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[1]I will sing of thy mercies, O Lord, for ever: I will declare thy truth with my mouth to all generations.
[2]For thou hast said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy truth shall be established in the heavens.
[3]I made a covenant with my chosen ones, I sware unto David my servant.
[4]I will establish thy seed for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Pause.
[5]The heavens shall declare thy wonders, O Lord; and thy truth in the assembly of the saints.
[6]For who in the heavens shall be compared to the Lord? and who shall be likened to the Lord among the sons of God?
[7]God is glorified in the council of the saints; great and terrible toward all that are round about him.
[8]O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee.
[9]Thou rulest the power of the sea; and thou calmest the tumult of its waves.
[10]Thou has brought down the proud as one that is slain; and with the arm of thy power thou has scattered thine enemies.
[11]The heavens are thine, and the earth is thine: thou hast founded the world, and the fullness of it.
[12]Thou hast created the north and the west: Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
[13]Thine is the mighty arm: let thy hand be strengthened, let thy right hand be exalted.
[14]Justice and judgment are the establishment of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
[15]Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.
[16]And in thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
[17]For thou art the boast of their strength; and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted,
[18]for our help is of the Lord; and of the Holy One of Israel, our king.
[19]Then thou spokest in vision to thy children, and saidst, I have laid help on a mighty one; I have exalted one chosen out of my people.
[20]I have found David my servant; I have anointed him by my holy mercy.
[21]For my hand shall support him; and mine arm shall strengthen him.
[22]The enemy shall have no advantage against him; and the son of transgression shall not hurt him again.
[23]And I will hew down his foes before him, and put to flight those that hate him.
[24]But my truth and my mercy shall be with him; and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
[25]And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
[26]He shall call upon me, saying, Thou art my Father, my God, and the helper of my salvation.
[27]And I will make him my first-born, higher than the kings of the earth.
[28]I will keep my mercy for him for ever, and my covenant shall be firm with him.
[29]And I will establish his seed for ever and ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
[30]If his children should forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
[31]if they should profane my ordinances, and not keep my commandments;
[32]I will visit their transgressions with a rod, and their sins with scourges.
[33]But my mercy I will not utterly remove from him, nor wrong my truth.
[34]Neither will I by any means profane my covenant; and I will not make void the things that proceed out of my lips.
[35]Once have I sworn by my holiness, that I will not lie to David.
[36]His see shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me;
[37]and as the moon that is established for ever, and as the faithful witness in heaven. Pause.
[38]But thou hast cast off and set at nought, thou has rejected thine anointed.
[39]Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant; thou has profaned his sanctuary, casting it to the ground.
[40]Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast made his strong holds a terror.
[41]All that go by the way have spoiled him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours.
[42]Thou hast exalted the right hand of his enemies; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
[43]Thou hast turned back the help of his sword, and hast not helped him in the battle.
[44]Thou hast deprived him of glory: thou hast broken down his throne to the ground.
[45]Thou hast shortened the days of his throne: thou hast poured shame upon him. Pause.
[46]How long, O Lord, wilt thou turn away, for ever? shall thine anger flame out as fire?
[47]Remember what my being is: for hast thou created all the sons of men in vain?
[48]What man is there who shall live, and not see death? shall any one deliver his soul from the hand of Hades? Pause.
[49]Where are thine ancient mercies, O Lord, which thou swarest to David in thy truth?
[50]Remember, O Lord, the reproach of thy servants, which I have borne in my bosom, even the reproach of many nations;
[51]wherewith thine enemies have reviled, O Lord: wherewith they have reviled the recompense of thine anointed.
[52]Blessed be the Lord for ever. So be it, so be it.
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