891 I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever.
With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. 2 I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever.
You established the heavens.
Your faithfulness is in them.” 3 “I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David, my servant, 4 ‘I will establish your seed forever,
and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah.
5 The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh;
your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. 6 For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh?
Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh, 7 a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones,
to be feared above all those who are around him? 8 Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you?
Yah, your faithfulness is around you. 9 You rule the pride of the sea.
When its waves rise up, you calm them. 10 You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain.
You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. 11 The heavens are yours.
The earth also is yours;
the world and its fullness.
You have founded them. 12 The north and the south, you have created them.
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name. 13 You have a mighty arm.
Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted. 14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.
Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
15 Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you.
They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh. 16 In your name they rejoice all day.
In your righteousness, they are exalted. 17 For you are the glory of their strength.
In your favor, our horn will be exalted. 18 For our shield belongs to Yahweh;
our king to the Holy One of Israel.
19 Then you spoke in vision to your saints,
and said, “I have bestowed strength on the warrior.
I have exalted a young man from the people. 20 I have found David, my servant.
I have anointed him with my holy oil, 21 with whom my hand shall be established.
My arm will also strengthen him. 22 No enemy will tax him.
No wicked man will oppress him. 23 I will beat down his adversaries before him,
and strike those who hate him. 24 But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
In my name, his horn will be exalted. 25 I will set his hand also on the sea,
and his right hand on the rivers. 26 He will call to me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, and the rock of my salvation!’ 27 I will also appoint him my firstborn,
the highest of the kings of the earth. 28 I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore.
My covenant will stand firm with him. 29 I will also make his seed endure forever,
and his throne as the days of heaven. 30 If his children forsake my law,
and don’t walk in my ordinances; 31 if they break my statutes,
and don’t keep my commandments; 32 then I will punish their sin with the rod,
and their iniquity with stripes. 33 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him,
nor allow my faithfulness to fail. 34 I will not break my covenant,
nor alter what my lips have uttered. 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness,
I will not lie to David. 36 His seed will endure forever,
his throne like the sun before me. 37 It will be established forever like the moon,
the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.
38 But you have rejected and spurned.
You have been angry with your anointed. 39 You have renounced the covenant of your servant.
You have defiled his crown in the dust. 40 You have broken down all his hedges.
You have brought his strongholds to ruin. 41 All who pass by the way rob him.
He has become a reproach to his neighbors. 42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries.
You have made all of his enemies rejoice. 43 Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword,
and haven’t supported him in battle. 44 You have ended his splendor,
and thrown his throne down to the ground. 45 You have shortened the days of his youth.
You have covered him with shame. Selah. 46 How long, Yahweh?
Will you hide yourself forever?
Will your wrath burn like fire? 47 Remember how short my time is!
For what vanity have you created all the children of men! 48 What man is he who shall live and not see death,
who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah. 49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses,
which you swore to David in your faithfulness? 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants,
how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples, 51 With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh,
with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one. 52 Blessed be Yahweh forevermore.
Amen, and Amen.
BOOK IV
901 Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth,
before you had formed the earth and the world,
even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. 3 You turn man to destruction, saying,
“Return, you children of men.” 4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past,
like a watch in the night. 5 You sweep them away as they sleep.
In the morning they sprout like new grass. 6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up.
By evening, it is withered and dry.
7 For we are consumed in your anger.
We are troubled in your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath.
We bring our years to an end as a sigh. 10 The days of our years are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty years;
yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,
for it passes quickly, and we fly away. 11 Who knows the power of your anger,
your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
12 So teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom. 13 Relent, Yahweh!
How long?
Have compassion on your servants! 14 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen evil. 16 Let your work appear to your servants;
your glory to their children. 17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us;
establish the work of our hands for us;
yes, establish the work of our hands.
141 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. 2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. 3 Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him. 4 Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand. 5 One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind. 6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks. 7 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. 10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 11 For it is written,
“‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow.
Every tongue will confess to God.’” [1] 12 So then each one of us will give account of himself to God. 13 Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling. 14 I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died. 16 Then don’t let your good be slandered, 17 for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. 18 For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men. 19 So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up. 20 Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating. 21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak. 22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves. 23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. 24 Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, 25 but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; 26 to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen. [2]
