WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:02.850 --> 00:00:04.110 Psalm 89. 00:00:05.430 --> 00:00:08.250 Masco of Ethan, the Ezra height. 00:00:10.620 --> 00:00:11.320 Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. 00:00:11.520 --> 00:00:16.369 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known 00:00:16.369 --> 00:00:19.110 thy faithfulness to all generations. 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:26.290 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt 00:00:26.290 --> 00:00:28.189 thou establish in the very heavens. 00:00:29.360 --> 00:00:34.500 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, 00:00:35.400 --> 00:00:41.339 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. 00:00:41.559 --> 00:00:41.570 Selah. 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:49.029 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord: thy faithfulness also 00:00:49.029 --> 00:00:50.870 in the congregation of the saints. 00:00:52.919 --> 00:00:56.009 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? 00:00:56.589 --> 00:01:00.500 who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord? 00:01:01.550 --> 00:01:06.700 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in 00:01:06.700 --> 00:01:09.340 reverence of all them that are about him. 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:14.840 O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee? 00:01:15.420 --> 00:01:17.529 or to thy faithfulness round about thee? 00:01:18.579 --> 00:01:23.490 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof 00:01:23.500 --> 00:01:26.220 arise, thou stillest them. 00:01:27.520 --> 00:01:33.790 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered 00:01:33.790 --> 00:01:35.550 thine enemies with thy strong arm. 00:01:36.600 --> 00:01:42.590 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the 00:01:42.590 --> 00:01:45.800 fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. 00:01:46.660 --> 00:01:49.929 The north and the south thou hast created them: 00:01:51.970 --> 00:01:54.100 Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. 00:01:55.050 --> 00:02:00.910 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. 00:02:01.530 --> 00:02:06.759 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy 00:02:06.810 --> 00:02:09.350 and truth shall go before thy face. 00:02:10.750 --> 00:02:15.460 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O 00:02:15.460 --> 00:02:16.880 Lord, in the light of thy countenance. 00:02:18.190 --> 00:02:22.079 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:24.240 righteousness shall they be exalted. 00:02:25.220 --> 00:02:29.799 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour 00:02:29.880 --> 00:02:31.439 our horn shall be exalted. 00:02:31.940 --> 00:02:37.690 For the Lord is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king. 00:02:39.380 --> 00:02:43.560 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid 00:02:43.570 --> 00:02:48.600 help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. 00:02:49.449 --> 00:02:54.310 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: 00:02:55.340 --> 00:03:00.540 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him. 00:03:01.540 --> 00:03:06.179 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. 00:03:06.980 --> 00:03:12.330 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. 00:03:13.650 --> 00:03:18.360 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:20.480 name shall his horn be exalted. 00:03:21.750 --> 00:03:26.610 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:33.410 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. 00:03:35.050 --> 00:03:39.370 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. 00:03:40.340 --> 00:03:46.250 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 00:03:47.320 --> 00:03:51.310 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his 00:03:51.320 --> 00:03:53.260 throne as the days of heaven. 00:03:55.190 --> 00:04:02.690 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; If they break my 00:04:02.690 --> 00:04:09.520 statutes, and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:11.920 the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 00:04:12.730 --> 00:04:18.290 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor 00:04:18.290 --> 00:04:20.050 suffer my faithfulness to fail. 00:04:21.050 --> 00:04:25.840 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. 00:04:26.570 --> 00:04:30.150 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. 00:04:31.640 --> 00:04:37.370 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. 00:04:38.789 --> 00:04:44.020 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. 00:04:44.500 --> 00:04:45.040 Selah. 00:04:47.170 --> 00:04:52.780 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:58.950 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his 00:04:58.950 --> 00:05:01.120 crown by casting it to the ground. 00:05:02.059 --> 00:05:07.670 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin. 00:05:08.799 --> 00:05:14.509 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours. 00:05:15.859 --> 00:05:19.620 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast 00:05:19.650 --> 00:05:21.789 made all his enemies to rejoice. 00:05:22.760 --> 00:05:27.350 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made 00:05:27.350 --> 00:05:28.559 him to stand in the battle. 00:05:29.590 --> 00:05:34.089 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. 00:05:34.930 --> 00:05:40.560 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. 00:05:41.340 --> 00:05:41.909 Selah. 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:44.610 How long, Lord? 00:05:44.740 --> 00:05:46.410 wilt thou hide thyself for ever? 00:05:47.239 --> 00:05:49.039 shall thy wrath burn like fire? 00:05:49.919 --> 00:05:55.289 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? 00:05:56.059 --> 00:05:58.780 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? 00:05:59.570 --> 00:06:02.370 shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? 00:06:02.690 --> 00:06:03.230 Selah. 00:06:05.230 --> 00:06:09.059 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou 00:06:09.060 --> 00:06:11.059 swarest unto David in thy truth? 00:06:12.030 --> 00:06:17.500 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom 00:06:17.510 --> 00:06:19.600 the reproach of all the mighty people; 00:06:20.520 --> 00:06:24.350 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached 00:06:24.890 --> 00:06:26.549 the footsteps of thine anointed. 00:06:27.960 --> 00:06:30.280 Blessed be the Lord for evermore. 00:06:30.280 --> 00:06:31.760 Amen, and Amen.