1I will sing the mercies of the Lord forever: with my mouth will I declare thy truth from generation to generation.
2For I said, Mercy shall be set up forever: thy truth shalt thou stablish in the very heavens.
3I have made a covenant with my chosen: I have sworn to David my servant,
4Thy seed will I stablish forever, and set up thy throne from generation to generation. Selah.
5O Lord, even the heavens shall praise thy wondrous work: yea, thy truth in the Congregation of the Saints.
6For who is equal to the Lord in the heaven? and who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?
7God is very terrible in the assembly of the Saints, and to be reverenced above all that are about him.
8O Lord God of hosts, who is like unto thee, which art a mighty Lord, and thy truth is about thee?
9Thou rulest the raging of the Sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
10Thou hast beaten down Rahab as a man slain: thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy mighty arm.
11The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast laid the foundation of the world, and all that therein is.
12Thou hast created the North and the South: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy Name.
13Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
14Righteousness and equity are the stablishment of thy throne: mercy and truth go before thy face.
15Blessed is the people that can rejoice in thee: they shall walk in the light of thy countenance, O Lord.
16They shall rejoice continually in thy Name, and in thy righteousness shall they exalt themselves.
17For thou art the glory of their strength, and by thy favor our horns shall be exalted.
18For our shield appertaineth to the Lord, and our King to the Holy one of Israel.
19Thou 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.
20I have found David my servant: with mine holy oil have I anointed him.
21Therefore mine hand shall be established with him, and mine arm shall strengthen him.
22The enemy shall not oppress him, neither shall the wicked hurt him.
23But I will destroy his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
24My truth also and my mercy shall be with him, and in my Name shall his horn be exalted.
25I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the floods.
26He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
27Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
28My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my Covenant shall stand fast with him.
29His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
30But if his children forsake my Law, and walk not in my judgments:
31If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments:
32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with strokes.
33Yet my loving kindness will I not take from him, neither will I falsify my truth.
34My Covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35I have sworn once by mine holiness, that I will not fail David, saying,
36His seed shall endure forever, and his throne shall be as the sun before me.
37He shall be established for evermore as the moon, and as a faithful witness in the heaven. Selah.
38But thou hast rejected and abhorred, thou hast been angry with thine anointed.
39Thou hast broken the Covenant of thy servant, and profaned his crown, casting it on the ground.
40Thou hast broken down all his walls: thou hast laid his fortresses in ruin.
41All that go by the way, spoil him: he is a rebuke unto his neighbors.
42Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies, and made all his adversaries to rejoice.
43Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
44Thou hast caused his dignity to decay, and cast his throne to the ground.
45The days of his youth hast thou shortened, and covered him with shame. Selah.
46Lord, how long wilt thou hide thyself, forever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
47Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vain all the children of men?
48What man liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
49Lord, where are thy former mercies, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
50Remember, O Lord, the rebuke of thy servants, which I bear in my bosom of all the mighty people.
51For thine enemies have reproached thee, O Lord, because they have reproached the footsteps of thine Anointed.
52Praised be the Lord for evermore. So be it, even so be it.