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PSAL M 90
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I have selected him from the common
people to be king.
I have found my servant David.
I have anointed him with my holy oil.
I will steady him with my hand;
with my powerful arm I will make him
strong.
His enemies will not defeat him,
nor will the wicked overpower him.
I will beat down his adversaries before him
and destroy those who hate him.
My faithfulness and unfailing love will be
with him,
and by my authority he will grow in power.
I will extend his rule over the sea,
his dominion over the rivers.
And he will call out to me, ‘You are my
Father,
my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’
I will make him my firstborn son,
the mightiest king on earth.
I will love him and be kind to him forever;
my covenant with him will never end.
I will preserve an heir for him;
his throne will be as endless as the days
of heaven.
But if his descendants forsake my
instructions
and fail to obey my regulations,
if they do not obey my decrees
and fail to keep my commands,
then I will punish their sin with the rod,
and their disobedience with beating.
But I will never stop loving him
nor fail to keep my promise to him.
No, I will not break my covenant;
I will not take back a single word I said.
I have sworn an oath to David,
and in my holiness I cannot lie:
His dynasty will go on forever;
his kingdom will endure as the sun.
It will be as eternal as the moon,
my faithful witness in the sky!” Interlude
But now you have rejected him and cast
him off.
You are angry with your anointed king.
You have renounced your covenant
with him;
you have thrown his crown in the dust.
You have broken down the walls
protecting him
and ruined every fort defending him.
Everyone who comes along has robbed him,
and he has become a joke to his
neighbors.
You have strengthened his enemies
and made them all rejoice.
You have made his sword useless
and refused to help him in battle.
89:48 Hebrew of Sheol.
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You have ended his splendor
and overturned his throne.
You have made him old before his time
and publicly disgraced him.
Interlude
O Lord, how long will this go on?
Will you hide yourself forever?
How long will your anger burn like fire?
Remember how short my life is,
how empty and futile this human
existence!
No one can live forever; all will die.
No one can escape the power of
the grave.*
Interlude
Lord, where is your unfailing love?
You promised it to David with a faithful
pledge.
Consider, Lord, how your servants are
disgraced!
I carry in my heart the insults of so
many people.
Your enemies have mocked me, O Lord;
they mock your anointed king wherever
he goes.
Praise the Lord forever!
Amen and amen!
Book Four (Psalms 90–106)
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A prayer of Moses, the man of God.
Lord, through all the generations
you have been our home!
Before the mountains were born,
before you gave birth to the earth and
the world,
from beginning to end, you are God.
You turn people back to dust, saying,
“Return to dust, you mortals!”
For you, a thousand years are as a
passing day,
as brief as a few night hours.
You sweep people away like dreams that
disappear.
They are like grass that springs up in
the morning.
In the morning it blooms and flourishes,
but by evening it is dry and withered.
We wither beneath your anger;
we are overwhelmed by your fury.
You spread out our sins before you—
our secret sins—and you see them all.
We live our lives beneath your wrath,
ending our years with a groan.
Seventy years are given to us!
Some even live to eighty.
But even the best years are filled with pain
and trouble;
soon they disappear, and we fly away.