24. "My faithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with him, And in My name his horn will be exalted.
25. "I shall also set his hand on the sea And his right hand on the rivers.
26. "He will cry to Me, 'You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.'
27. "I also shall make him My firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.
28. "My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever, And My covenant shall be confirmed to him.
29. "So I will establish his descendants forever And his throne as the days of heaven.
30. "If his sons forsake My law And do not walk in My judgments,
31. If they violate My statutes And do not keep My commandments,
32. Then I will punish their transgression with the rod And their iniquity with stripes.
33. "But I will not break off My lovingkindness from him, Nor deal falsely in My faithfulness.
34. "My covenant I will not violate, Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.
35. "Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David.
36. "His descendants shall endure forever And his throne as the sun before Me.
37. "It shall be established forever like the moon, And the witness in the sky is faithful." Selah.
38. But You have cast off and rejected, You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.
39. You have spurned the covenant of Your servant; You have profaned his crown in the dust.
40. You have broken down all his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
41. All who pass along the way plunder him; He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
42. You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; You have made all his enemies rejoice.
43. You also turn back the edge of his sword And have not made him stand in battle.