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The Book of Psalms
Chapter 89
American Standard VersionPs 89:1 | I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah for ever: With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. |
Ps 89:2 | For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens. |
Ps 89:3 | I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant: |
Ps 89:4 | Thy seed will I establish for ever, And build up thy throne to all generations. Selah |
Ps 89:5 | And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah; Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. |
Ps 89:6 | For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Jehovah, |
Ps 89:7 | A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, And to be feared above all them that are round about him? |
Ps 89:8 | O Jehovah God of hosts, Who is a mighty one, like unto thee, O Jehovah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee. |
Ps 89:9 | Thou rulest the pride of the sea: When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. |
Ps 89:10 | Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength. |
Ps 89:11 | The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. |
Ps 89:12 | The north and the south, thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name. |
Ps 89:13 | Thou hast a mighty arm; Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. |
Ps 89:14 | Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne: Lovingkindness and truth go before thy face. |
Ps 89:15 | Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance. |
Ps 89:16 | In thy name do they rejoice all the day; And in thy righteousness are they exalted. |
Ps 89:17 | For thou art the glory of their strength; And in thy favor our horn shall be exalted. |
Ps 89:18 | For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah; And our king to the Holy One of Israel. |
Ps 89:19 | Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints, And saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. |
Ps 89:20 | I have found David my servant; With my holy oil have I anointed him: |
Ps 89:21 | With whom my hand shall be established; Mine arm also shall strengthen him. |
Ps 89:22 | The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him. |
Ps 89:23 | And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And smite them that hate him. |
Ps 89:24 | But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be with him; And in my name shall his horn be exalted. |
Ps 89:25 | I will set his hand also on the sea, And his right hand on the rivers. |
Ps 89:26 | He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation. |
Ps 89:27 | I also will make him my first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth. |
Ps 89:28 | My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him. |
Ps 89:29 | His seed also will I make to endure for ever, And his throne as the days of heaven. |
Ps 89:30 | If his children forsake my law, And walk not in mine ordinances; |
Ps 89:31 | If they break my statutes, And keep not my commandments; |
Ps 89:32 | Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes. |
Ps 89:33 | But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. |
Ps 89:34 | My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. |
Ps 89:35 | Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: |
Ps 89:36 | His seed shall endure for ever, And his throne as the sun before me. |
Ps 89:37 | It shall be established for ever as the moon, And as the faithful witness in the sky. Selah |
Ps 89:38 | But thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. |
Ps 89:39 | Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. |
Ps 89:40 | Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin. |
Ps 89:41 | All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors. |
Ps 89:42 | Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries; Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. |
Ps 89:43 | Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast not made him to stand in the battle. |
Ps 89:44 | Thou hast made his brightness to cease, And cast his throne down to the ground. |
Ps 89:45 | The days of his youth hast thou shortened: Thou hast covered him with shame. Selah |
Ps 89:46 | How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? How long shall thy wrath burn like fire? |
Ps 89:47 | Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men! |
Ps 89:48 | What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah |
Ps 89:49 | Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness? |
Ps 89:50 | Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty peoples, |
Ps 89:51 | Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. |
Ps 89:52 | Blessed be Jehovah for evermore. Amen, and Amen. A Prayer of Moses the man of God. |