Psalm of Solomon, Chapter 18

1. [A Psalm of Solomon. Still the Messiah of the Lord] Lord, your mercy [is] upon the works of your hands forever, your goodness upon Israel with a rich gift.    2. Your eyes [are] watching over them and no one of them will want. Your ears listen to the hopeful prayer of the poor.    3. Your judgments over the whole world [are] with mercy, and your love is upon the descendants of Abraham, [upon] sons of Israel.    4. Your discipline for us [is] as for a firstborn son, an only child, to divert the docile soul from the stupidity [caused] by ignorance.    5. May God purify Israel for the day of mercy in blessing, for the appointed day when He raises up his Messiah.    6. Blessed are those born in those days to see the good things of the Lord which he will do for the coming generation,    7. under the rod of discipline of the Messiah of the Lord, in the fear of his God, in wisdom of spirit, and of righteousness and of force,    8. to guide aright people in works of righteousness, in the fear of God, to establish them all before the Lord,    9. a good generation who fears God in the days of mercy. Pause.    10. Our God [is] great and glorious, who lives in the highest. He disposes in course the stars to [fix] time of the hours from day to day. And they have not deviated from their route, which he appointed them.    11. Their route each day is in the fear of God, from the day in which God created them forever.    12. And they have not led astray from the day he created them. From ancient generations they have not shrunk from their route except when God ordered them by the command of his servants.