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<p class="indent2">From generation to generation I will make known Your faithfulness with my mouth. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For I have said, “Lovingkindness will be built up forever; <p class="indent2">In the heavens You will establish Your faithfulness.” <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“I have cut a covenant with My chosen; <p class="indent2">I have sworn to David My <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>servant, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I will establish your seed forever <p class="indent2">And build up your throne from generation to generation.” <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Selah. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The heavens will praise Your wonders, O Yahweh; <p class="indent2">Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For who in the sky is comparable to Yahweh? <p class="indent2">Who among the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>sons of the mighty is like Yahweh, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>A God greatly dreaded in the council of the holy ones, <p class="indent2">And <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>fearsome above all those who are around Him? <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>O Yahweh God of hosts, who is like You, O mighty Yah? <p class="indent2">Your faithfulness also surrounds You. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You rule the swelling of the sea; <p class="indent2">When its waves rise, You still them. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You Yourself crushed <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Rahab like one who is slain; <p class="indent2">You scattered Your enemies with Your strong arm. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; <p class="indent2">The world and its fullness, You have founded them. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The north and the south, You have created them; <p class="indent2">Tabor and Hermon sing with joy at Your name. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You have a mighty arm; <p class="indent2">Your hand is strong, Your right hand is exalted. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; <p class="indent2">Lovingkindness and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>truth go before You. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>How blessed are the people who know the loud shout of joy! <p class="indent2">O Yahweh, they walk in the light of Your face. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>In Your name they rejoice all the day, <p class="indent2">And by Your righteousness they are exalted. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For You are the beauty of their strength, <p class="indent2">And by Your favor <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>our horn is exalted. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For our shield belongs to Yahweh, <p class="indent2"><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>And our king to the Holy One of Israel. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Formerly You spoke in vision to Your <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>holy <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>ones, <p class="indent2">And said, “I have bestowed help to a mighty one; <p class="indent2">I have exalted one chosen from the people. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I have found David My <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>servant; <p class="indent2">With My holy oil I have anointed him, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>With whom My hand will be established; <p class="indent2">My arm also will strengthen him. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The enemy will not <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>deceive him, <p class="indent2">Nor the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>son of unrighteousness afflict him. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But I shall crush his adversaries before him, <p class="indent2">And strike those who hate him. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>My faithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with him, <p class="indent2">And in My name his horn will be exalted. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I shall also set his hand on the sea <p class="indent2">And his right hand on the rivers. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, <p class="indent2">My God, and the rock of my salvation.’ <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>I also shall make him <i>My</i> firstborn, <p class="indent2">The highest of the kings of the earth. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever, <p class="indent2">And My covenant shall be confirmed to him. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>So I will set up his seed <i>to endure</i> forever <p class="indent2">And his throne as the days of heaven. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>“If his sons forsake My law <p class="indent2">And do not walk in My judgments, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>If they profane My statutes <p class="indent2">And do not keep My commandments, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Then I will punish their transgression with the rod <p class="indent2">And their iniquity with striking. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>But I will not break off My lovingkindness from him, <p class="indent2">Nor deal falsely in My faithfulness. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>My covenant I will not profane, <p class="indent2">Nor will I alter what comes forth from My lips. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Once I have sworn by My holiness; <p class="indent2">I will not lie to David. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>His seed shall endure forever <p class="indent2">And his throne as the sun before Me. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>It shall be established forever like the moon, <p class="indent2">And the witness in the sky is faithful.” <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Selah. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>But You have cast off and rejected, <p class="indent2">You have been full of wrath <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>against Your anointed. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>You have spurned the covenant of Your <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>slave; <p class="indent2">You have profaned his crown to the ground. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>You have broken down all his walls; <p class="indent2">You have beset his strongholds with ruin. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>All who pass along the way plunder him; <p class="indent2">He has become a reproach to his neighbors. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; <p class="indent2">You have made all his enemies be glad. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>You also turn back the edge of his sword <p class="indent2">And have not made him arise in battle. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>You have made his <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>splendor to cease <p class="indent2">And cast his throne to the ground. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>You have shortened the days of his youth; <p class="indent2">You have wrapped him up with shame. Selah. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>How long, O Yahweh? <p class="indent2">Will You hide Yourself forever? <p class="indent2">Will Your wrath burn like fire? <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>Remember <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>what my span of life is; <p class="indent2">For what vanity <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>You have created all the sons of men! <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>What man can live and not see death? <p class="indent2">Can he provide his soul escape from the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>power of Sheol? Selah. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>Where are Your former lovingkindnesses, O Lord, <p class="indent2">Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness? <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>slaves; <p class="indent2"><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>How I bear in my bosom <i>the reproach of</i> all the many peoples, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>With which Your enemies have reproached, O Yahweh, <p class="indent2">With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>Blessed be Yahweh forever! <p class="indent2">Amen and Amen.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">Title</span> Possibly <i>Contemplative</i>, <i>Didactic</i>, <i>Skillful Psalm</i><br><span class="fnverse">Title</span> 1 Kin 4:31<br><span class="fnverse">Title</span> Ps 88: title<br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i>slave</i>, cf. 89:39; see Preface, “The Terminology of Slave”<br><span class="fnverse">4</span> <i>Selah</i> may mean <i>Pause</i>, <i>Crescendo</i>, <i>Musical Interlude</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Or <i>sons of gods</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Or <i>awesome</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Egypt<br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i>faithfulness</i><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> Or <i>You exalt our horn</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Or <i>Even to the Holy One of Israel our King</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Or <i>ones of lovingkindness</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Some mss <i>one</i>, cf. 16:10<br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Or <i>slave</i>,cf. 89:39; see Preface, “The Terminology of Slave”<br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Or <i>exact usury from him</i><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> Or <i>unrighteous man</i><br><span class="fnverse">35</span> Or <i>One thing</i><br><span class="fnverse">37</span> <i>Selah</i> may mean <i>Pause</i>, <i>Crescendo</i>, <i>Musical Interlude</i><br><span class="fnverse">38</span> Lit <i>with</i><br><span class="fnverse">39</span> Or <i>servant</i>, cf. Ps 89:3, 20<br><span class="fnverse">44</span> Lit <i>clearness</i>, <i>luster</i><br><span class="fnverse">47</span> Lit <i>of what duration I am</i><br><span class="fnverse">47</span> Or <i>have You...men?</i><br><span class="fnverse">48</span> Lit <i>hand</i><br><span class="fnverse">50</span> Or <i>servants</i>, cf. Ps 89:3, 20<br><span class="fnverse">50</span> Lit <i>My bearing in my bosom</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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