Psalm 89
or Coverdale
Part II Tunc locutus es

¹⁹You spoke once in a vision and said to your faithful people: *
"I have set the crown upon a warrior
and have exalted one chosen out of the people.
²⁰I have found David my servant; *
with my holy oil have I anointed him.
²¹My hand will hold him fast *
and my arm will make him strong.
²²No enemy shall deceive him, *
nor any wicked man bring him down.
²³I will crush his foes before him *
and strike down those who hate him.
²⁴My faithfulness and love shall be with him, *
and he shall be victorious through my Name.
²⁵I shall make his dominion extend *
from the Great Sea to the River.
²⁶He will say to me, ‘You are my Father, *
my God, and the rock of my salvation.'
²⁷I will make him my firstborn *
and higher than the kings of the earth.
²⁸I will keep my love for him for ever, *
and my covenant will stand firm for him.
²⁹I will establish his line for ever *
and his throne as the days of heaven.”
³⁰"If his children forsake my law *
and do not walk according to my judgments;
³¹If they break my statutes *
and do not keep my commandments;
³²I will punish their transgressions with a rod *
and their iniquities with the lash;
³³But I will not take my love from him, *
nor let my faithfulness prove false.
³⁴I will not break my covenant, *
nor change what has gone out of my lips.
³⁵Once for all I have sworn by my holiness: *
‘I will not lie to David.
³⁶His line shall endure for ever *
and his throne as the sun before me;
³⁷It shall stand fast for evermore like the moon, *
the abiding witness in the sky.'”
³⁸But you have cast off and rejected your anointed; *
you have become enraged at him.
³⁹You have broken your covenant with your servant, *
defiled his crown, and hurled it to the ground.
⁴⁰You have breached all his walls *
and laid his strongholds in ruins.
⁴¹All who pass by despoil him; *
he has become the scorn of his neighbors.
⁴²You have exalted the right hand of his foes *
and made all his enemies rejoice.
⁴³You have turned back the edge of his sword *
and have not sustained him in battle.
⁴⁴You have put an end to his splendor *
and cast his throne to the ground.
⁴⁵You have cut short the days of his youth *
and have covered him with shame.
⁴⁶How long will you hide yourself, O Lord?
will you hide yourself for ever? *
how long will your anger burn like fire?
⁴⁷Remember, Lord, how short life is, *
how frail you have made all flesh.
⁴⁸Who can live and not see death? *
who can save himself from the power of the grave?
⁴⁹Where, Lord, are your loving-kindnesses of old, *
which you promised David in your faithfulness?
⁵⁰Remember, Lord, how your servant is mocked, *
how I carry in my bosom the taunts of many peoples,
⁵¹The taunts your enemies have hurled, O Lord, *
which they hurled at the heels of your anointed.
⁵²Blessed be the Lord for evermore! *
Amen, I say, Amen.