Book of Common Prayer

89 ⁽⁰⁾ A maskil of Eitan the Ezrachi:

^2 (1) I will sing about Adonai’s acts of grace forever,
with my mouth proclaim your faithfulness to all generations;
^3 (2) because I said, “Grace is built to last forever;
in the heavens themselves you established your faithfulness.”

^4 (3) You said, “I made a covenant with the one I chose,
I swore to my servant David,
^5 (4) ‘I will establish your dynasty forever,
build up your throne through all generations.’” (Selah)

^6 (5) Let the heavens praise your wonders, Adonai,
your faithfulness in the assembly of the angels.
^7 (6) For who in the skies can be compared with Adonai?
Which of these gods can rival Adonai,
^8 (7) a God dreaded in the great assembly of the holy ones
and feared by all around him?

^9 (8) Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot!
Who is as mighty as you, Yah?
Your faithfulness surrounds you.
^10 (9) You control the raging of the sea;
when its waves rear up, you calm them.
^11 (10) You crushed Rahav like a carcass;
with your strong arm you scattered your foes.
^12 (11) The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours;
you founded the world and everything in it.
^13 (12) You created north and south;
Tavor and Hermon take joy in your name.

^14 (13) Your arm is mighty, your hand is strong,
your right hand is lifted high.
^15 (14) Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
grace and truth attend you.

^16 (15) How happy are the people who know the joyful shout!
They walk in the light of your presence, Adonai.
^17 (16) They rejoice in your name all day
and are lifted up by your righteousness,
^18 (17) for you yourself are the strength in which they glory.
Our power grows by pleasing you,
^19 (18) for our shield comes from Adonai —
our king is from the Holy One of Isra’el.

^20 (19) There was a time when you spoke in a vision;
you declared to your loyal [prophets],
“I have given help to a warrior,
I have raised up someone chosen from the people.
^21 (20) I have found David my servant
and anointed him with my holy oil.
^22 (21) My hand will always be with him,
and my arm will give him strength.
^23 (22) No enemy will outwit him,
no wicked man overcome him.
^24 (23) I will crush his foes before him
and strike down those who hate him.
^25 (24) My faithfulness and grace will be with him;
through my name his power will grow.
^26 (25) I will put his hand on the sea
and his right hand on the rivers.
^27 (26) He will call to me, ‘You are my father,
my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
^28 (27) I will give him the position of firstborn,
the highest of the kings of the earth.
^29 (28) I will keep my grace for him forever,
and in my covenant be faithful with him.

Adonai saw it, and it displeased him
that there was no justice.
¹⁶ He saw that there was no one,
was amazed that no one interceded.
Therefore his own arm brought him salvation,
and his own righteousness sustained him.
¹⁷ He put on righteousness as his breastplate,
salvation as a helmet on his head;
he clothed himself with garments of vengeance
and wrapped himself in a mantle of zeal.
¹⁸ He repays according to their deeds —
fury to his foes, reprisal to his enemies;
to the coastlands he will repay their due;
¹⁹ in the west they will fear the name of Adonai,
and likewise, in the east, his glory.

For he will come like a pent-up stream,
impelled by the Spirit of Adonai.
²⁰ “Then a Redeemer will come to Tziyon,
to those in Ya‘akov who turn from rebellion.”
So says Adonai.
²¹ “And as for me,” says Adonai,
“this is my covenant with them:
my Spirit, who rests on you,
and my words which I put in your mouth
will not depart from your mouth
or from the mouth of your children,
or from the mouth of your children’s children,
now or ever,” says Adonai.

⁶ Though he was in the form of God,
he did not regard equality with God
something to be possessed by force.
⁷ On the contrary, he emptied himself,
in that he took the form of a slave
by becoming like human beings are.

And when he appeared as a human being,
⁸ he humbled himself still more
by becoming obedient even to death —
death on a stake as a criminal!
⁹ Therefore God raised him to the highest place
and gave him the name above every name;

¹⁰ that in honor of the name given Yeshua,
every knee will bow —
in heaven, on earth and under the earth —
¹¹ and every tongue will acknowledge^[a]
that Yeshua the Messiah is Adonai —
to the glory of God the Father.