1 The learning of Ethan the Ezrahite. I shall sing without end; the mercies of the Lord. In generation and into generation; I shall tell thy truth with my mouth.

2 For thou saidest, Without end mercy shall be builded in heavens; thy truth shall be made ready in those [or them].

3 Thou saidest, I disposed a testa-ment to my chosen men; I swore to David, my servant,

4 till into without end I shall make ready thy seed. And I shall build thy seat; in generation, and into generation.

5 Lord, heavens shall acknowledge thy marvels; and thy truth in the church of saints.

6 For who in the clouds shall be made even to the Lord; shall be like God among the sons of God?

7 God, that is glorified in the council of saints; is great, and dreadful over all that be in his compass.

8 Lord God of virtues, who is like thee? Lord, thou art mighty, and thy truth is in thy compass.

9 Thou art Lord of the power of the sea; forsooth thou assuagest the stirring of the waves thereof.

10 Thou madest low the proud, as wounded; in the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thine enemies.

11 Heavens be thine, and the earth is thine; thou hast founded the world, and the fullness thereof;

12 thou madest of nought the north and the sea. Tabor and Hermon shall make full out joy in thy name;

13 thine arm with power. Thine hand be made steadfast, and thy right hand be enhanced;

14 rightfulness [or rightwiseness] and doom is the making ready of thy seat. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face;

15 blessed is the people that know a hearty song. Lord, they shall go in the light of thy cheer;

16 and in thy name they shall make full out joy all day; and they shall be enhanced in thy rightfulness [or right-wiseness].

17 For thou art the glory of the virtue of them; and in thy good pleasance our horn shall be enhanced.

18 For our taking up is of the Lord; and of the Holy of Israel our king.

19 Then thou spakest in revelation to thy saints, and saidest, I have set [or put] help in the mighty; and I have enhanced the chosen man of my people.

20 I found David, my servant; I anointed him with mine holy oil.

21 For mine hand shall help him; and mine arm shall confirm him.

22 The enemy shall nothing profit in him; and the son of wickedness shall not lay to or put to, for to annoy him.

23 And I shall slay his enemies from his face; and I shall turn into flight them that hate him.

24 And my truth and mercy shall be with him; and his horn shall be enhanced in my name.

25 And I shall set [or put] his hand in the sea; and his right hand in floods.

26 He shall inwardly call me, Thou art my father; my God, and the up-taker of mine health.

27 And I shall set him the first be-gotten son; higher than the kings of earth.

28 Without end I shall keep my mercy to him; and my testament faithful to him.

29 And I shall set his seed into the world of world; and his throne as the days of heaven.

30 Forsooth if his sons forsake my law; and go not in my dooms.

31 If they make unholy my rightful-nesses; and keep not my command-ments.

32 I shall visit in a rod the wicked-nesses of them; and in beatings the sins of them.

33 But I shall not scatter my mercy from him; and in my truth I shall not annoy him.

34 Neither I shall make unholy my testament; and I shall not make void those things that come forth of my lips.

35 Once I swore in mine holiness, I shall not lie to David;

36 his seed shall dwell without end. And his throne as [the] sun in my sight,

37 and as a perfect moon without end; and a faithful witness in heaven.

38 But thou hast put away, and despised; and hast delayed thy christ.

39 Thou hast turned away the testa-ment of thy servant; thou madest unholy his saintuary in earth.

40 Thou destroyedest all the hedges thereof; thou hast set the steadfastness thereof into dread.

41 All men passing by the way ravished him; he is made a shame to his neighbours.

42 Thou hast enhanced the right hand of men oppressing him; thou hast gladdened all his enemies.

43 Thou hast turned away the help of his sword; and thou helpedest not him in battle.

44 Thou destroyedest him from cleansing; and thou hast hurled down his seat in [the] earth.

45 Thou hast made less the days of his time; thou hast beshed him with shame.

46 Lord, how long turnest thou away, into the end; shall thine ire burn out as fire?

47 Bethink thou what is my substance; for whether thou hast ordained vainly all the sons of men?

48 Who is a man, that shall live, and shall not see death; shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hell?

49 Lord, where be thine eld [or old] mercies; as thou hast sworn to David in thy truth?

50 Lord, be thou mindful of the shame of thy servants; of the insults of many heathen men, which I held together in my bosom.

51 Which thine enemies, Lord, did shamefully; for they despised the changing of thy christ.

52 Blessed be the Lord without end; be it done, be it done.