You shall know therefore, that the Lord your God, He [is] God, a faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy for them that love Him, and for those that keep His commandments to a thousand generations,

He shall give blessings truly to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers, according to the former days.

[A Psalm] of instruction for Ethan the Israelite. I will sing of Your mercies, O Lord, forever; I will declare Your truth with my mouth to all generations.

For You have said, Mercy shall be built up forever; Your truth shall be established in the heavens.

For the Lord is good, His mercy is everlasting; and His truth [endures] from generation to generation.

The heavens are Yours, and the earth is Yours; You have founded the world, and the fullness of it.

For the day before the Sabbath, when the land was [first] inhabited, the praise of a Song by David. The Lord reigns; He has clothed Himself with honor; the Lord has clothed and girded Himself with strength; for He has established the world, which shall not be moved.

Who establishes the earth on her sure foundation; it shall not ever be moved.

Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me now, if you have knowledge.

On what are its rings fastened? And who is He that laid the cornerstone upon it?

For this they willingly forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and [the] earth, consisting out of water and through water,

but the present heavens and earth, having been stored up by His word, are being reserved for fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.