28. I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.
29. I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
30. If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
31. if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;
32. then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
33. But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
34. I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
35. Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.
36. His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.
37. It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.
38. But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.
39. You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
40. You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
41. All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
42. You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
43. Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle.
44. You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.
45. You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.
46. How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
47. Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
48. What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.