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1 I will stroll around for eternity as aminstrel singing songs about the beautiful kindness and good deeds that Yahwehdoes!

I will verbally observe andrecognize the firm security of Your fidelity to all generations.

2 I have attested to the fact that the beautyof Your kind deeds will continue to be built up forever;

You have erected and prosperouslyestablished the firmness and security of Your fidelity in the heavensthemselves.

3 You have said, “I have made a covenant andan alliance with the one whom I have selected.

 I have sworn (repeating it 7 times toestablish it) unto David, My bondservant:

“I will fix and prosperouslyestablish your posterity for all time and I have surely given you children tobuild up your throne for all generation.”

Stop the music and think about what I’vesaid.

5 Let the heavens above revere and worshipYour marvelous and miraculous deeds with extended hands, O Yahweh;

And the firm security of Yourfidelity as well in the assembled company of Your holy ones!

6 Who is there among the celestial bodies whocould set themselves up to compare with Yahweh?

And who from among the gods caneven be likened to Yahweh?

7 Our god is to be abundantly dreaded and tocause others to shake terribly

In the council of the heavenlyhosts

In the council of the gods

And is reverenced anddreadfully feared by those who surround Him.

8 O Yahweh, the God of all the armies of Heaven,

Who is as strong and mighty likeYou, O Yahweh?!

Your firm, secure, fidelityencircles You on every side.

 15 How blessed and highly favored is the tribethat knows His battle cry from experience, who cry out with joy for Him,

They shall walk about, O Yahweh,

And be conversant in theluminance and clarity of Your Presence.

16 Who spin around in the violent emotion ofjoy because of Your name, honor, and the reputation of Your character all day,

Who are lifted up and exalted inYour prosperous rightness, rectitude, justice, and virtue.

17 You are our glorious strength and ourhonorable force, and the majesty of our praise;

And it is Your delightful favorand good pleasure that exalts our strength and power.

18 For Yahweh is our shield and protector(Yahweh gives me a thick skin),

And the superior Eminent One ofIsrael.

19 In the past You arranged things to speakYour oracles in dreams and visions to Your saints, those who are godly,declaring and certifying:

“I have adjusted things in orderto bring aid to those who are valiant.

I have raised up and promotedthe young men from among the people.

20 I caused David to be brought forth; Ibrought forth David My bondservant;

With the richness of My consecratedoil I have anointed him,

21 In order that My powerful hand or means anddirection will be fixed on him rendering him sure and prosperous;

And My outstretched arm as wellwill confirm him and establish him with obstinate strength and courage

22 His adversaries and those who hate on himwill not torment him or treat him cruelly with taxes or by exacting dues fromhim;

Neither will those who are theproducts and builders of iniquity and perverseness unjustly look down on him,browbeat him, or try to chasten him or deal hardly with him to hurt his prideor to weaken him.

23 I will bruise and violently strike thosewho trouble him, who are opposed to him, and who try to create a place toonarrow for him to live and walk, causing them to loose their composure and tobe crushed into pieces before his eyes;

And I will trip those whopersonally hate him and who consider him to be odious and will make themstumble.

24 My firm security and the stability of Myfaithfulness and the beauty of My favor and kindness will accompany him,

And based on the authority of Myname and My reputation he shall rise and be promoted in strength and power.