30“If his children forsake my law *
and do not walk according to my judgments;
31If they break my statutes *
and do not keep my commandments;
32I will punish their transgressions with a rod *
and their iniquities with the lash;
33But I will not take my love from him, *
nor let my faithfulness prove false.
34I will not break my covenant, *
nor change what has gone out of my lips.
35Once for all I have sworn by my holiness: *
‘I will not lie to David.
36His line shall endure for ever *
and his throne as the sun before me;
37It shall stand fast for evermore like the moon, *
the abiding witness in the sky.’”
38But you have cast off and rejected your anointed; *
you have become enraged at him.
39You have broken your covenant with your servant, *
defiled his crown, and hurled it to the ground.
40You have breached all his walls *
and laid his strongholds in ruins.
41All who pass by despoil him; *
he has become the scorn of his neighbors.
42You have exalted the right hand of his foes *
and made all his enemies rejoice.
43You have turned back the edge of his sword *
and have not sustained him in battle.
716Psalm 89
