I Will Sing of His Love Forever 1 UDB Yahweh, I will sing forever about the ways you faithfully love me; people not yet born will hear that you faithfully do all that you have promised. BSB BSB: A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.
2 UDB I will tell people that you will faithfully love us forever, and that your being faithful to do what you have promised is as permanent as the sky. BSB BSB: For I have said, “Loving devotion is built up forever; in the heavens You establish Your faithfulness.”
3 UDB Yahweh said, "I have made an agreement with David, whom I chose to serve me. I have made this solemn agreement with him: BSB BSB: You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:
4 UDB 'I will enable various ones of your descendants to always be kings; the line of kings descended from you will never end.'" BSB BSB: ‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah
5 UDB Yahweh, I desire that all those beings who are in heaven will praise you for the wonderful things that you do, and that all your holy angels will sing about how you faithfully do what you promise. BSB BSB: The heavens praise Your wonders, O LORD—Your faithfulness as well—in the assembly of the holy ones.
6 UDB There is no one in heaven who can be compared with you, Yahweh. There are no angels in heaven who are equal to you. BSB BSB: For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?
7 UDB When your holy angels gather together, they declare that you must be revered; they say that you are more awesome than all the angels that surround your throne! BSB BSB: In the council of the holy ones, God is greatly feared, and awesome above all who surround Him.
8 UDB O Yahweh God, commander of the angel armies, there is no one who is as powerful as you are; your faithfully doing all that you promise is like a cloak that always surrounds you. BSB BSB: O LORD God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty LORD, Your faithfulness surrounds You.
9 UDB You rule over the powerful seas; when their waves rise up, you calm them. BSB BSB: You rule the raging sea; when its waves mount up, You still them.
10 UDB You are the one who crushed and killed the great sea monster named Rahab. You defeated and scattered your enemies with your great power. BSB BSB: You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
11 UDB The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours; everything on the earth is yours because you created it all. BSB BSB: The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded.
12 UDB You created everything from the north to the south. Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon joyfully praise you. BSB BSB: North and south You created; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.
13 UDB You are very powerful; you are extremely strong. BSB BSB: Mighty is Your arm; strong is Your hand. Your right hand is exalted.
14 UDB You rule over people fairly and justly; you are always faithfully loving us and doing what you promised. BSB BSB: Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; loving devotion and faithfulness go before You.
15 UDB Yahweh, how fortunate are those who worship you with joyful shouts in their festivals, who live knowing that you are always watching over them. BSB BSB: Blessed are those who know the joyful sound, who walk, O LORD, in the light of Your presence.
16 UDB Every day, throughout the day, they rejoice in what you have done, and they praise you for being very good to them. BSB BSB: They rejoice in Your name all day long, and in Your righteousness they exult.
17 UDB You give us your glorious strength; because you act in our favor, we defeat our enemies. BSB BSB: For You are the glory of their strength, and by Your favor our horn is exalted.
18 UDB Yahweh, you gave us the one who protects us; you, the holy God whom we Israelites worship, gave us our king. BSB BSB: Surely our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
19 UDB Long ago you spoke in a vision to one of your servants, saying, "I have crowned a famous soldier; I chose him from among all the people to be a king. BSB BSB: You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
20 UDB That man is David, the one who will serve me faithfully, and I anointed him with sacred olive oil to make him king. BSB BSB: I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.
21 UDB My strength will always be with him; with my power, I will make him strong. BSB BSB: My hand will sustain him; surely My arm will strengthen him.
22 UDB His enemies will never find ways to outwit him, and wicked people will never defeat him. BSB BSB: No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.
23 UDB I will crush his enemies in front of him and get rid of those who hate him. BSB BSB: I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
24 UDB I will always be loyal to him and faithfully love him and enable him to defeat his enemies. BSB BSB: My faithfulness and loving devotion will be with him, and through My name his horn will be exalted.
25 UDB I will cause his kingdom to include all the land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Euphrates River. BSB BSB: I will set his hand over the sea, and his right hand upon the rivers.
26 UDB He will say to me, 'You are my Father, my God, the one who protects and saves me.' BSB BSB: He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
27 UDB I will give him the rights as my firstborn son; he will be the greatest king on the earth. BSB BSB: I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
28 UDB I will always be loyal to him, and my agreement to bless him will last forever. BSB BSB: I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
29 UDB I will establish a line of his descendants that will never end, various ones of his descendants will always be kings. BSB BSB: I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.
30 UDB But if some of his descendants disobey my laws and do not behave as my commands say that they should, BSB BSB: If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,
31 UDB if they disregard my requirements and do not do the right things that I have told them to do, BSB BSB: if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,
32 UDB I will punish them severely and cause them to suffer for doing wrong. BSB BSB: I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.
33 UDB But I will not stop faithfully loving David, and I will always do what I promised him. BSB BSB: But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.
34 UDB I will not break the agreement that I made with him; I will not change even one word that I spoke to him. BSB BSB: I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
35 UDB Once I made a solemn promise to David, and that will never change; because I am God, I will never lie to David. BSB BSB: Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness—I will not lie to David—
36 UDB I promised that the line of kings descended from him will go on forever; it will last as long as the sun shines. BSB BSB: his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
37 UDB That line will be as permanent as the moon that is always watching everything here on earth." BSB BSB: like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah
38 UDB But Yahweh, now you have rejected him! You are very angry with the king whom you appointed. BSB BSB: Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.
39 UDB It seems that you have broken the agreement that you made with your servant David; it seems as though you have thrown his crown into the dust. BSB BSB: You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
40 UDB You have torn down the walls that protect his city and allowed all his forts to become ruins. BSB BSB: You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.
41 UDB All those who pass by plunder his possessions; his neighbors laugh at him. BSB BSB: All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
42 UDB You have enabled his enemies to defeat him; you have made them all happy. BSB BSB: You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.
43 UDB You have caused his sword to become useless, and you have not helped him in his battles. BSB BSB: You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.
44 UDB You have caused his splendor to end and knocked his throne to the ground. BSB BSB: You have ended his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.
45 UDB You have caused him to become old when he is still young and caused him to be very shamed. BSB BSB: You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah
46 UDB O Yahweh, how long will this continue? Will you hide yourself from us forever? How long will your anger against us burn like a fire? BSB BSB: How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
47 UDB Do not forget that life is very short; Do not forget that you have created all of us to die uselessly. BSB BSB: Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
48 UDB No one can keep on living and never die; no one can bring himself back from the place of the dead. BSB BSB: What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
49 UDB Yahweh, you promised long ago that you would faithfully love me; why are you not doing that? You solemnly promised this to David! BSB BSB: Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?
50 UDB Yahweh, do not forget that people insult us! Heathen people curse me! BSB BSB: Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—
51 UDB Yahweh, your enemies insult your chosen king! They insult him wherever he goes. BSB BSB: how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!
52 UDB I hope that Yahweh will be praised forever! Amen! May it be so! BSB BSB: Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and amen.
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