Psalmen 89

Psalmüberschrift: An instruction. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.

¹I will sing of the loving-kindness of Jehovah for ever; with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness from generation to generation.
²For I said, Loving-kindness shall be built up for ever; in the very heavens wilt thou establish thy faithfulness.
³I have made a covenant with mine elect, I have sworn unto David my servant:
⁴Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne from generation to generation. Selah.
⁵And the heavens shall celebrate thy wonders, O Jehovah, and thy faithfulness in the congregation of the saints.
⁶For who in the heaven can be compared to Jehovah? [ergänzt: who] among the sons of the mighty shall be likened to Jehovah?
⁷God is greatly to be feared in the council of the saints, and terrible for all that are round about him.
⁸Jehovah, God of hosts, who is like unto thee, the strong Jah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.
⁹*Thou* rulest the pride of the sea: when its waves arise, *thou* stillest them.
¹⁰Thou hast crushed Rahab as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.
¹¹Thine are the heavens, the earth also is thine; the world and its fulness, *thou* hast founded them.
¹²The north and the south, *thou* hast created them: Tabor and Hermon triumph in thy name.
¹³Thine is the arm of might: strong is thy hand, high is thy right hand.
¹⁴Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of thy throne; loving-kindness and truth go before thy face.
¹⁵Blessed is the people that know the shout of joy: they walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.
¹⁶In thy name are they joyful all the day, and in thy righteousness are they exalted.
¹⁷For thou art the glory of their strength; and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
¹⁸For Jehovah is our shield, and the Holy One of Israel, our king.
¹⁹Then thou spakest in vision of thy Holy One, and saidst, I have laid help upon a mighty one; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
²⁰I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
²¹With whom my hand shall be established; and mine arm shall strengthen him.
²²No enemy shall exact upon him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him;
²³But I will beat down his adversaries before his face, and will smite them that hate him.
²⁴And my faithfulness and my loving-kindness shall be with him, and by my name shall his horn be exalted.
²⁵And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
²⁶*He* shall call unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation;
²⁷And as to me, I will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
²⁸My loving-kindness will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him;
²⁹And I will establish his seed for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
³⁰If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in mine ordinances;
³¹If they profane my statutes, and keep not my commandments:
³²Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
³³Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor belie my faithfulness;
³⁴My covenant will I not profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
³⁵Once have I sworn by my holiness; I will not lie unto David:
³⁶His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me;
³⁷It shall be established for ever as the moon, and the witness in the sky is firm. Selah.
³⁸But thou hast rejected and cast off; thou hast been very wroth with thine anointed:
³⁹Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant; thou hast profaned his crown to the ground:
⁴⁰Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.
⁴¹All that pass by the way plunder him; he is become a reproach to his neighbours.
⁴²Thou hast exalted the right hand of his oppressors; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice:
⁴³Yea, thou hast turned back the edge of his sword, and hast not made him stand in the battle.
⁴⁴Thou hast made his brightness to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground;
⁴⁵The days of his youth hast thou shortened; thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
⁴⁶How long, Jehovah, wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy fury burn like fire?
⁴⁷Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?
⁴⁸What man liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
⁴⁹Where, Lord, are thy former loving-kindnesses, [ergänzt: which] thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?
⁵⁰Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants -- that I bear in my bosom [ergänzt: that of] all the mighty peoples --
⁵¹Wherewith thine enemies, O Jehovah, have reproached, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
⁵²Blessed be Jehovah for evermore! Amen, and Amen.

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