⁰A poem of Ethan the Ezrachite.

¹The loyal love of Yahweh I will sing forever; to generation after generation I will make known your steadiness with my mouth.

²For I said, Loyal love will be built forever; the skies, you establish your steadiness in them.

³I cut a covenant for my chosen one; I swore an oath to David my slave.

⁴Forever I will establish your seed, and I will build your throne for generation after generation. Selah

⁵The skies praise your wonder, Yahweh, and also your steadiness in the assembly of the holy ones.

⁶For who in the clouds can compare to Yahweh, who is like Yahweh among the sons of the gods?

⁷God is dreaded in the council of the holy ones, great and to be feared above all around him.

⁸Yahweh, God of hosts, who is like you, mighty Yah? Your steadiness is all around you.

⁹You rule over the rising of the sea; when its waves lift themselves up, you still them.

¹⁰You crushed Rahab like one slain; with the arm of your strength, you scattered your enemies.

¹¹Yours are the skies; yours too is the land; the world and its fullness, you founded them.

¹²North and south, you created them; Tabor and Hermon ring out for joy at your name.

¹³Yours is an arm with might; your hand is strong, your right hand is high.

¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; loyal love and stability go before your face.

¹⁵Blessed are the people who know the shout, Yahweh; in the light of your face they walk.

¹⁶In your name they rejoice all the day, and in your righteousness they rise high.

¹⁷For you are the splendor of their strength, and by your favor our horn rises high.

¹⁸For our shield belongs to Yahweh, and our king to the holy one of Israel.

¹⁹Then you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones, and you said, I have set help upon a warrior; I have lifted on high one chosen from the people.

²⁰I have found David my slave; with the oil of my holiness I have anointed him.

²¹With whom my hand will be established; my arm also will strengthen him.

²²An enemy will not beguile him, and a son of injustice will not afflict him.

²³And I will crush his enemies from before his face, and strike down those who hate him.

²⁴And my steadiness and my loyal love are with him, and in my name his horn will be raised high.

²⁵And I will set his hand on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.

²⁶He will call out to me, You are my father, my God, and the rock of my deliverance.

²⁷I also will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the land.

²⁸Forever I will keep my loyal love for him, and my covenant will be reliable for him.

²⁹I will set his seed forever, and his throne like the days of the skies.

³⁰If his sons forsake my instruction and do not walk in my justice;

³¹if they profane my statutes and do not keep my commandments;

³²then I will punish their transgression with a rod, and their guilt with blows.

³³But my loyal love I will not break off from him, and I will not deal falsely in my steadiness.

³⁴I will not profane my covenant, and what comes out of my lips I will not change.

³⁵Once I swore by my holiness: I will not lie to David.

³⁶His seed will be forever, and his throne like the sun before me.

³⁷Like the moon it will be established forever, and the witness in the clouds is reliable. Selah.

³⁸But you, you spurned and rejected; you passed beyond bounds with your anointed.

³⁹You renounced the covenant of your slave; you profaned his crown to the land.

⁴⁰You burst through all his walls; you made his strongholds a ruin.

⁴¹All who pass along the road plundered him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

⁴²You lifted high the right hand of his opponents; you made all his enemies rejoice.

⁴³You also turn back the edge of his sword, and you did not make him stand in battle.

⁴⁴You made his brightness cease and hurled his throne to the land.

⁴⁵You cut short the days of his youth; you wrapped shame around him. Selah.

⁴⁶How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your anger burn like fire?

⁴⁷Remember what my lifespan is; for what emptiness have you created all the children of humankind?

⁴⁸Who is the man who will live and not see death, who will deliver his being from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

⁴⁹Where is your former loyal love, Lord, which you swore to David in your steadiness?

⁵⁰Remember, Lord, the reproach of your slaves, my bearing in my bosom all the many peoples,

⁵¹which your enemies reproached, Yahweh, which they reproached the heels of your anointed.

⁵²Blessed be Yahweh forever. Amen and amen.