Psalm 89
Once you spoke in vision;
to your faithful ones you said:
"I have set a leader over the warriors;
I have raised up a hero from the army.
I have chosen David, my servant;
with my holy oil I have anointed him.
My hand will be with him;
my arm will make him strong.
No enemy shall outwit him,
nor shall the wicked defeat him.
I will crush his foes before him,
strike down those who hate him.
My loyalty and love will be with him;
through my name his horn will be exalted.
I will set his hand upon the sea,
his right hand upon the rivers.
He shall cry to me,'You are my father,
my God, the Rock that brings me victory!'
I myself make him firstborn,
Most High over the kings of the earth.
Forever I will maintain my love for him;
my covenant with him stands firm.
I will establish his dynasty forever,
his throne as the days of the heavens.
If his descendants forsake my law,
do not follow my decrees,
If they fail to observe my statutes,
do not keep my commandments,
I will punish their crime with a rod
and their guilt with lashes.
But I will not take my love from him,
nor will I betray my bond of loyalty.
I will not violate my covenant;
the promise of my lips I will not alter.
By my holiness I swore once for all:
I will never be false to David.
His dynasty will continue forever,
his throne, like the sun before me.
Like the moon it will stand eternal,
forever firm like the sky!" Selah
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