Psaumes 89.46
New International Version

Alliance de Dieu avec David

¹ I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever;
with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known
through all generations.

² I will declare that your love stands firm forever,
that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself.

³ You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David my servant,

⁴ ‘I will establish your line forever
and make your throne firm through all generations.’ ”

⁵ The heavens praise your wonders, Lord,
your faithfulness too, in the assembly of the holy ones.

⁶ For who in the skies above can compare with the Lord?
Who is like the Lord among the heavenly beings?

⁷ In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared;
he is more awesome than all who surround him.

⁸ Who is like you, Lord God Almighty?
You, Lord, are mighty, and your faithfulness surrounds you.

⁹ You rule over the surging sea;
when its waves mount up, you still them.

¹⁰ You crushed Rahab like one of the slain;
with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.

¹¹ The heavens are yours, and yours also the earth;
you founded the world and all that is in it.

¹² You created the north and the south;
Tabor and Hermon sing for joy at your name.

¹³ Your arm is endowed with power;
your hand is strong, your right hand exalted.

¹⁴ Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
love and faithfulness go before you.

¹⁵ Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you,
who walk in the light of your presence, Lord.

¹⁶ They rejoice in your name all day long;
they celebrate your righteousness.

¹⁷ For you are their glory and strength,
and by your favor you exalt our horn.

¹⁸ Indeed, our shield belongs to the Lord,
our king to the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹ Once you spoke in a vision,
to your faithful people you said:
“I have bestowed strength on a warrior;
I have raised up a young man from among the people.

²⁰ I have found David my servant;
with my sacred oil I have anointed him.

²¹ My hand will sustain him;
surely my arm will strengthen him.

²² The enemy will not get the better of him;
the wicked will not oppress him.

²³ I will crush his foes before him
and strike down his adversaries.

²⁴ My faithful love will be with him,
and through my name his horn will be exalted.

²⁵ I will set his hand over the sea,
his right hand over the rivers.

²⁶ He will call out to me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, the Rock my Savior.’

²⁷ And I will appoint him to be my firstborn,
the most exalted of the kings of the earth.

²⁸ I will maintain my love to him forever,
and my covenant with him will never fail.

²⁹ I will establish his line forever,
his throne as long as the heavens endure.

³⁰ “If his sons forsake my law
and do not follow my statutes,

³¹ if they violate my decrees
and fail to keep my commands,

³² I will punish their sin with the rod,
their iniquity with flogging;

³³ but I will not take my love from him,
nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.

³⁴ I will not violate my covenant
or alter what my lips have uttered.

³⁵ Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness —
and I will not lie to David —

³⁶ that his line will continue forever
and his throne endure before me like the sun;

³⁷ it will be established forever like the moon,
the faithful witness in the sky.”

³⁸ But you have rejected, you have spurned,
you have been very angry with your anointed one.

³⁹ You have renounced the covenant with your servant
and have defiled his crown in the dust.

⁴⁰ You have broken through all his walls
and reduced his strongholds to ruins.

⁴¹ All who pass by have plundered 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 Indeed, you have turned back the edge of his sword
and have not supported him in battle.

⁴⁴ You have put an end to his splendor
and cast his throne to the ground.

⁴⁵ You have cut short the days of his youth;
you have covered him with a mantle of shame.

⁴⁶ How long, Lord? Will you hide yourself forever?
How long will your wrath burn like fire?

⁴⁷ Remember how fleeting is my life.
For what futility you have created all humanity!

⁴⁸ Who can live and not see death,
or who can escape the power of the grave?

⁴⁹ Lord, where is your former great love,
which in your faithfulness you swore to David?

⁵⁰ Remember, Lord, how your servant has been mocked,
how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations,

⁵¹ the taunts with which your enemies, Lord, have mocked,
with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one.

⁵² Praise be to the Lord forever!
Amen and Amen.