1: Your love, GOD, is my song, and I'll sing it! I'm forever telling everyone how faithful you are.
2: I'll never quit telling the story of your love--how you built the cosmos and guaranteed everything in it. Your love has always been our lives' foundation, your fidelity has been the roof over our world.
3: You once said, "I joined forces with my chosen leader, I pledged my word to my servant, David, saying,
4: "Everyone descending from you is guaranteed life; I'll make your rule as solid and lasting as rock.'"
5: GOD! Let the cosmos praise your wonderful ways, the choir of holy angels sing anthems to your faithful ways!
6: Search high and low, scan skies and land, you'll find nothing and no one quite like GOD.
7: The holy angels are in awe before him; he looms immense and august over everyone around him.
8: GOD of the Angel Armies, who is like you, powerful and faithful from every angle?
9: You put the arrogant ocean in its place and calm its waves when they turn unruly.
10: You gave that old hag Egypt the back of your hand, you brushed off your enemies with a flick of your wrist.
11: You own the cosmos--you made everything in it, everything from atom to archangel.
12: You positioned the North and South Poles; the mountains Tabor and Hermon sing duets to you.
13: With your well-muscled arm and your grip of steel--nobody trifles with you!
14: The Right and Justice are the roots of your rule; Love and Truth are its fruits.
15: Blessed are the people who know the passwords of praise, who shout on parade in the bright presence of GOD.
16: Delighted, they dance all day long; they know who you are, what you do--they can't keep it quiet!
17: Your vibrant beauty has gotten inside us--you've been so good to us! We're walking on air!
18: All we are and have we owe to GOD, Holy God of Israel, our King!
19: A long time ago you spoke in a vision, you spoke to your faithful beloved: "I've crowned a hero, I chose the best I could find;
20: I found David, my servant, poured holy oil on his head,
21: And I'll keep my hand steadily on him, yes, I'll stick with him through thick and thin.
22: No enemy will get the best of him, no scoundrel will do him in.
23: I'll weed out all who oppose him, I'll clean out all who hate him.
24: I'm with him for good and I'll love him forever; I've set him on high--he's riding high!
25: I've put Ocean in his one hand, River in the other;
26: he'll call out, "Oh, my Father--my God, my Rock of Salvation!'
27: Yes, I'm setting him apart as the First of the royal line, High King over all of earth's kings.
28: I'll preserve him eternally in my love, I'll faithfully do all I so solemnly promised.
29: I'll guarantee his family tree and underwrite his rule.
30: If his children refuse to do what I tell them, if they refuse to walk in the way I show them,
31: If they spit on the directions I give them and tear up the rules I post for them
32: -I'll rub their faces in the dirt of their rebellion and make them face the music.
33: But I'll never throw them out, never abandon or disown them.
34: Do you think I'd withdraw my holy promise? or take back words I'd already spoken?
35: I've given my word, my whole and holy word; do you think I would lie to David?
36: His family tree is here for good, his sovereignty as sure as the sun,
37: Dependable as the phases of the moon, inescapable as weather."
38: But GOD, you did walk off and leave us, you lost your temper with the one you anointed.
39: You tore up the promise you made to your servant, you stomped his crown in the mud.
40: You blasted his home to kingdom come, reduced his city to a pile of rubble
41: Picked clean by wayfaring strangers, a joke to all the neighbors.
42: You declared a holiday for all his enemies, and they're celebrating for all they're worth.
43: Angry, you opposed him in battle, refused to fight on his side;
44: You robbed him of his splendor, humiliated this warrior, ground his kingly honor in the dirt.
45: You took the best years of his life and left him an impotent, ruined husk.
46: How long do we put up with this, GOD? Are you gone for good? Will you hold this grudge forever?
47: Remember my sorrow and how short life is. Did you create men and women for nothing but this?
48: We'll see death soon enough. Everyone does. And there's no back door out of hell.
49: So where is the love you're so famous for, Lord? What happened to your promise to David?
50: Take a good look at your servant, dear Lord; I'm the butt of the jokes of all nations,
51: The taunting jokes of your enemies, GOD, as they dog the steps of your dear anointed.
52: Blessed be GOD forever and always! Yes. Oh, yes. A prayer of Moses, man of God