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1 I will sing of the LORD’s great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.
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(88-1) <Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite.> (88-2) The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.
2 I will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself.
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(88-3) For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.
3 You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant,
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(88-4) I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant:
4 ‘I will establish your line forever and make your throne firm through all generations.’ ”
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(88-5) Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation.
5 The heavens praise your wonders, LORD, your faithfulness too, in the assembly of the holy ones.
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(88-6) The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints.
6 For who in the skies above can compare with the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the heavenly beings?
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(88-7) For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God?
7 In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared; he is more awesome than all who surround him.
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(88-8) God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him.
8 Who is like you, LORD God Almighty? You, LORD, are mighty, and your faithfulness surrounds you.
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(88-9) O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.
9 You rule over the surging sea; when its waves mount up, you still them.
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(88-10) Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.
10 You crushed Rahab like one of the slain; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.
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(88-11) Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.
11 The heavens are yours, and yours also the earth; you founded the world and all that is in it.
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(88-12) Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded:
12 You created the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon sing for joy at your name.
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(88-13) The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name:
13 Your arm is endowed with power; your hand is strong, your right hand exalted.
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(88-14) Thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted:
14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; love and faithfulness go before you.
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(88-15) Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:
15 Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, LORD.
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(88-16) Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance:
16 They rejoice in your name all day long; they celebrate your righteousness.
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(88-17) And in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted.
17 For you are their glory and strength, and by your favor you exalt our horn.
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(88-18) For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted.
18 Indeed, our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
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(88-19) For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel.
19 Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: “I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have raised up a young man from among the people.
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(88-20) Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people.
20 I have found David my servant; with my sacred oil I have anointed him.
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(88-21) I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him.
21 My hand will sustain him; surely my arm will strengthen him.
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(88-22) For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him.
22 The enemy will not get the better of him; the wicked will not oppress him.
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(88-23) The enemy shall have no advantage over him: nor the son of iniquity have power to hurt him.
23 I will crush his foes before him and strike down his adversaries.
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(88-24) And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that hate him I will put to flight.
24 My faithful love will be with him, and through my name his horn will be exalted.
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(88-25) And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
25 I will set his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers.
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(88-26) And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the rivers.
26 He will call out to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock my Savior.’
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(88-27) He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the support of my salvation.
27 And I will appoint him to be my firstborn, the most exalted of the kings of the earth.
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(88-28) And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth.
28 I will maintain my love to him forever, and my covenant with him will never fail.
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(88-29) I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him.
29 I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.
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(88-30) And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven.
30 “If his sons forsake my law and do not follow my statutes,
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(88-31) And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments:
31 if they violate my decrees and fail to keep my commands,
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(88-32) If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments:
32 I will punish their sin with the rod, their iniquity with flogging;
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(88-33) I will visit their iniquities with a rod and their sins with stripes.
33 but I will not take my love from him, nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.
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(88-34) But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail.
34 I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered.
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(88-35) Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void.
35 Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness— and I will not lie to David—
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(88-36) Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David:
36 that his line will continue forever and his throne endure before me like the sun;
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(88-37) His seed shall endure for ever.
37 it will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.”
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(88-38) And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for ever, and a faithful witness in heaven.
38 But you have rejected, you have spurned, you have been very angry with your anointed one.
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(88-39) But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with my anointed.
39 You have renounced the covenant with your servant and have defiled his crown in the dust.
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(88-40) Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth.
40 You have broken through all his walls and reduced his strongholds to ruins.
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(88-41) Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear.
41 All who pass by have plundered him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.
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(88-42) All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours.
42 You have exalted the right hand of his foes; you have made all his enemies rejoice.
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(88-43) Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
43 Indeed, you have turned back the edge of his sword and have not supported him in battle.
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(88-44) Thou hast turned away the help of his sword; and hast not assisted him in battle.
44 You have put an end to his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.
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(88-45) Thou hast made his purification to cease: and thou hast cast his throne down to the ground.
45 You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with a mantle of shame.
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(88-46) Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him with confusion.
46 How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
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(88-47) How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire?
47 Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all humanity!
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(88-48) Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?
48 Who can live and not see death, or who can escape the power of the grave?
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(88-49) Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell?
49 Lord, where is your former great love, which in your faithfulness you swore to David?
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(88-50) Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst swear to David in thy truth?
50 Remember, Lord, how your servant has been mocked, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations,
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(88-51) Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations:
51 the taunts with which your enemies, LORD, have mocked, with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one.
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(88-52) Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the change of thy anointed.
52 Praise be to the LORD forever! Amen and Amen.
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(88-53) Blessed be the Lord for evermore. So be it. So be it.
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