1 Of the steadfast love of the LORD I will sing forever; to generation after generation I will make your faithfulness known with my mouth.
2 For I said, "Steadfast love will be built forever; in the heavens you will make your faithfulness firm."
3 "I have cut a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant:
4 'Forever I will establish your seed, and I will build your throne for generation after generation.'" Selah.
5 And the heavens will praise your wonders, O LORD, your faithfulness too in the congregation of the holy ones.
6 For who in the clouds can be ranked with the LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty is like the LORD,
7 a God dreaded greatly in the council of the holy ones, and feared above all who surround him?
8 LORD God of hosts, who is strong like you, O LORD? Your faithfulness is all around you.
9 You rule over the pride of the sea; when its waves lift up, you calm them.
10 You crushed Rahab like a slain man; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.
11 Yours are the heavens, and yours the earth as well; the world and its fullness, you founded them.
12 North and south, you created them; Tabor and Hermon sing for joy at your name.
13 You have an arm with strength; strong is your hand, high is your right hand.
14 Righteousness and justice are the base of your throne; steadfast love and truth go before you.
15 Blessed is the people who know the festal shout; O LORD, they walk in the light of your face.
16 In your name they rejoice all the day, and through your righteousness they are lifted up.
17 For you are the splendor of their strength, and by your favor our horn is raised high.
18 For our shield is the LORD's, and our king belongs to the Holy One of Israel.
19 Once you spoke in a vision to your godly ones and said: "I have granted help to a mighty man; I have raised up one chosen from among the people.
20 I found David my servant; with my holy oil I anointed him.
21 My hand will stay firm with him, and my arm will strengthen him.
22 No enemy will get the better of him, and no son of wickedness will humble him.
23 I will beat down his foes before him and strike those who hate him.
24 My faithfulness and my steadfast love will be with him, and in my name his horn will be lifted high.
25 I will put his hand upon the sea, and his right hand upon the rivers.
26 He will call to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.'
27 And I will make him firstborn, highest over the kings of the earth.
28 Forever I will keep my steadfast love for him, and my covenant with him will stand firm.
29 I will make his seed endure forever, and his throne like the days of the heavens.
30 If his sons abandon my law and do not walk by my judgments,
31 if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments,
32 then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with blows,
33 but my steadfast love I will not break off from him, nor prove false in my faithfulness.
34 I will not profane my covenant or change what has passed my lips.
35 Once I have sworn by my holiness: I will not lie to David.
36 His seed will last forever, and his throne like the sun before me.
37 Like the moon it will be established forever, and the witness in the clouds is faithful." Selah.
38 But you have cast off and spurned; you are furious with your anointed.
39 You have repudiated the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown to the ground.
40 You have breached all his walls; you have turned his fortresses into rubble.
41 Everyone who travels the road plunders him; he has become a scorn to his neighbors.
42 You have raised the right hand of his foes; you have made all his enemies glad.
43 You have even turned back the edge of his sword and have not held him up in the battle.
44 You have put an end to his brightness and thrown his throne down to the earth.
45 You have cut short the days of his youth; you have wrapped him in shame. Selah.
46 How long, O LORD? Will you hide for good? Will your wrath burn on like fire?
47 Remember what my span of life is; for what futility you have created all the sons of men!
48 Who is the man who will live and not see death, who will rescue his soul from the hand of Sheol? Selah.
49 Where are your steadfast loves of old, O Lord, that you swore to David in your faithfulness?
50 Remember, Lord, the scorn heaped on your servants, how I bear in my bosom the scorn of all the many peoples,
51 with which your enemies have scorned, O LORD, with which they have scorned the footsteps of your anointed.
52 Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and Amen.