1<\/sup>The understanding of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing the mercies of the Lord in eternity. I will announce your truth with my mouth, from generation to generation.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. Your truth will be prepared there.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant:<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>I will prepare your offspring, even in eternity. And I will build up your throne, from generation to generation.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, and also your truth, in the Church of the saints.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>For who among the clouds is equal to the Lord? Who among the sons of God is like God?<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>You rule over the power of the sea, and you even mitigate the movement of its waves.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>You have humbled the arrogant one, like one who has been wounded. You have scattered your enemies with the arm of your strength.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>You created the north and the sea. Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>Your arm acts with power. Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Blessed is the people that knows jubilation. They will walk in the light of your countenance, O Lord,<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>and they will exult in your name all day long, and they will be exalted in your justice.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>For you are the glory of their virtue, and in your goodness, our horn will be exalted.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>For our assumption is of the Lord, and it is of our king, the holy one of Israel.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>Then you spoke in a vision to your holy ones, and you said: I have stationed help with the powerful one, and I have exalted the elect one from my people.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>For my hand will assist him, and my arm will fortify him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>The enemy will have no advantage over him, nor will the son of iniquity be positioned to harm him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>And I will cut down his enemies before his face. And those who hate him, I will turn to flight.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>And my truth and my mercy will be with him. And his horn will be exalted in my name.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>And I will place his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>He will invoke me: “You are my father, my God, and the support of my salvation.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>And I will make him the first-born, preeminent before the kings of the earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, and my covenant for him faithfully.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, and his throne like the days of heaven.<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>But if his sons abandon my law, and if they do not walk in my judgments,<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>if they profane my justices, and if they do not keep my commandments:<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>I will visit their iniquities with a rod, and their sins with a beating.<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>But I will not scatter my mercy from him, and I will not do harm to my truth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 34<\/sup>And I will not profane my covenant, and I will not make void that which proceeds from my lips.<\/span> <\/p>\n 35<\/sup>I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David,<\/span> <\/p>\n 36<\/sup>his offspring will remain for eternity. And his throne will be like the sun in my sight,<\/span> <\/p>\n 37<\/sup>and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven.<\/span> <\/p>\n 38<\/sup>Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, you have pushed away, my Christ.<\/span> <\/p>\n 39<\/sup>You have overthrown the covenant of your servant. You have profaned his sanctuary on earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 40<\/sup>You have destroyed all his fences. You have made his territory dreadful.<\/span> <\/p>\n 41<\/sup>All who pass by the way have plundered him. He has become a disgrace to his neighbors.<\/span> <\/p>\n 42<\/sup>You have exalted the right hand of those who oppress him. You have brought joy to all his enemies.<\/span> <\/p>\n 43<\/sup>You have diverted the help of his sword, and you have not assisted him in battle.<\/span> <\/p>\n 44<\/sup>You have torn him away from cleansing, and you have smashed his throne down to the ground.<\/span> <\/p>\n 45<\/sup>You have reduced the days of his time. You have flooded him with confusion.<\/span> <\/p>\n 46<\/sup>How long, O Lord? Will you turn away unto the end? Will your wrath flare up like a fire?<\/span> <\/p>\n 47<\/sup>Remember what my substance is. For could you really have appointed all the sons of men in vain?<\/span> <\/p>\n 48<\/sup>Who is the man that will live, and yet not see death? Who will rescue his own soul from the hand of the underworld?<\/span> <\/p>\n 49<\/sup>O Lord, where are your mercies of antiquity, just as you swore to David in your truth?<\/span> <\/p>\n 50<\/sup>Be mindful, O Lord, of the disgrace of your servants (which I have sustained in my sinews) among many nations.<\/span> <\/p>\n 51<\/sup>With these, your enemies have reproached you, O Lord; with these, they have reproached the commutation of your Christ.<\/span> <\/p>\n 52<\/sup>Blessed is the Lord for all eternity. Amen. Amen.<\/span> <\/p>\n