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III

20 Then you spoke in vision;(A)
    to your faithful ones you said:
“I have set a leader over the warriors;
    I have raised up a chosen one from the people.

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21 I have chosen David, my servant;
    with my holy oil I have anointed him.
22 My hand will be with him;(A)
    my arm will make him strong.

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25 My faithfulness and mercy will be with him;
    through my name his horn will be exalted.
26 [a]I will set his hand upon the sea,
    his right hand upon the rivers.

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Footnotes

  1. 89:26 The sea…the rivers: geographically the limits of the Davidic empire (the Mediterranean and the Euphrates); mythologically, the traditional forces of chaos. See note on Ps 89:11.