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