Day 19 of 30

Ps 89:1–91:16

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? Yah, 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 Law, and do not walk in my ordinances;

89:31 if they break my statutes, and do not 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.

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.

91:1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

91:2 I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust."

91:3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

91:4 He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

91:5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day;

91:6 nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

91:7 A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

91:8 You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked.

91:9 Because you have made Lord your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,

91:10 no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.

91:11 For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.

91:12 They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won't dash your foot against a stone.

91:13 You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

91:14 "Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

91:15 He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

91:16 I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation."