Psalm 89

89 An instruction, by Ethan the Ezrahite. Of the kind acts of Jehovah, to the age I sing, To all generations I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth,

^2 ^For I said, `To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.'

^3 ^I have made a covenant for My chosen, I have sworn to David My servant:

^4 `Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah.

^5 ^and the heavens confess Thy wonders, O Jehovah, Thy faithfulness also [is] in an assembly of holy ones //sons of God/El//.

^6 ^For who in the sky //sons of God/El//, Compareth himself to Jehovah? Is like to Jehovah among sons of the mighty //sons of God/El//?

^7 ^God is very terrible, In the secret counsel of His holy ones //divine council// And fearful over all surrounding Him.

^8 ^O Jehovah, God of Hosts //sons of God/El//, Who [is] like Thee -- a strong Jah? And Thy faithfulness [is] round about Thee.

^9 ^Thou [art] ruler over the pride of the sea, In the lifting up of its billows Thou dost restrain them.

^10 ^Thou hast bruised Rahab, as one wounded. With the arm of Thy strength Thou hast scattered Thine enemies.

^11 ^Thine [are] the heavens -- the earth also [is] Thine, The habitable world and its fulness, Thou hast founded them.

^12 ^North and south Thou hast appointed them, Tabor and Hermon in Thy name do sing.

^13 ^Thou hast an arm with might, Strong is Thy hand -- high Thy right hand.

^14 ^Righteousness and judgment [Are] the fixed place of Thy throne, Kindness and truth go before Thy face.

^15 ^O the happiness of the people knowing the shout //teruah//, O Jehovah, in the light of Thy face they walk habitually.

^16 ^In Thy name they rejoice all the day, And in Thy righteousness they are exalted,

^17 ^For the beauty of their strength [art] Thou, And in Thy good will is our horn exalted,

^18 ^For of Jehovah [is] our shield, And of the Holy One of Israel our king.

^19 ^Then Thou hast spoken in vision, To Thy saint, yea, Thou sayest, I have placed help upon a mighty one, Exalted a chosen one out of the people,

^20 ^I have found David My servant, With My holy oil I have anointed him.

^21 ^With whom My hand is established, My arm also doth strengthen him.

^22 ^An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not.

^23 ^And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague,

^24 ^And My faithfulness and kindness [are] with him, And in My name is his horn exalted.

^25 ^And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand.

^26 ^He proclaimeth me: `Thou [art] my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.'

^27 ^I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth.

^28 ^To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant [is] stedfast with him.

^29 ^And I have set his seed for ever, And his throne as the days of the heavens.

^30 ^If his sons forsake My law //torah//, And in My judgments //right-rulings// do not walk;

^31 ^If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep,

^32 ^I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity,

^33 ^And My kindness I break not from him, Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness.

^34 ^I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.

^35 ^Once I have sworn by My holiness, I lie not to David,

^36 ^His seed is to the age, And his throne [is] as the sun before Me,

^37 ^As the moon it is established -- to the age, And the witness in the sky is stedfast. Selah.

^38 ^And Thou, Thou hast cast off, and dost reject, Thou hast shown Thyself wroth With Thine anointed,

^39 ^Hast rejected the covenant of Thy servant, Thou hast polluted to the earth his crown,

^40 ^Thou hast broken down all his hedges, Thou hast made his fenced places a ruin.

^41 ^Spoiled him have all passing by the way, He hath been a reproach to his neighbours,

^42 ^Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries, Thou hast caused all his enemies to rejoice.

^43 ^Also -- Thou turnest back the sharpness of his sword, And hast not established him in battle,

^44 ^Hast caused [him] to cease from his brightness, And his throne to the earth hast cast down.

^45 ^Thou hast shortened the days of his youth, Hast covered him over [with] shame. Selah.

^46 ^Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire?

^47 ^Remember, I pray Thee, what [is] life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

^48 ^Who [is] the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

^49 ^Where [are] Thy former kindnesses, O Lord. Thou hast sworn to David in Thy faithfulness,

^50 ^Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Thy servants, I have borne in my bosom all the strivings of the peoples,

^51 ^Wherewith Thine enemies reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached The steps of Thine anointed.

^52 ^Blessed [is] Jehovah to the age. Amen, and amen!

NOTES:

Heiser, Michael S.. The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. Lexham Press. Kindle Edition.

Psalm 89:5–7 (Hebrew: vv. 6–8) explicitly contradicts the notion of a divine council in which the elohim are humans.