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¹I WILL sing of the mercies of Yahvah forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. ²For I have said, The world will be built up with mercy; your faithfulness you will establish in the very heavens. ³I have made a contract with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant, ⁴Your offspring I will establish forever, and build up your throne to all generations.

⁵And the heavens will praise your wonders, oh Yahvah, also your faithfulness in the congregation of the saints. ⁶For who in heaven can be compared to Yahvah? Who among the angels can be likened to Yahvah? ⁷God stands forth in the assembly of the saints, great and revered above all that are about him. ⁸Oh Yahvah God of hosts, who is mighty like you? Your faithfulness is around you. ⁹You rule the splendor of the sea; you still its waves. ¹⁰You have humbled the proud as those who are slain; you have scattered your enemies with your strong arm. ¹¹The heavens are yours, the earth is also yours; as for the world and its fullness, you have founded them. ¹²The north and the south, you have created them; Tabor and Hermon glorify your name. ¹³Yours is the arm, and yours is the might; your hand is strong and your right hand will be exalted. ¹⁴Your throne is built on righteousness and judgment; mercy and truth go before your face.

¹⁵Blessed is the people that understand your glory; they will walk, oh Yahvah, in the light of your countenance. ¹⁶In your name they will rejoice all the day; and in your righteousness they will be exalted. ¹⁷For you are the glory of our strength; and in your favor our horn will be exalted. ¹⁸For Yahvah is our hope; and the Holy One of Israel is our King.

¹⁹Then he spoke in visions to his righteous one, and he said, I have given help to a man; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. ²⁰I have found David my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him. ²¹My hand has helped him; my arm has also strengthened him. ²²The enemy will not prevail on him, nor the sons of the wicked afflict him. ²³And I will destroy his foes before his face, and plague those who hate him. ²⁴But my faithfulness and my mercy will be with him; and in my name his horn will be exalted. ²⁵I will also set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. ²⁶He will cry to me, You are my father, my God, and my mighty Savior. ²⁷I will also make him my firstborn, and will exalt him over the kings of the earth. ²⁸My mercy I will keep for him forever, and my contract will stand fast with him. ²⁹His offspring I will also make endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. ³⁰If his children forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments; ³¹If they break my statutes and do not keep my commandments; ³²Then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. ³³Nevertheless, my lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, nor permit my faithfulness to fail. ³⁴Neither will I reject my contract, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. ³⁵Once I have sworn by my holiness to David, and I will not lie. ³⁶His offspring will endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. ³⁷It will be established forever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.

³⁸But you have forsaken us and despised us, you have made your anointed one to turn his face. ³⁹You have rejected the contract of your servant; you have cast his crown to the ground. ⁴⁰You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strongholds to ruin. ⁴¹All that pass by have trampled on him; he has become a disgrace to his neighbors. ⁴²You have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice. ⁴³You have turned the edge of his sword, and have not sustained him in the battle. ⁴⁴You have made his glory cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. ⁴⁵The days of his youth you have shortened; you have covered him with shame. ⁴⁶How long, Yahvah, will you be angry? Forever? Will your wrath burn like fire? ⁴⁷Remember me from the time I was created; for you have not created all men in vain. ⁴⁸Who is the man who lives and will not see death? Will he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol? ⁴⁹Lord, where are your former lovingkindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth? ⁵⁰Remember, Lord, the disgrace of your servants; for I have borne throughout my life the mockery of the Gentiles; ⁵¹With which your enemies have disgraced me, oh Yahvah; with which they have disgraced the footsteps of your anointed. ⁵²Blessed be Yahvah forever. Amen and Amen.