The Psalms, starting at chapter 88
Psalm 88
A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the
tune of "The Suffering of Affliction." A contemplation by Heman, the
Ezrahite.
{88:1} LORD, the God of my salvation,
I have cried day and night before you.
{88:2} Let my prayer enter into your presence.
Turn your ear to my cry.
{88:3} For my soul is full of troubles.
My life draws near to Sheol.
{88:4} I am counted among those who go down into the pit.
I am like a man who has no help,
{88:5} set apart among the dead,
like the slain who lie in the grave,
whom you remember no more.
They are cut off from your hand.
{88:6} You have laid me in the lowest pit,
in the darkest depths.
{88:7} Your wrath lies heavily on me.
You have afflicted me with all your waves.
Selah.
{88:8} You have taken my friends from me.
You have made me an abomination to them.
I am confined, and I can't escape.
{88:9} My eyes are dim from grief.
I have called on you daily, LORD.
I have spread out my hands to you.
{88:10} Do you show wonders to the dead?
Do the dead rise up and praise you?
Selah.
{88:11} Is your loving kindness declared in the grave?
Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
{88:12} Are your wonders made known in the dark?
Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
{88:13} But to you, LORD, I have cried.
In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
{88:14} LORD, why do you reject my soul?
Why do you hide your face from me?
{88:15} I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up.
While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
{88:16} Your fierce wrath has gone over me.
Your terrors have cut me off.
{88:17} They came around me like water all day long.
They completely engulfed me.
{88:18} You have put lover and friend far from me,
and my friends into darkness.
Psalm 89
A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.
{89:1} I will sing of the loving kindness of the LORD forever.
With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all
generations.
{89:2} I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever.
You established the heavens.
Your faithfulness is in them."
{89:3} "I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David, my servant,
{89:4} 'I will establish your seed forever,
and build up your throne to all generations.'"
Selah.
{89:5} The heavens will praise your wonders, LORD;
your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
{89:6} For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD?
Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like the LORD,
{89:7} a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones,
to be feared above all those who are around him?
{89:8} LORD, God of Hosts, who is a mighty one, like you?
The LORD, your faithfulness is around you.
{89:9} You rule the pride of the sea.
When its waves rise up, you calm them.
{89:10} You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain.
You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
{89:11} The heavens are yours.
The earth also is yours;
the world and its fullness.
You have founded them.
{89:12} The north and the south, you have created them.
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
{89:13} You have a mighty arm.
Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
{89:14} Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.
Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
{89:15} Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you.
They walk in the light of your presence, LORD.
{89:16} In your name they rejoice all day.
In your righteousness, they are exalted.
{89:17} For you are the glory of their strength.
In your favor, our horn will be exalted.
{89:18} For our shield belongs to the LORD;
our king to the Holy One of Israel.
{89:19} Then you spoke in vision to your holy ones,
and said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior.
I have exalted a young man from the people.
{89:20} I have found David, my servant.
I have anointed him with my holy oil,
{89:21} with whom my hand shall be established.
My arm will also strengthen him.
{89:22} No enemy will tax him.
No wicked man will oppress him.
{89:23} I will beat down his adversaries before him,
and strike those who hate him.
{89:24} But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
In my name, his horn will be exalted.
{89:25} I will set his hand also on the sea,
and his right hand on the rivers.
{89:26} He will call to me, 'You are my Father,
my God, and the rock of my salvation!'
{89:27} I will also appoint him my firstborn,
the highest of the kings of the earth.
{89:28} I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore.
My covenant will stand firm with him.
{89:29} I will also make his seed endure forever,
and his throne as the days of heaven.
{89:30} If his children forsake my Torah,
and don't walk in my ordinances;
{89:31} if they break my statutes,
and don't keep my commandments;
{89:32} then I will punish their sin with the rod,
and their iniquity with stripes.
{89:33} But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him,
nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
{89:34} I will not break my covenant,
nor alter what my lips have uttered.
{89:35} Once have I sworn by my holiness,
I will not lie to David.
{89:36} His seed will endure forever,
his throne like the sun before me.
{89:37} It will be established forever like the moon,
the faithful witness in the sky."
Selah.
{89:38} But you have rejected and spurned.
You have been angry with your anointed.
{89:39} You have renounced the covenant of your servant.
You have defiled his crown in the dust.
{89:40} You have broken down all his hedges.
You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
{89:41} All who pass by the way rob him.
He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
{89:42} You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries.
You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
{89:43} Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword,
and haven't supported him in battle.
{89:44} You have ended his splendor,
and thrown his throne down to the ground.
{89:45} You have shortened the days of his youth.
You have covered him with shame.
Selah.
{89:46} How long, LORD?
Will you hide yourself forever?
Will your wrath burn like fire?
{89:47} Remember how short my time is!
For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
{89:48} What man is he who shall live and not see death,
who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?
Selah.
{89:49} Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses,
which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
{89:50} Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants,
how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
{89:51} With which your enemies have mocked, LORD,
with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
{89:52} Blessed be the LORD forevermore.
Amen, and Amen.
BOOK IV
Psalm 90
A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.
{90:1} Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
{90:2} Before the mountains were brought forth,
before you had formed the earth and the world,
even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
{90:3} You turn man to destruction, saying,
"Return, you children of men."
{90:4} For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when
it is past,
like a watch in the night.
{90:5} You sweep them away as they sleep.
In the morning they sprout like new grass.
{90:6} In the morning it sprouts and springs up.
By evening, it is withered and dry.
{90:7} For we are consumed in your anger.
We are troubled in your wrath.
{90:8} You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.
{90:9} For all our days have passed away in your wrath.
We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
{90:10} The days of our years are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty years;
yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,
for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
{90:11} Who knows the power of your anger,
your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
{90:12} So teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
{90:13} Relent, LORD!
How long?
Have compassion on your servants!
{90:14} Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
{90:15} Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen evil.
{90:16} Let your work appear to your servants;
your glory to their children.
{90:17} Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us;
establish the work of our hands for us;
yes, establish the work of our hands.
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