I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever:
with my mouth will I make known
thy faithfulness to all generations [to generation and generation].
² For I have said,
Mercy shall be built up for ever:
thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
³ I have made a covenant with my chosen,
I have sworn unto David my servant,
⁴ Thy seed will I establish for ever [unto perpetuity],
and build up thy throne to all generations [to generation and generation].
Selah.

⁵ And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD:
thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
⁶ For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD?
who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
⁷ God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints,
and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

⁸ O LORD God of hosts,
who is a strong LORD like unto thee?
or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
⁹ Thou rulest the raging of the sea:
when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
¹⁰ Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces,
as one that is slain;
thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
¹¹ The heavens are thine,
the earth also is thine:
as for the world and the fulness thereof,
thou hast founded them.
¹² The north and the south thou hast created them:
Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
¹³ Thou hast a mighty arm:
strong is thy hand,
and high is thy right hand.

¹⁴ Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne:
mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
¹⁵ Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound:
they shall walk, O LORD,
in the light of thy countenance.
¹⁶ In thy name shall they rejoice all the day:
and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
¹⁷ For thou art the glory of their strength:
and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
¹⁸ For the LORD is our defence;
and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

¹⁹ Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one,
and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
²⁰ I have found David my servant;
with my holy oil have I anointed him:
²¹ With whom my hand shall be established:
mine arm also shall strengthen him.
²² The enemy shall not exact upon him;
nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
²³ And I will beat down his foes before his face,
and plague them that hate him.
²⁴ But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him:
and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

²⁵ I will set his hand also in the sea,
and his right hand in the rivers.
²⁶ He shall cry unto me,
Thou art my father,
my God,
and the rock of my salvation.
²⁷ Also I will make him my firstborn,
higher than the kings of the earth.
²⁸ My mercy will I keep for him for evermore,
and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

²⁹ His seed also will I make to endure for ever,
and his throne as the days of heaven.
³⁰ If his children forsake my law,
and walk not in my judgments;
³¹ If they break my statutes,
and keep not my commandments;
³² Then will I visit their transgression with the rod,
and their iniquity withstripes.
³³ Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him,
nor suffer my faithfulness to fail [and not shall I be false in my faithfulness].
³⁴ My covenant will I not break,
nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
³⁵ Once have I sworn by my holiness
that I will not lie unto David.
³⁶ His seed shall endure for ever,
and his throne as the sun before me.
³⁷ It shall be established for ever as the moon,
and as a faithful witness in heaven.
Selah.

³⁸ But thou hast cast off and abhorred,
thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
³⁹ Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant:
thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
⁴⁰ Thou hast broken down all his hedges;
thou hast bought his strong holds to ruin.
⁴¹ All that pass by the way spoil him:
he is a reproach to his neighbours.

⁴² Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries;
thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
⁴³ Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword,
and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
⁴⁴ Thou hast made his glory to cease,
and cast his throne down to the ground.
⁴⁵ The days of his youth hast thou shortened:
thou hast covered [wrapped upon him] with shame.
Selah.
⁴⁶ How long [Until when], LORD?
wilt thou hide thyself for ever?
shall thy wrath burn like fire?
⁴⁷ Remember how short my time is:
wherefore hast thou made all men [sons of Adam] in vain?
⁴⁸ What man is he that liveth,
and shall not see death?
shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?
Selah.

⁴⁹ Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses,
which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
⁵⁰ Remember, Lord,
the reproach of thy servants;
how I do bear in my bosom
the reproach of all the mighty people;
⁵¹ Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD;
wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
⁵² Blessed be the LORD for evermore .
Amen, and Amen.

* NOTE: On Opening and Closing Comments in the Psalms.
[Some commentators take the Psalm in Habakkuk 3 to be a standard model for the Psalms.
Habakkuk's Psalm begins with the name of the composer (Habakkuk) and a musical notation ("upon Shigionoth").
It closes with a dedication or a "send to" notice ("To the chief singer on my stringed instruments").
I have arranged similar material, where it is found in the Psalter, in accord with the model in Habakkuk.]