1 I will sing evermore of the love of the LORD, 2For your love you did promise to build up forever, 3“I have made with my chosen a covenant, 4to establish his seed forever, 5Then the holy assembly in heaven 6For who in the skies may compare with the LORD? 7A God to be feared in the holy assembly, 8O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as you? 9You are the LORD of the raging sea: 10It was you who did pierce and crush Rahab in pieces, 11Yours are the heavens, yours also the earth, 12The north and the south, it’s you have created them; 13You have an arm with the might of a hero; 14Justice and right are the base of your throne, 15Happy the people who know the glad shout, 16They exult in your name all the day, 17For you are our strength and our pride. 18For the holy LORD of Israel 19In a vision of old you did speak 20I found my servant David, 21My hand will be with him forever, 22No enemy will dare to assail him, 23but his foes I will shatter before him, 24My loyal love shall attend him, 25I will set his hand on the sea, 26As for him, he will call me ‘My father, 27And I will make him my first-born, 28My love will I keep for him ever, 29His line will I make everlasting, 30If his children forsake my law, 31if they profane my statutes, 32I will punish their sin with the rod, 33But my love will I not take from him, 34I will not profane my covenant 35Once have I solemnly sworn 36that his line should endure forever, 37firm as the moon which for ever 38But you have cast off in contempt, 39You have spurned the covenant with your servant, 40You have broken down all his walls, 41All who pass on their way despoil him, 42You have given his foes the victory, 43You have turned back his sword from the foe, 44The sceptre you took from his hand, 45You have shortened the days of his youth, 46How long, LORD will you hide you forever? 47Remember, LORD, the shortness of life 48Who can live without seeing death? 49Where, LORD, is your kindness of old, 50Remember, O LORD, how your servants are mocked, 51The scorn which your enemies hurl, O LORD, 52