In vision to thy holy one

Verse 1

In vision to thy holy one thou saidst, I help upon a strong one laid; out of the folk I raised a chosen one;

Verse 2

even David, I have found him out a servant unto me; and with my holy oil my King anointed him to be.

Verse 3

With whom my hand shall stablished be; mine arm shall make him strong.

Verse 4

From him the foe shall not exact, nor son of mischief wrong.

Verse 5

I will beat down before his face all his malicious foes; I will them greatly plague who do with hatred him oppose.

Verse 6

My mercy and my faithfulness with him yet still shall be; and in my name his horn and power men shall exalted see.

Verse 7

His hand of might shall reach afar; I’ll set it in the sea; and his right hand established shall in the rivers be.

Verse 8

Thou art my Father and my God, he unto me shall cry; the rock of my salvation thou on whom I do rely.

Verse 9

I’ll make him my first-born, more high than kings of any land.

Verse 10

My love I’ll ever keep for him, my covenant fast shall stand.

Verse 11

His seed I by my power will make for ever to endure; and, as the days of heaven, his throne shall stable be and sure.

Verse 12

But if his children shall forsake my laws, and go astray, and in my judgments shall not walk, but wander from the way:

Verse 13

If they my statutes do profane, my laws do not respect;

Verse 14

I’ll visit then their faults with rods, their sins with stripes correct.

Verse 15

Yet I’ll not take my love from him, nor false my promise make.

Verse 16

My covenant I’ll not break, nor change what with my mouth I spake.

Verse 17

Once by my holiness I sware, to David I’ll not lie;

Verse 18

his seed and throne shall, as the sun, before me last for aye.

Verse 19

Like the moon established it shall for ever be: the witness which is in the heaven doth witness faithfully.