1AN INSTRUCTION OF ETHAN THE EZRAHITE. Of the kind acts of YHWH, I sing for all time, || From generation to generation I make known Your faithfulness with my mouth,
2For I said, “Kindness is built for all time, || The heavens! You establish Your faithfulness in them.”
3I have made a covenant for My chosen, || I have sworn to My servant David:
4“Even for all time I establish your seed, || And have built your throne to generation and generation.” Selah.
5And the heavens confess Your wonders, O YHWH, || Your faithfulness [is] also in an assembly of holy ones.
6For who in the sky, compares himself to YHWH? [Who] is like to YHWH among sons of the mighty?
7God is very terrible, || In the secret counsel of His holy ones, || And fearful over all surrounding Him.
8O YHWH, God of Hosts, || Who [is] like You—a strong YAH? And Your faithfulness [is] around You.
9You [are] ruler over the pride of the sea, || In the lifting up of its billows You restrain them.
10You have bruised Rahab, as one wounded. You have scattered Your enemies with the arm of Your strength.
11The heavens [are] Yours, || The earth [is] also Yours, || The habitable world and its fullness, || You have founded them.
12North and south You have appointed them, || Tabor and Hermon sing in Your Name.
13You have an arm with might, || Strong is Your hand—high Your right hand.
14Righteousness and judgment || [Are] the fixed place of Your throne, || Kindness and truth go before Your face.
15O the blessedness of the people knowing the shout, || O YHWH, they habitually walk in the light of Your face.
16They rejoice in Your Name all the day, || And they are exalted in Your righteousness,
17For You [are] the beauty of their strength, || And in Your good will is our horn exalted,
18For our shield [is] of YHWH, || And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
19Then You have spoken in vision, || To Your saint, indeed, || You say, I have placed help on a mighty one, || Exalted a chosen one out of the people,
20I have found My servant David, || With My holy oil I have anointed him.
21With whom My hand is established, || My arm also strengthens him.
22An enemy does not exact on him, || And a son of perverseness does not afflict him.
23And I have beaten down his adversaries before him, || And I plague those hating him,
24And My faithfulness and kindness [are] with him, || And in My Name is his horn exalted.
25And I have set his hand on the sea, || And his right hand on the rivers.
26He proclaims to Me: “You [are] my Father, || My God, and the rock of my salvation.”
27I also appoint him firstborn, || Highest of the kings of the earth.
28For all time I keep for him My kindness, || And My covenant [is] steadfast with him.
29And I have set his seed forever, || And his throne as the days of the heavens.
30If his sons forsake My law, || And do not walk in My judgments;
31If they defile My statutes, || And do not keep My commands,
32I have looked after their transgression with a rod, || And their iniquity with strokes,
33And I do not break My kindness from him, || Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness.
34I do not profane My covenant, || And I do not change that which is going forth from My lips.
35Once I have sworn by My holiness, || I do not lie to David,
36His seed is for all time, || And his throne [is] as the sun before Me,
37 It is established as the moon for all time, || And the witness in the sky is steadfast. Selah.
38And You, You have cast off, and reject, || You have shown Yourself angry with Your anointed,
39Have rejected the covenant of Your servant, || You have defiled his crown to the earth,
40You have broken down all his hedges, || You have made his fortifications a ruin.
41Everyone passing by the way has spoiled him, || He has been a reproach to his neighbors,
42You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries, || You have caused all his enemies to rejoice.
43Also—You turn back the sharpness of his sword, || And have not established him in battle,
44Have caused [him] to cease from his brightness, || And have cast down his throne to the earth.
45You have shortened the days of his youth, || Have covered him over [with] shame. Selah.
46Until when, O YHWH, are You hidden? Does Your fury burn as fire forever?
47Remember how [short] my lifetime [is]. Why have You created in vain || All the sons of men?
48Who [is] the man that lives, and does not see death? He delivers his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.
49Where [are] Your former kindnesses, O Lord, || [Which] You have sworn to David in Your faithfulness?
50Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, || I have borne in my bosom all the strivings of the peoples,
51With which Your enemies reproached, O YHWH, || With which they have reproached || The steps of Your anointed.
