [is] as the sun before Me, |
| 37 | As the moon it is established—to the age, And the witness in the sky is stedfast. Selah. |
| 38 | And Thou, Thou hast cast off, and dost reject, Thou hast shown Thyself wroth With Thine anointed, |
| 39 | Hast rejected the covenant of Thy servant, Thou hast polluted to the earth his crown, |
| 40 | Thou hast broken down all his hedges, Thou hast made his fenced places a ruin. |
| 41 | Spoiled him have all passing by the way, He hath been a reproach to his neighbours, |
| 42 | Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries, Thou hast caused all his enemies to rejoice. |
| 43 | Also—Thou turnest back the sharpness of his sword, And hast not established him in battle, |
| 44 | Hast caused [him] to cease from his brightness, And his throne to the earth hast cast down. |
| 45 | Thou hast shortened the days of his youth, Hast covered him over [with] shame. Selah. |
| 46 | Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire? |
| 47 | Remember, I pray Thee, what [is] life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men? |
| 48 | Who [is] the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah. |
| 49 | Where [are] Thy former kindnesses, O Lord. Thou hast sworn to David in Thy faithfulness, |
| 50 | Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Thy servants, I have borne in my bosom all the strivings of the peoples, |
| 51 | Wherewith Thine enemies reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached The steps of Thine anointed. |
| 52 | Blessed [is] Jehovah to the age. Amen, and amen! |