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Psalm 88 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
I Cry Out before You
1 Of understanding to Ethan the Ezrahite.
2 The mercies of our Lord I will sing for ever. In generation and generation I will shew forth thy truth in my mouth.
3 Because thou saidst: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.
4 I have ordained a testament with mine elect, I have sworn to David my servant:
5 for ever will I prepare thy seed. And I will build thy seat unto generation and generation.
6 The heavens shall confess thy marvelous works, o Lord: yea and thy truth in the Church of Saints.
7 For who in the clouds shall be equal to our Lord: shall be like to God among the sons of God?
8 God who is glorified in the counsel of Saints, great and terrible over all that are round about him.
9 O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? Thou art mighty, o Lord, and thy truth round about thee.
10 Thou rulest over the power of the sea: and the moving of the waves thereof thou doest mitigate.
11 Thou humbledst the proud one, as one wounded: in the arm of thy strength thou hast dispersed thine enemies.
12 The heavens are thine, and the earth is thine, the round earth, and the fullness thereof thou hast founded:
13 the north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name:
14 thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be confirmed, and thy right hand exalted:
15 justice and judgment is the preparation of thy seat. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:
16 blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. Lord they shall walk in the light of thy countenance,
17 and in thy name they shall rejoice all the day: and in thy justice they shall be exalted.
18 Because thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted.
19 Because our protection is of our Lord: and of the holy one of Israel our King.
20 Then didst thou speak in vision to thy Saints, and saidst: I have put help on the mighty one: & have exalted an elect one of my people.
21 I have found David my servant: with mine holy oil have I anointed him.
22 For mine hand shall help him: and mine arm shall strengthen him.
23 The enemy shall nothing prevail in him: and the son of iniquity shall not add to hurt him.
24 And I will cut down his enemies before his face: and them that hate him I will put to flight.
25 And my truth, and my mercy with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
26 And I will put his hand in the sea: and his right hand in the rivers.
27 He shall invocate me: Thou art my Father: my God, and the protector of my Salvation.
28 And I will put him the first-begotten, high above the kings of the earth.
29 I will keep my mercy unto him for ever: and my testament faithful to him.
30 I will put his seed for ever and ever: and his throne as the days of heaven.
31 But if his children shall forsake my law: and will not walk in my judgments.
32 If they shall profane my justices: and not keep my commandments
33 I will visit their iniquities with a rod: and their sins with stripes.
34 But my mercy I will not take away from him: neither will I hurt in my truth.
35 Neither will I profane my testament: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make frustrate.
36 Once I have sworn in my holy, if I lie to David:
37 his seed shall continue for ever.
38 And his throne as the Sun in my sight, and as the Moon perfect for ever: and a faithful witness in heaven.
39 But thou hast repelled and despised: thou hast deferred thy Christ.
40 Thou hast overthrown the testament of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth.
41 Thou hast destroyed all the hedges thereof: thou hast made the firmament thereof fear.
42 All that pass by the way have spoiled him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours.
43 Thou hast exalted the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies joyful.
44 Thou hast turned away the help of his sword: and hast not holpen him in battle.
45 Thou hast destroyed him from emundation: and his seat thou hast broken down to the ground.
46 Thou hast lessened the days of his time: thou hast overwhelmed him with confusion.
47 How long, o Lord, doest thou turn away for ever: shall thy wrath burn as a fire?
48 Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain?
49 Who is the man that shall live, and shall not see death: shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell?
50 Where are thine old mercies, o Lord, as thou swarest to David in thy truth?
51 Be mindful, o Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations.
52 Which thine enemies have reproached, o Lord, which they have reproached the commutation of thy Christ.
53 Blessed be our Lord for ever: Be it, be it.
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