Psalm 89:19-52

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁹ Then you spoke in a vision to your faithful one, and said:
    ‘I have set the crown^[a] on one who is mighty,
    I have exalted one chosen from the people.
²⁰ I have found my servant David;
    with my holy oil I have anointed him;
²¹ my hand shall always remain with him;
    my arm also shall strengthen him.
²² The enemy shall not outwit him,
    the wicked shall not humble him.
²³ I will crush his foes before him
    and strike down those who hate him.
²⁴ My faithfulness and steadfast love shall be with him;
    and in my name his horn shall be exalted.
²⁵ I will set his hand on the sea
    and his right hand on the rivers.
²⁶ He shall cry to me, “You are my Father,
    my God, and the Rock of my salvation!”
²⁷ I will make him the firstborn,
    the highest of the kings of the earth.
²⁸ For-ever I will keep my steadfast love for him,
    and my covenant with him will stand firm.
²⁹ I will establish his line for ever,
    and his throne as long as the heavens endure.
³⁰ If his children forsake my law
    and do not walk according to my ordinances,
³¹ if they violate my statutes
    and do not keep my commandments,
³² then I will punish their transgression with the rod
    and their iniquity with scourges;
³³ but I will not remove from him my steadfast love,
    or be false to my faithfulness.
³⁴ I will not violate my covenant,
    or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
³⁵ Once and for all I have sworn by my holiness;
    I will not lie to David.
³⁶ His line shall continue for ever,
    and his throne endure before me like the sun.
³⁷ It shall be established for ever like the moon,
    an enduring witness in the skies.’Selah

³⁸ But now you have spurned and rejected him;
    you are full of wrath against your anointed.
³⁹ You have renounced the covenant with your servant;
    you have defiled his crown in the dust.
⁴⁰ You have broken through all his walls;
    you have laid his strongholds in ruins.
⁴¹ All who pass by plunder him;
    he has become the scorn of his neighbours.
⁴² You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
    you have made all his enemies rejoice.
⁴³ Moreover, you have turned back the edge of his sword,
    and you have not supported him in battle.
⁴⁴ You have removed the sceptre from his hand,^[b]
    and hurled his throne to the ground.
⁴⁵ You have cut short the days of his youth;
    you have covered him with shame.Selah

⁴⁶ How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself for ever?
    How long will your wrath burn like fire?
⁴⁷ Remember how short my time is—^[c]
    for what vanity you have created all mortals!
⁴⁸ Who can live and never see death?
    Who can escape the power of Sheol?Selah

⁴⁹ Lord, where is your steadfast love of old,
    which by your faithfulness you swore to David?
⁵⁰ Remember, O Lord, how your servant is taunted;
    how I bear in my bosom the insults of the peoples,^[d]
51 with which your enemies taunt, O Lord,
    with which they taunted the footsteps of your anointed.

⁵² Blessed be the Lord for ever.
Amen and Amen.