Psalm 89:20–37

²⁰I have found My servant David;

with My sacred oil I have anointed him.

²¹My hand will sustain him;

surely My arm will strengthen him.

²²No enemy will exact tribute;

no wicked man will oppress him.

²³I will crush his foes before him

and strike down those who hate him.

²⁴My faithfulness and loving devotion will be with him,

and through My name his horn will be exalted.

²⁵I will set his hand over the sea,

and his right hand upon the rivers.

²⁶He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father,

my God, the Rock of my salvation.’

²⁷I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn,

the highest of the kings of the earth.

²⁸I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him,

and My covenant with him will stand fast.

²⁹I will establish his line forever,

his throne as long as the heavens endure.

³⁰If his sons forsake My law

and do not walk in My judgments,

³¹if they violate My statutes

and fail to keep My commandments,

³²I will attend to their transgression with the rod,

and to their iniquity with stripes.

³³But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him,

nor ever betray My faithfulness.

³⁴I will not violate My covenant

or alter the utterance of My lips.

³⁵Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness —

I will not lie to David —

³⁶his offspring shall endure forever,

and his throne before Me like the sun,

³⁷like the moon, established forever,

a faithful witness in the sky.”

Selah