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Psalm 88:26-41 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

26. And I will place his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.

27. He will invoke me: "You are my father, my God, and the support of my salvation."

28. And I will make him the first-born, preeminent before the kings of the earth.

29. I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, and my covenant for him faithfully.

30. And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, and his throne like the days of heaven.

31. But if his sons abandon my law, and if they do not walk in my judgments,

32. if they profane my justices, and if they do not keep my commandments:

33. I will visit their iniquities with a rod, and their sins with a beating.

34. But I will not scatter my mercy from him, and I will not do harm to my truth.

35. And I will not profane my covenant, and I will not make void that which proceeds from my lips.

36. I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David,

37. his offspring will remain for eternity. And his throne will be like the sun in my sight,

38. and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven.

39. Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, you have pushed away, my Christ.

40. You have overthrown the covenant of your servant. You have profaned his sanctuary on earth.

41. You have destroyed all his fences. You have made his territory dreadful.

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