1A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
2The mercies of YHWH forever I will sing; to generation and generation I will make known your faithfulness with my mouth.
3For I have said: Forever mercy is built; the heavens — you establish your faithfulness in them.
4I have cut a covenant (berit) with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant:
5Until forever I will establish your seed, and I will build your throne to generation and generation. Selah.
6And the heavens praise your wonder, YHWH; also your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones.
7For who in the sky can be compared to YHWH, who is likened to YHWH among the sons of the mighty?
8A God greatly feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all those around him.
9O YHWH, God of hosts (tzevaot), who is mighty like you, O Yah? And your faithfulness is around you.
10You rule over the pride of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.
11You crushed Rahab like one slain; with the arm of your strength you scattered your enemies.
12Yours are the heavens, also yours the earth; the world and its fullness, you founded them.
13The north and the south, you created them; Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
14Yours is an arm with might; strong is your hand, exalted is your right hand.
15Righteousness and judgment (mishpat) are the foundation of your throne; mercy and truth go before your face.
16Happy is the people who know the shout of joy; YHWH, in the light of your face they walk.
17In your name they rejoice all the day, and in your righteousness they are exalted.
18For the glory of their strength are you; and in your favor our horn is exalted.
19For to YHWH is our shield, and to the Holy One of Israel our king.
20Then you spoke in a vision to your godly ones, and you said: I have set help upon a mighty one, I have exalted a chosen one from the people.
21I have found David my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him.
22With whom my hand shall be established; also my arm shall strengthen him.
23An enemy shall not exact upon him, and a son of wickedness shall not afflict him.
24And I will beat down his adversaries before his face, and those who hate him I will strike.
25And my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him; and in my name his horn shall be exalted.
26And I will set his hand on the sea, and on the rivers his right hand.
27He shall call me: You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation (yeshuah).
28Also I, a firstborn I will make him, Most High (Elyon) over the kings of the earth.
29Forever I will keep my mercy for him, and my covenant (berit) is faithful to him.
30And I will set his seed forever, and his throne as the days of the heavens.
31If his sons forsake my Torah, and in my judgments (mishpat) they do not walk;
32If they profane my statutes (chuqqot), and my commandments (mitzvot) they do not keep;
33Then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with strokes.
34But my mercy I will not break from with him, and I will not be false in my faithfulness.
35I will not profane my covenant (berit), and what goes out from my lips I will not change.
36Once I have sworn by my holiness; surely I will not lie to David.
37His seed shall be forever, and his throne as the sun before me.
38As the moon it shall be established forever, and a witness in the sky is faithful. Selah.
39But you, you have cast off and rejected, you have been wroth with your anointed.
40You have spurned the covenant (berit) of your servant; you have profaned to the ground his crown.
41You have broken down all his fences; you have set his strongholds to ruin.
42All who pass by the way plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
43You have raised the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies rejoice.
44Also you turn back the rock of his sword, and you have not made him stand in the battle.
45You have caused to shabbat from his brightness, and his throne to the ground you have cast down.
46You have shortened the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah.
47How long, YHWH, will you hide yourself forever? Shall your wrath burn like fire?
48Remember, as for me, what is lifespan; for what vanity have you created all the sons of man (adam)!
49What man lives and shall not see death, who delivers his soul (nephesh) from the hand of Sheol? Selah.
50Where are your former mercies, my Lord (Adonai), which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
51Remember, my Lord (Adonai), the reproach of your servants; how I bear in my bosom all the many peoples,
52with which your enemies have reproached, YHWH, with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.
53Blessed is YHWH forever. Amen and Amen.