1 I will sing of the mercy and loving-kindness of the Lord forever; with my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness from generation to generation.

2 F or I have said, Mercy and loving-kindness shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness will You establish in the very heavens.

3 I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant,

4 Y our Seed I will establish forever, and I will build up your throne for all generations. Selah!

5 L et heaven (the angels) praise Your wonders, O Lord, Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones (the holy angels).

6 F or who in the heavens can be compared to the Lord? Who among the mighty can be likened to the Lord,

7 A God greatly feared and revered in the council of the holy (angelic) ones, and to be feared and worshipfully revered above all those who are round about Him?

8 O Lord God of hosts, who is a mighty one like unto You, O Lord? And Your faithfulness is round about You.

9 Y ou rule the raging of the sea; when its waves arise, You still them.

10 Y ou have broken Rahab (Egypt) in pieces; with Your mighty arm You have scattered Your enemies.

11 T he heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; the world and all that is in it, You have founded them.

12 T he north and the south, You have created them; Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon joyously praise Your name.

13 Y ou have a mighty arm; strong is Your hand, Your right hand is soaring high.

14 R ighteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; mercy and loving-kindness and truth go before Your face.

15 B lessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are the people who know the joyful sound; they walk, O Lord, in the light and favor of Your countenance!

16 I n Your name they rejoice all the day, and in Your righteousness they are exalted.

17 F or You are the glory of their strength, and by Your favor our horn is exalted and we walk with uplifted faces!

18 F or our shield belongs to the Lord, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.

19 O nce You spoke in a vision to Your devoted ones and said, I have endowed one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from among the people.

20 I have found David My servant; with My holy oil have I anointed him,

21 W ith whom My hand shall be established and ever abide; My arm also shall strengthen him.

22 T he enemy shall not exact from him or do him violence or outwit him, nor shall the wicked afflict and humble him.

23 I will beat down his foes before his face and smite those who hate him.

24 M y faithfulness and My mercy and loving-kindness shall be with him, and in My name shall his horn be exalted.

25 I will set his hand in control also on the Sea, and his right hand on the rivers.

26 H e shall cry to Me, You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation!

27 A lso I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

28 M y mercy and loving-kindness will I keep for him forevermore, and My covenant shall stand fast and be faithful with him.

29 H is Offspring also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

30 I f his children forsake My law and walk not in My ordinances,

31 I f they break or profane My statutes and keep not My commandments,

32 T hen will I punish their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

33 N evertheless, My loving-kindness will I not break off from him, nor allow My faithfulness to fail.

34 M y covenant will I not break or profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips.

35 O nce have I sworn by My holiness, which cannot be violated; I will not lie to David:

36 H is Offspring shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me.

37 I t shall be established forever as the moon, the faithful witness in the heavens. Selah!

38 B ut You have cast off and rejected; You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.

39 Y ou have despised and loathed and renounced the covenant with Your servant; You have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

40 Y ou have broken down all his hedges and his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

41 A ll who pass along the road spoil and rob him; he has become the scorn and reproach of his neighbors.

42 Y ou have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.

43 M oreover, You have turned back the edge of his sword and have not made him to stand in battle.

44 Y ou have made his glory and splendor to cease and have hurled to the ground his throne.

45 T he days of his youth have You shortened; You have covered him with shame. Selah!

46 H ow long, O Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? How long shall Your wrath burn like fire?

47 O remember how short my time is and what a mere fleeting life mine is. For what emptiness, falsity, futility, and frailty You have created all men!

48 W hat man can live and shall not see death, or can deliver himself from the hand of Sheol (the place of the dead)? Selah!

49 L ord, where are Your former loving-kindnesses, which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?

50 R emember, Lord, and earnestly imprint the reproach of Your servants, scorned and insulted, how I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many and mighty peoples,

51 W ith which Your enemies have taunted, O Lord, with which they have mocked the footsteps of Your anointed.

52 B lessed be the Lord forevermore! Amen and Amen.