WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.900 Psalm 89, Masculine of Ethan the Ezraite. 00:06.340 --> 00:09.040 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever. 00:09.880 --> 00:13.400 With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. 00:14.440 --> 00:17.280 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever. 00:17.920 --> 00:20.600 Thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens. 00:21.500 --> 00:23.640 I have made a covenant with my chosen. 00:24.280 --> 00:26.460 I have sworn unto David my servant. 00:26.460 --> 00:31.980 Thy seed will I establish forever and build up thy throne to all generations. 00:32.720 --> 00:33.120 Selah. 00:34.180 --> 00:38.640 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord, thy faithfulness also in the 00:38.640 --> 00:39.880 congregation of the saints. 00:40.680 --> 00:43.540 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? 00:44.420 --> 00:47.500 Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord? 00:48.480 --> 00:52.880 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints and to be had in 00:52.880 --> 00:54.940 reverence of all them that are about him. 00:54.940 --> 01:01.980 O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee, or to thy faithfulness 01:01.980 --> 01:02.760 round about thee? 01:03.680 --> 01:08.820 Thou rulest the raging of the sea when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. 01:09.740 --> 01:13.020 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces as one that is slain. 01:13.920 --> 01:16.600 Thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. 01:17.660 --> 01:21.100 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine. 01:21.100 --> 01:25.740 As for the world and the fullness thereof, thou hast founded them. 01:26.480 --> 01:29.240 The north and the south, thou hast created them. 01:30.120 --> 01:32.540 Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. 01:33.480 --> 01:38.400 Thou hast a mighty arm, strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. 01:39.580 --> 01:42.180 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne. 01:43.040 --> 01:45.220 Mercy and truth shall go before thy face. 01:46.380 --> 01:48.920 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound. 01:48.920 --> 01:52.780 They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance. 01:53.540 --> 01:58.960 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day, and in thy righteousness shall they 01:58.960 --> 01:59.620 be exalted. 02:00.240 --> 02:05.500 For thou art the glory of their strength, and in thy favor our horn shall be 02:05.500 --> 02:05.920 exalted. 02:06.860 --> 02:10.960 For the Lord is our defense, and the Holy One of Israel is our King. 02:11.940 --> 02:17.600 Then thou spakest in vision to thy Holy One, and saidst, I have laid help upon one 02:17.600 --> 02:18.240 that is mighty. 02:19.360 --> 02:21.580 I have exalted one chosen out of the people. 02:22.720 --> 02:24.480 I have found David my servant. 02:25.020 --> 02:30.000 With my holy oil have I anointed him, with whom my hand shall be established. 02:30.780 --> 02:32.740 Mine arm also shall strengthen him. 02:33.660 --> 02:37.980 The enemy shall not exact upon him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him. 02:38.440 --> 02:42.740 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. 02:42.740 --> 02:49.080 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be 02:49.080 --> 02:49.520 exalted. 02:50.460 --> 02:54.360 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. 02:55.140 --> 03:00.480 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. 03:01.540 --> 03:05.520 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. 03:06.220 --> 03:11.560 My mercy will I keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 03:12.200 --> 03:17.120 His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of 03:17.120 --> 03:17.360 heaven. 03:18.300 --> 03:22.840 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments, if they 03:22.840 --> 03:27.200 break my statutes, and keep not my commandments, then will I visit their 03:27.200 --> 03:30.280 transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 03:31.260 --> 03:36.180 Nevertheless, my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my 03:36.180 --> 03:37.300 faithfulness to fail. 03:38.040 --> 03:42.560 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips. 03:43.520 --> 03:47.320 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. 03:48.180 --> 03:52.740 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. 03:53.480 --> 03:57.900 It shall be established forever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven, 03:58.640 --> 03:59.000 Sila. 04:00.000 --> 04:04.320 But thou hast cast off an abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed, 04:05.260 --> 04:09.980 thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant, thou hast profaned his crown by 04:09.980 --> 04:15.580 casting it to the ground, thou hast broken down all his hedges, thou hast brought his 04:15.580 --> 04:21.780 strongholds to ruin, all that pass by the way spoil him, he is a reproach to his 04:21.780 --> 04:27.860 neighbors, thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries, thou hast made all his 04:27.860 --> 04:32.900 enemies to rejoice, thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made 04:32.900 --> 04:38.160 him to stand in the battle, thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne 04:38.160 --> 04:44.200 down to the ground, the days of his youth hast thou shortened, thou hast covered him 04:44.200 --> 04:46.020 with shame, Sila. 04:47.020 --> 04:48.200 How long, Lord? 04:49.100 --> 04:50.880 Wilt thou hide thyself forever? 04:51.920 --> 04:53.720 Shall thy wrath burn like fire? 04:54.840 --> 04:59.400 Remember how short my time is, wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? 05:00.400 --> 05:03.000 What man is he that liveth and shall not see death? 05:03.840 --> 05:06.300 Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? 05:07.000 --> 05:13.260 Sila, Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swearest unto 05:13.260 --> 05:14.360 David in thy truth? 05:15.120 --> 05:19.640 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants, how I do bear in my bosom the 05:19.640 --> 05:24.040 reproach of all the mighty people, wherewith thine enemies have reproached, 05:24.200 --> 05:28.080 O Lord, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine Anointed. 05:28.080 --> 05:31.140 Blessed be the Lord for evermore. 05:31.800 --> 05:33.720 Amen and amen.