Psalm 89:19-52

New Living Translation

¹⁹Long ago you spoke in a vision to your faithful people.
You said, “I have raised up a warrior.
    I have selected him from the common people to be king.
²⁰I have found my servant David.
    I have anointed him with my holy oil.
²¹I will steady him with my hand;
    with my powerful arm I will make him strong.
²²His enemies will not defeat him,
    nor will the wicked overpower him.
²³I will beat down his adversaries before him
    and destroy those who hate him.
²⁴My faithfulness and unfailing love will be with him,
    and by my authority he will grow in power.
²⁵I will extend his rule over the sea,
    his dominion over the rivers.
²⁶And he will call out to me, ‘You are my Father,
    my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’
²⁷I will make him my firstborn son,
    the mightiest king on earth.
²⁸I will love him and be kind to him forever;
    my covenant with him will never end.
²⁹I will preserve an heir for him;
    his throne will be as endless as the days of heaven.
³⁰But if his descendants forsake my instructions
    and fail to obey my regulations,
³¹if they do not obey my decrees
    and fail to keep my commands,
³²then I will punish their sin with the rod,
    and their disobedience with beating.
³³But I will never stop loving him
    nor fail to keep my promise to him.
³⁴No, I will not break my covenant;
    I will not take back a single word I said.
³⁵I have sworn an oath to David,
    and in my holiness I cannot lie:
³⁶His dynasty will go on forever;
    his kingdom will endure as the sun.
³⁷It will be as eternal as the moon,
    my faithful witness in the sky!” Interlude

³⁸But now you have rejected him and cast him off.
    You are angry with your anointed king.
³⁹You have renounced your covenant with him;
    you have thrown his crown in the dust.
⁴⁰You have broken down the walls protecting him
    and ruined every fort defending him.
⁴¹Everyone who comes along has robbed him,
    and he has become a joke to his neighbors.
⁴²You have strengthened his enemies
    and made them all rejoice.
⁴³You have made his sword useless
    and refused to help him in battle.
⁴⁴You have ended his splendor
    and overturned his throne.
⁴⁵You have made him old before his time
    and publicly disgraced him. Interlude

⁴⁶O Lord, how long will this go on?
    Will you hide yourself forever?
    How long will your anger burn like fire?
⁴⁷Remember how short my life is,
    how empty and futile this human existence!
⁴⁸No one can live forever; all will die.
    No one can escape the power of the grave.^[a] Interlude

⁴⁹Lord, where is your unfailing love?
    You promised it to David with a faithful pledge.
⁵⁰Consider, Lord, how your servants are disgraced!
    I carry in my heart the insults of so many people.
⁵¹Your enemies have mocked me, O Lord;
    they mock your anointed king wherever he goes.