Psaumes 89.48
English standard version

Alliance de Dieu avec David

¹ A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord, forever;
with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations
² For I said, Steadfast love will be built up forever;
in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness
³ You have said, I have made a covenant with my chosen one;
I have sworn to David my servant:
⁴ I will establish your offspring forever,
and build your throne for all generations. Selah
⁵ Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Lord,
your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!
⁶ For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord?
Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,
⁷ a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones,
and awesome above all who are around him?
⁸ O Lord God of hosts,
who is mighty as you are, O Lord,
with your faithfulness all around you?
⁹ You rule the raging of the sea;
when its waves rise, you still them.
¹⁰ You crushed Rahab like a carcass;
you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
¹¹ The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours;
the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.
¹² The north and the south, you have created them;
Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.
¹³ You have a mighty arm;
strong is your hand, high your right hand.
¹⁴ Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
¹⁵ Blessed are the people who know the festal shout,
who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face,
¹⁶ who exult in your name all the day
and in your righteousness are exalted.
¹⁷ For you are the glory of their strength;
by your favor our horn is exalted.
¹⁸ For our shield belongs to the Lord,
our king to the Holy One of Israel.
¹⁹ Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, and said:
I have granted help to one who is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.
²⁰ I have found David, my servant;
with my holy oil I have anointed him,
²¹ so that my hand shall be established 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 my steadfast love shall be with him,
and in my name shall his horn 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 And I will make him the firstborn,
the highest of the kings of the earth.
²⁸ My steadfast love I will keep for him forever,
and my covenant will stand firm for him.
²⁹ I will establish his offspring forever
and his throne as the days of the heavens.
³⁰ If his children forsake my law
and do not walk according to my rules,
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 stripes,
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 for all I have sworn by my holiness;
I will not lie to David.
³⁶ His offspring shall endure forever,
his throne as long as the sun before me.
³⁷ Like the moon it shall be established forever,
a faithful witness in the skies. Selah
³⁸ But now you have cast off and rejected;
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 breached all his walls;
you have laid his strongholds in ruins.
⁴¹ All who pass by plunder him;
he has become the scorn of his neighbors.
⁴² You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
you have made all his enemies rejoice.
⁴³ You have also turned back the edge of his sword,
and you have not made him stand in battle.
⁴⁴ You have made his splendor to cease
and cast 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 forever?
How long will your wrath burn like fire?
⁴⁷ Remember how short my time is!
For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
⁴⁸ What man can live and never see death?
Who can deliver his soul from 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 servants are mocked,
and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations,
⁵¹ with which your enemies mock, O Lord,
with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.
⁵² Blessed be the Lord forever!
Amen and Amen.