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| The Book of Psalms 88 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) | ||||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:1 | Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:2 | The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:3 | For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:4 | I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant: | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:5 | Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:6 | The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:7 | For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God? | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:8 | God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:9 | O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:10 | Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:11 | Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:12 | Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded: | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:13 | the north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name: | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:14 | thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted: | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:15 | justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face: | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:16 | blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance: | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:17 | and in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:18 | For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:19 | For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:20 | Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my people. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:21 | I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:22 | For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:23 | The enemy shall have no advantage over him: nor the son of iniquity have power to hurt him. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:24 | And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that hate him I will put to flight. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:25 | And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:26 | And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the rivers. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:27 | He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the support of my salvation. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:28 | And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:29 | I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:30 | And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:31 | And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments: | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:32 | If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments: | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:33 | I will visit their iniquities with a rod: and their sins with stripes. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:34 | But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:35 | Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:36 | Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:37 | his seed shall endure for ever. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:38 | And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for ever, and a faithful witness in heaven. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:39 | But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with thy anointed. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:40 | Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:41 | Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:42 | All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:43 | Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:44 | Thou hast turned away the help of his sword; and hast not assisted him in battle. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:45 | Thou hast made his purification to cease: and thou hast cast his throne down to the ground. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:46 | Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him with confusion. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:47 | How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire? | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:48 | Remember what my substance is for hast thou made all the children of men in vain? | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:49 | Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell? | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:50 | Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst swear to David in thy truth? | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:51 | Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations: | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:52 | Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the change of thy anointed. | |||||||||||||||
| Psalms 88:53 | Blessed be the Lord for evermore. So be it. So be it. | |||||||||||||||
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