89 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever; with my mouth will I make known Thy faithfulness to all generations.

² For I have said, “Mercy shall be built up for ever; Thy faithfulness shalt Thou establish in the very heavens.”

³ “I have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sworn unto David My servant:

⁴ ‘Thy Seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations.’” Selah

⁵ And the heavens shall praise Thy wonders, O Lord, Thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.

⁶ For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?

⁷ God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be held in reverence by all them that are about Him.

⁸ O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto Thee? Or to Thy faithfulness round about Thee?

⁹ Thou rulest the raging of the sea; when the waves thereof arise, Thou stillest them.

¹⁰ Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; Thou hast scattered Thine enemies with Thy strong arm.

¹¹ The heavens are Thine, the earth also is Thine; as for the world and the fullness thereof, Thou hast founded them.

¹² The north and the south, Thou hast created them; Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in Thy name.

¹³ Thou hast a mighty arm; strong is Thy hand, and high is Thy right hand.

¹⁴ Justice and judgment are the habitation of Thy throne; mercy and truth shall go before Thy face.

¹⁵ Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound! They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of Thy countenance.

¹⁶ In Thy name shall they rejoice all the day, and in Thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

¹⁷ For Thou art the glory of their strength, and in Thy favor our horn shall be exalted.

¹⁸ For the Lord is our defense, and the Holy One of Israel is our King.

¹⁹ Then Thou didst speak in a vision to Thy holy one and said, “I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

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

²¹ With him My hand shall be established; Mine arm shall also strengthen him.

²² The enemy shall not exact from him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

²³ And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

²⁴ But My faithfulness and My mercy shall be with him, and in My name shall his horn be exalted.

²⁵ I will set his hand also over the sea, and his right hand over the rivers.

²⁶ He shall cry unto Me, ‘Thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.’

²⁷ Also I will make him My firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.

²⁸ My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and My covenant shall stand fast with him.

²⁹ His Seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

³⁰ If his children forsake My law and walk not in My judgments,

³¹ if they break My statutes and keep not My commandments,

³² then will I visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.

³³ Nevertheless My lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor permit My faithfulness to fail.

³⁴ My covenant will I not break, nor alter the things which have gone out of My lips.

³⁵ Once have I sworn by My holiness that I will not lie unto David.

³⁶ His Seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before Me.

³⁷ It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in the heaven.” Selah

³⁸ But Thou hast cast off and abhorred; Thou hast been wroth with Thine anointed.

³⁹ Thou hast made void the covenant of Thy servant; Thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

⁴⁰ Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

⁴¹ All that pass by the way despoil him; he is a reproach to his neighbors.

⁴² Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

⁴³ Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

⁴⁴ Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

⁴⁵ The days of his youth hast Thou shortened, Thou hast covered him with shame. Selah

⁴⁶ How long, Lord? Wilt Thou hide Thyself for ever? Shall Thy wrath burn like fire?

⁴⁷ Remember how short my time is; why hast Thou made all men in vain?

⁴⁸ What man is he that liveth and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah

⁴⁹ Lord, where are Thy former lovingkindnesses, which Thou hast sworn unto David in Thy truth?

⁵⁰ Remember, Lord, the reproach against Thy servants” how I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people

⁵¹ wherewith Thine enemies have reproached, O Lord, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of Thine anointed.

⁵² Blessed be the Lord for evermore! Amen and Amen.

90 Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

² Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God.

³ Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, “Return, ye children of men.”

⁴ For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

⁵ Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up;

⁶ in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.

⁷ For we are consumed by Thine anger, and by Thy wrath are we troubled.

⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, our secret sins in the light of Thy countenance.

⁹ For all our days are passed away in Thy wrath; we spend our years as a tale that is told.

¹⁰ The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off and we fly away.

¹¹ Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? Even according to the fear of Thee, so is Thy wrath.

¹² So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

¹³ Return, O Lord! How long? And let Thee repent concerning Thy servants.

¹⁴ O satisfy us early with Thy mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

¹⁵ Make us glad according to the days wherein Thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

¹⁶ Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, and Thy glory unto their children.

¹⁷ And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish Thou the work of our hands for us—yea, the work of our hands, establish Thou it.

14 Receive ye him that is weak in the faith, but not to judge his doubtful disputations.

² For one believeth that he may eat all things, while another who is weak eateth herbs.

³ Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him that eateth not, judge him that eateth; for God hath received him.

⁴ Who art thou who judgest another man’s servant? To his own master he standeth or falleth; yea, he shall be held up, for God is able to make him stand.

⁵ One man esteemeth one day above another; another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

⁶ He that regardeth one day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not that day, to the Lord doth he not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not and giveth God thanks.

⁷ For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

⁸ For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Whether we live therefore or die, we are the Lord’s.

⁹ For to this end Christ both died, and arose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

¹⁰ But why dost thou judge thy brother? Or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

¹¹ For it is written: “‘As I live,’ saith the Lord, ‘every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God.’”

¹² So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

¹³ Let us not therefore judge one another any more, but judge this rather: that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.

¹⁴ I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him that regardeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

¹⁵ But if thy brother be grieved because of thy meat, thou walkest no longer charitably. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died.

¹⁶ Let not your good be spoken of as evil;

¹⁷ for the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

¹⁸ For he that in these things serveth Christ, is acceptable to God and approved by men.

¹⁹ Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and the things wherewith one may edify another.

²⁰ Destroy not the work of God for the sake of meat. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for that man to eat what causeth offense.

²¹ It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

²² Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.

²³ And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not from faith; for whatsoever is not from faith is sin.