PsalmsJudaism / Hebrew BibleAccepted ScriptureBiblical Hebrew / AramaicSharePsalms 88Douay - EnglishMoreVersion - 9 availableWorld English BibleKing James VersionAmerican Standard VersionDarby BibleYoung's Literal TranslationWebster BibleGeneva BibleDouay-Rheims ChallonerReina-Valera 1909WEBKJVASVDarbyYLTWebsterGenevaDouayRV1909LanguageEnglishEspañol‹Psalms 1Psalms 2Psalms 3Psalms 4Psalms 5Psalms 6Psalms 7Psalms 8Psalms 9Psalms 10Psalms 11Psalms 12Psalms 13Psalms 14Psalms 15Psalms 16Psalms 17Psalms 18Psalms 19Psalms 20Psalms 21Psalms 22Psalms 23Psalms 24Psalms 25Psalms 26Psalms 27Psalms 28Psalms 29Psalms 30Psalms 31Psalms 32Psalms 33Psalms 34Psalms 35Psalms 36Psalms 37Psalms 38Psalms 39Psalms 40Psalms 41Psalms 42Psalms 43Psalms 44Psalms 45Psalms 46Psalms 47Psalms 48Psalms 49Psalms 50Psalms 51Psalms 52Psalms 53Psalms 54Psalms 55Psalms 56Psalms 57Psalms 58Psalms 59Psalms 60Psalms 61Psalms 62Psalms 63Psalms 64Psalms 65Psalms 66Psalms 67Psalms 68Psalms 69Psalms 70Psalms 71Psalms 72Psalms 73Psalms 74Psalms 75Psalms 76Psalms 77Psalms 78Psalms 79Psalms 80Psalms 81Psalms 82Psalms 83Psalms 84Psalms 85Psalms 86Psalms 87Psalms 88Psalms 89Psalms 90Psalms 91Psalms 92Psalms 93Psalms 94Psalms 95Psalms 96Psalms 97Psalms 98Psalms 99Psalms 100Psalms 101Psalms 102Psalms 103Psalms 104Psalms 105Psalms 106Psalms 107Psalms 108Psalms 109Psalms 110Psalms 111Psalms 112Psalms 113Psalms 114Psalms 115Psalms 116Psalms 117Psalms 118Psalms 119Psalms 120Psalms 121Psalms 122Psalms 123Psalms 124Psalms 125Psalms 126Psalms 127Psalms 128Psalms 129Psalms 130Psalms 131Psalms 132Psalms 133Psalms 134Psalms 135Psalms 136Psalms 137Psalms 138Psalms 139Psalms 140Psalms 141Psalms 142Psalms 143Psalms 144Psalms 145Psalms 146Psalms 147Psalms 148Psalms 149Psalms 150›Psalms 88ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite. 2The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation. 3For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them. 4I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant: 5Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne unto generation and generation. 6The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in the church of the saints. 7For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among the sons of God shall be like to God? 8God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him. 9O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee. 10Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the waves thereof. 11Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies. 12Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded: 13The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name: 14Thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy right hand exalted: 15Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face: 16Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance: 17And in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy justice they shall be exalted. 18For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good pleasure shall our horn be exalted. 19For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one of Israel. 20Then 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. 21I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed him. 22For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him. 23The enemy shall have no advantage over him: nor the son of iniquity have power to hurt him. 24And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that hate him I will put to flight. 25And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. 26And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the rivers. 27He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the support of my salvation. 28And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth. 29I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him. 30And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven. 31And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments: 32If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments: 33I will visit their iniquities with a rod and their sins with stripes. 34But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail. 35Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void. 36Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: 37His seed shall endure for ever. 38And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for ever, and a faithful witness in heaven. 39But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with my anointed. 40Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth. 41Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength fear. 42All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach to his neighbours. 43Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. 44Thou hast turned away the help of his sword; and hast not assisted him in battle. 45Thou hast made his purification to cease: and thou hast cast his throne down to the ground. 46Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him with confusion. 47How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire? 48Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain? 49Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell? 50Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst swear to David in thy truth? 51Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have held in my bosom) of many nations: 52Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the change of thy anointed. 53Blessed be the Lord for evermore. 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