I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah forever:

2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever;

3 I have made a covenant with my chosen,

4 Thy seed will I establish forever,

5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah;

6 For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah?

7 A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones,

8 O Jehovah God of hosts,

9 Thou rulest the pride of the sea:

10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain;

11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine:

12 The north and the south, thou hast created them:

13 Thou hast a mighty arm;

14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne:

15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound:

16 In thy name do they rejoice all the day;

17 For thou art the glory of their strength;

18 For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah;

19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints,

20 I have found David my servant;

21 With whom my hand shall be established;

22 The enemy shall not exact from him,

23 And I will beat down his adversaries before him,

24 But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be with him;

25 I will set his hand also on the sea,

26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father,

27 I also will make him my firstborn,

28 My lovingkindness will I keep for him forevermore;

29 His seed also will I make to endure forever,

30 If his children forsake my law,

31 If they break my statutes,

32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod,

33 But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him,

34 My covenant will I not break,

35 Once have I sworn by my holiness:

36 His seed shall endure forever,

37 It shall be established forever as the moon,

38 But thou hast cast off and rejected,

39 Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant:

40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges;

41 All that pass by the way rob him:

42 Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries;

43 Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword,

44 Thou hast made his brightness to cease,

45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened:

46 How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself forever?

47 Oh remember how short my time is:

48 What man is he that shall live and not see death,

49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses,

50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants;

51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah,

52 Blessed be Jehovah forevermore. BOOK IV