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| 1. | Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite. |
| 2. | The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation. |
| 3. | For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them. |
| 4. | I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant: |
| 5. | Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation. |
| 6. | The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints. |
| 7. | For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God? |
| 8. | God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him. |
| 9. | O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee. |
| 10. | Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof. |
| 11. | Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies. |
| 12. | Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded: |
| 13. | the north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name: |
| 14. | thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted: |
| 15. | justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face: |
| 16. | blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance: |
| 17. | and in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted. |
| 18. | For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted. |
| 19. | For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel. |
| 20. | Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people. |
| 21. | I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him. |
| 22. | For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him. |
| 23. | The enemy shall have no advantage over him: nor the son of iniquity have power to hurt him. |
| 24. | And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that hate him I will put to flight. |
| 25. | And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. |
| 26. | And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the rivers. |
| 27. | He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the support of my salvation. |
| 28. | And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth. |
| 29. | I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him. |
| 30. | And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven. |
| 31. | And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments: |
| 32. | If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments: |
| 33. | I will visit their iniquities with a rod: and their sins with stripes. |
| 34. | But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail. |
| 35. | Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void. |
| 36. | Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: |
| 37. | his seed shall endure for ever. |
| 38. | And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for ever, and a faithful witness in heaven. |
| 39. | But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with thy anointed. |
| 40. | Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth. |
| 41. | Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear. |
| 42. | All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours. |
| 43. | Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. |
| 44. | Thou hast turned away the help of his sword; and hast not assisted him in battle. |
| 45. | Thou hast made his purification to cease: and thou hast cast his throne down to the ground. |
| 46. | Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him with confusion. |
| 47. | How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire? |
| 48. | Remember what my substance is for hast thou made all the children of men in vain? |
| 49. | Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell? |
| 50. | Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst swear to David in thy truth? |
| 51. | Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations: |
| 52. | Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the change of thy anointed. |
| 53. | Blessed be the Lord for evermore. So be it. So be it. |