1. Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite.
2. The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth Thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.
3. For Thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: Thy truth shall be prepared in them.
4. I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant:
5. Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation.
6. The heavens shall confess Thy wonders, O Lord: and Thy truth in the church of the saints.
7. For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or Who among the sons of God shall be like to God?
8. God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him.
9. O Lord God of hosts, who is like to Thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and Thy truth is round about thee.
2. The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth Thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation.
3. For Thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: Thy truth shall be prepared in them.
4. I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant:
5. Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation.
6. The heavens shall confess Thy wonders, O Lord: and Thy truth in the church of the saints.
7. For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or Who among the sons of God shall be like to God?
8. God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him.
9. O Lord God of hosts, who is like to Thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and Thy truth is round about thee.
10. Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof.
11. Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of Thy strength thou hast scattered Thy enemies.
12. Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof Thou hast founded:
13. The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in Thy name:
14. Thy arm is with might. Let Thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted:
15. Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:
16. Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of Thy countenance:
17. And in Thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in Thy justice they shall be exalted.
18. For Thou art the glory of their strength: and in Thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted.
19. For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel.
11. Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of Thy strength thou hast scattered Thy enemies.
12. Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof Thou hast founded:
13. The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in Thy name:
14. Thy arm is with might. Let Thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted:
15. Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:
16. Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of Thy countenance:
17. And in Thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in Thy justice they shall be exalted.
18. For Thou art the glory of their strength: and in Thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted.
19. For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel.