A song written by Ethan, from the clan of Ezra

1Yahweh, I will sing forever about the ways you faithfully love me; people not yet born will hear that you faithfully do all that you have promised.

2I will tell people that you will faithfully love us forever, and that your being faithful to do what you have promised is as permanent as the sky.

3Yahweh said, “I have made an agreement with David, whom I chose to serve me. I have made this solemn ◄agreement with/promise to► him:

4‘I will enable various ones of your descendants to always be kings; the line of kings descended from you [MTY] will never end.’” (Think about that!) 10

5Yahweh, I desire that all those beings who are in [MTY] heaven will praise you for the wonderful things that you do, and that all your holy angels will sing about how you faithfully do what you promise.

6There is no one [RHQ] in heaven who can be compared with you, Yahweh. There are no angels [RHQ] in heaven who are equal to you.

7When your holy angels gather together, they declare that you must be revered; they say that you are more awesome than all the angels that surround your throne!

8O Yahweh, God Almighty, there is no one [RHQ] who is powerful like you are; your faithfully doing all that you promise is like a cloak that [MET] always surrounds you.

9You rule over the powerful seas; when their waves rise up, you calm them.

10You are the one who crushed and killed the great sea monster named Rahab. You defeated and scattered your enemies with your great power [MTY].

11The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours; and everything on the earth is yours, because you created it all.

12You created everything from the north to the south. Tabor Mountain and Hermon Mountain joyfully praise you [MTY].

13◄You/Your arms► are very powerful; ◄you/your hands► are extremely strong.

14◄Your rule [MTY] over us is based on/As you rule over us, you are always► treating people fairly and justly, and on/are always faithfully loving us and doing what you promised.

15Yahweh, happy are the people who worship you with joyful shouts, who live knowing that you are always watching over them.

16Every day, throughout the day, they rejoice in what you [MTY] have done, and they praise you for being very good to them.

17You give us your glorious strength; because you act in our favor, we defeat [MET] our enemies.

18Yahweh, you gave us the one who protects us [MET]; you, the holy God whom we Israelis worship, chose a king for us.

19Long ago you spoke in a vision to one of your servants/prophets, saying, “I have helped a famous soldier; I chose him from among all the people to be a king.

20That man is David, the one who will serve me faithfully, and I anointed him with sacred olive oil to make him king.

21I [MTY] will always strengthen him; with my power [MTY] I will make him strong.

22His enemies will never find ways to defeat him, and wicked people will never defeat him.

23I will crush his enemies in front of him and get rid of those who hate him.

24I will always be loyal to him and faithfully love him and enable him to defeat [MET] his enemies.

25I will cause ◄his kingdom/the area that he rules► to include all the land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Euphrates River.

26He will say to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the one who protects [MET] and saves me.’

27I will give him the rights/privileges that a man’s firstborn son has [MET]; he will be the greatest king on the earth.

28I will always be loyal to him, and my agreement to bless him will last forever.

29I will establish a line of his descendants that will never end, various ones of his descendants will always be kings.

30But, if some of his descendants disobey my laws, and do not not behave like my commands say that they should,

31if they disregard my requirements and do not do the right things that I have told them to do,

32I will punish them severely [MTY] and cause them to suffer for doing wrong.

33But I will not stop faithfully loving David, and I will always do what I promised him.

34I will not break the agreement that I made with him; I will not change even one word that I spoke to him.

35Once I made a solemn promise to David, and that will never change, and because I am God, I will never lie to David.

36I promised that the line of kings descended from him will go on forever; it will last as long as the sun shines.

37That line will ◄be as permanent/last as long► as the moon that is always watching everything from the sky. Think about that!)

38But Yahweh, now you have rejected [DOU] David! You are very angry with the king whom you appointed.

39It seems that you have broken the agreement that you made with your servant, David; it seems as though you have signaled that he is no longer the king by throwing his crown into the dust/dirt.

40You have torn down the walls that protect his city, and allowed all his forts to become ruins.

41All those who pass by plunder/steal his possessions; his neighbors ◄laugh at/ridicule► him.

42You have enabled his enemies to defeat him; you have made them all happy.

43You have caused his sword to become useless, and you have not helped him in his battles.

44You have caused his splendor to end (OR, You have taken away his power by knocking his throne to the ground.

45You have caused him to look old when he is still young and caused him to be very shamed/disgraced. (Think about that!)

46O Yahweh, how long will this continue? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger burn like a fire?

47Do not forget that life is very short; have you created all us people in vain?

48No one can [RHQ] keep on living and never die; ◄No one can [RHQ] avoid going/Everyone will go► to the place of the dead. (Think about that!)

49Yahweh, you promised long ago that you would faithfully love us; why are you not doing that?
You solemnly promised that to David!

50Yahweh, do not forget that people insult me! ◄Heathen people/People who do not know you► curse me!

51Yahweh, your enemies insult your chosen king! They insult/ridicule him wherever he goes.

52I hope/desire that Yahweh will be praised forever!
Amen! May it be so!