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href="/psalms/89-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>His descendants shall endure forever<br>         And his throne as the sun before Me. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>It shall be established forever like the moon,<br>         And the witness in the sky is faithful. <br><div align="right">Selah.</div> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>But You have cast off and rejected,<br>         You have been full of wrath against Your anointed. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>You have spurned the covenant of Your servant;<br>         You have profaned his crown in the dust. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>You have broken down all his walls;<br>         You have brought his strongholds to ruin. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>All who pass along the way plunder him;<br>         He has become a reproach to his neighbors. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries;<br>         You have made all his enemies rejoice. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>You also turn back the edge of his sword<br>         And have not made him stand in battle. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-44.htm" target="_top"><b>44</b></a></span>You have made his splendor to cease<br>         And cast his throne to the ground. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-45.htm" target="_top"><b>45</b></a></span>You have shortened the days of his youth;<br>         You have covered him with shame. <br><div align="right">Selah.</div> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-46.htm" target="_top"><b>46</b></a></span>How long, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>?<br>         Will You hide Yourself forever?<br>         Will Your wrath burn like fire? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-47.htm" target="_top"><b>47</b></a></span>Remember what my span of life is;<br>         For what vanity You have created all the sons of men! <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-48.htm" target="_top"><b>48</b></a></span>What man can live and not see death?<br>         Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? <br><div align="right">Selah.</div> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-49.htm" target="_top"><b>49</b></a></span>Where are Your former lovingkindnesses, O Lord,<br>         Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-50.htm" target="_top"><b>50</b></a></span>Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants;<br>         How I bear in my bosom <i>the reproach of</i> all the many peoples, <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-51.htm" target="_top"><b>51</b></a></span>With which Your enemies have reproached, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>,<br>         With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/89-52.htm" target="_top"><b>52</b></a></span>Blessed be the L<font size="1">ORD</font> forever!<br>         Amen and Amen.<p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/psalms/89.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/psalms/89.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/psalms/89.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />My covenant will I not profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/psalms/89.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/psalms/89.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that hath gone out of my lips.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/psalms/89.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/psalms/89.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_j/continual_sunshine.htm">Continual Sunshine</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of Thy countenance.'--PSALM lxxxix. 15. The Psalmist has just been setting forth, in sublime language, the glories of the divine character--God's strength, His universal sway, the justice and judgment which are the foundation of His Throne, the mercy and truth which go as heralds before His face. A heathen singing of any of his gods would have gone on to describe the form and features of the god or goddess who <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_j/continual_sunshine.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/december_the_ninth_national_blessedness.htm">December the Ninth National Blessedness</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound." --PSALM lxxxix. 1-18. Blessed is the people who love the sound of the silver trumpet which calls to holy convocation! Blessed is the people who are sacredly impatient for the hour of holy communion! Blessed is the people "in whose heart are the highways to Zion." And in what shall their blessedness consist? In illumination. "They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of Thy countenance." The favour of the Lord shall shine upon them when they walk <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/december_the_ninth_national_blessedness.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Jowett—</span><span class="citation2">My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/september_the_sixteenth_the_steadfastness.htm">September the Sixteenth the Steadfastness of the Lord</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"My covenant shall stand fast." --PSALM lxxxix. 19-29. Such a divine assurance ought to make me perfectly quiet in spirit. Restlessness in a Christian always spells disloyalty. The uncertainty is born of suspicion. There is a rift in the faith, and the disturbing breath of the devil blows through, and destroys my peace. If I am sure of my great Ally, my heart will not be troubled, neither will it be afraid. And such a divine assurance ought to make me bold in will and majestic in labour. I ought <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/jowett/my_daily_meditation_for_the_circling_year/september_the_sixteenth_the_steadfastness.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Henry Jowett—</span><span class="citation2">My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_1_1855/the_peoples_christ.htm">The People's Christ</a><br></span><span class="snippet">We do not believe that Israel or Judah ever had a better ruler than David; and we are bold to affirm that the reign of the man "chosen out of the people" outshines in glory the reigns of high-bred emperors, and princes with the blood of a score of kings running in their veins. Yea, more, we will assert that the humility of his birth and education, so far from making him incompetent to rule, rendered him, in a great degree, more fit for his office, and able to discharge its mighty duties. He could <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_1_1855/the_peoples_christ.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 1: 1855</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/taylor/separation_and_service/part_ii_the_blessing_of.htm">The Blessing of God. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">NUMB. VI. 22-27. We have already seen the grace of GOD making provision that His people, who had lost the privilege of priestly service, might draw near to Him by Nazarite separation and consecration. And not as the offence was the free gift: those who had forfeited the privilege of priestly service were the males only, but women and even children might be Nazarites; whosoever desired was free to come, and thus draw near to GOD. We now come to the concluding verses of Numb. vi, and see in them one <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/taylor/separation_and_service/part_ii_the_blessing_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">James Hudson Taylor—</span><span class="citation2">Separation and Service</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gaebelein/the_lord_of_glory/a_vision_of_the_king.htm">A vision of the King. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">ONE of the most blessed occupations for the believer is the prayerful searching of God's holy Word to discover there new glories and fresh beauties of Him, who is altogether lovely. Shall we ever find out all which the written Word reveals of Himself and His worthiness? This wonderful theme can never be exhausted. The heart which is devoted to Him and longs through the presence and indwelling of the Holy Spirit to be closer to the Lord, to hear and know more of Himself, will always find something <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/gaebelein/the_lord_of_glory/a_vision_of_the_king.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Arno Gaebelein—</span><span class="citation2">The Lord of Glory</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on_christian_doctrine_in_four_books_/the_city_of_god_index.htm">The City of God. Index of Subjects. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Abel, the relation of, to Christ, [1]299. See Cain. Abraham, the era in the life of, from which a new succession begins, [2]318; time of the migration of, [3]319, etc.; the order and nature of God's promises to, [4]320, etc.; the three great kingdoms existing at the time of the birth of, [5]321; the repeated promises of the land of Canaan made to, and to his seed, [6]321; his denial of his wife in Egypt, [7]322; the parting of Lot and, [8]322; the third promise of the land to, [9]322; his victory <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on_christian_doctrine_in_four_books_/the_city_of_god_index.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">St. Augustine—</span><span class="citation2">On Christian Doctrine In Four Books. </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/systematic_theology/lecture_ix_unity_of_moral.htm">Unity of Moral Action. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">CAN OBEDIENCE TO MORAL LAW BE PARTIAL? 1. What constitutes obedience to moral law? We have seen in former lectures, that disinterested benevolence is all that the spirit of moral law requires; that is, that the love which it requires to God and our neighbor is good-willing, willing the highest good or well-being of God, and of being in general, as an end, or for its own sake; that this willing is a consecration of all the powers, so far as they are under the control of the will, to this end. Entire <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/finney/systematic_theology/lecture_ix_unity_of_moral.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Grandison Finney—</span><span class="citation2">Systematic Theology</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/the_confessions_and_letters_of_st/letter_lv_replies_to_questions.htm">Letter Lv. Replies to Questions of Januarius. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Or Book II. of Replies to Questions of Januarius. (a.d. 400.) Chap. I. 1. Having read the letter in which you have put me in mind of my obligation to give answers to the remainder of those questions which you submitted to me a long time ago, I cannot bear to defer any longer the gratification of that desire for instruction which it gives me so much pleasure and comfort to see in you; and although encompassed by an accumulation of engagements, I have given the first place to the work of supplying <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/the_confessions_and_letters_of_st/letter_lv_replies_to_questions.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">St. Augustine—</span><span class="citation2">The Confessions and Letters of St</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/the_promised_king_and_temple-builder.htm">The Promised King and Temple-Builder</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying, 5. Go and tell My servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build Me an house for Me to dwell in! 6. Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. 7. In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/the_promised_king_and_temple-builder.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_iii_he_is_the.htm">"He is the Rock, his Work is Perfect. For all his Ways are Judgment. A God of Truth, and Without Iniquity, Just and Right is He. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Deut. xxxii. 4, 5.--"He is the rock, his work is perfect. For all his ways are judgment. A God of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is he. They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children. They are a perverse and crooked generation." "All his ways are judgment," both the ways of his commandments and the ways of his providence, both his word which he hath given as a lantern to men's paths, and his works among men. And this were the blessedness of men, to be found <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_iii_he_is_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. 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