I Will Sing of His Love Forever

1A Maskil† of Ethan the Ezrahite.

1 I will sing of the loving devotion of YHWH forever.

To generation and generation I will make known Your faithfulness with my mouth.

2For I have said, “Loving devotion is built up forever;

the heavens—You establish Your faithfulness in them.”

3“I have cut a covenant with My chosen one,

I have sworn to David My servant:

4‘Even to forever I will establish Your seed,

and build up for generation and generation your throne.’”

Selah

5and the heavens will praise Your wonders, O YHWH,

and Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

6For who in the heavens can be compared to YHWH,

likened to YHWH among the sons of the mighty?†

7God is to be feared greatly in the council of the holy ones,

and to be revered by all those surrounding Him.

8O YHWH, God of Hosts,

who is like You, O mighty YAH?

And Your faithfulness surrounds You!

9You rule over the pride of the sea;

its waves mount up, and You still them.

10You crushed Rahab as one slain;

with the arm of Your strength, You scattered Your enemies.

11Unto You are the heavens; the earth also is unto You;

the world and its fullness—You have founded them.

12The north and the south, You have created them;

Tabor and Hermon ring out praise in Your name.

13Unto You is an arm with might; strong is Your hand;

high is Your right hand.

14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;

loving devotion and faithfulness go before Your face.

15Blessed are the people knowing the joyful sound;

O YHWH, in the light of Your face they walk.

16In Your name they rejoice all the day,

and in Your righteousness they are lifted high.

17For You are the splendor of their strength,

and by Your favor our horn is raised high.

18Indeed, unto YHWH is our shield,

and our king unto the Holy One of Israel.

19Once You spoke in a vision

to Your holy ones, and said:

“I have given help to a mighty one;

I have exalted one chosen from the people.

20I have found David My servant;

with the oil of My holiness I anointed him,

21with whom My hand is established—

My arm also will strengthen him.

22The enemy will not exact tribute from him,

and a son of wickedness shall not afflict him.

23And I will crush his foes before his face,

and those hating him I will strike.

24And My faithfulness and My loving devotion are with him,

and in My name his horn will be exalted.

25And I will set his hand over the sea,

and his right hand over the rivers.

26He will call to Me, ‘You are My Father,

my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’

27I also appoint him firstborn,

the highest of the kings of the earth.

28Forever I will keep for him My loving devotion,

and My covenant will stand fast for him.

29And I will establish His seed forever,

and his throne like the days of the heavens.

30If his sons should abandon My instruction,

and do not walk in My ordinances,

31if they violate My statutes,

and do not keep My commandments,

32then I will attend to their transgression with the rod,

and to their iniquity with stripes.

33And I will not break off My loving devotion from him,

and I will not be false in My faithfulness.

34I will not violate My covenant,

and a declaration of My lips I will not change.

35Once I have sworn by My holiness—

I will not lie to David—

36His seed shall be forever,

and his throne like the sun before Me.

37Like the moon It will be established forever,

even as the faithful witness in the sky.”

Selah

38and You have cast away and rejected;

You have been enraged with Your anointed.

39You have renounced the covenant of Your servant;

You have defiled his diadem on the ground.

40You have broken down all his walls;

You have set his strongholds to ruin.

41All passing by the way plunder him;

he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

42You have raised high the right hand of his adversaries;

all of his enemies You have made glad.

43Also You have turned back the sharpness of his sword,

and You have not made it stand in the battle.

44You have made his brightness cease,

and You have cast down his throne to the ground.

45You have shortened the days of his youth;

You have covered over him with shame.

Selah

46until when, O YHWH?

Will You hide Yourself forever?

Will Your rage keep burning like fire?

47Remember me—how short a lifetime;

for what emptiness You created all the sons of men!

48What man can live and not see death?

Can he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol?

Selah

49where is Your loving devotion is Your Of old, O Lord,

which You swore of David in Your faithfulness?

50Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants—

I bear in my bosom from all the many peoples,

51with which Your enemies have taunted, O YHWH,

with which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed one.

52Blessed be YHWH forever!

Amen and Amen.