chapter_Psalm_89
Psalm 89:1: An instruction, by Ethan the Ezrahite. Of the kind acts of Jehovah, to the age I sing, To all generations I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth, Psalm 89:2: For I said, 'To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.' Psalm 89:3: I have made a covenant for My chosen, I have sworn to David My servant: Psalm 89:4: 'Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah. Psalm 89:5: and the heavens confess Thy wonders, O Jehovah, Thy faithfulness also is in an assembly of holy ones. Psalm 89:6: For who in the sky, Compareth himself to Jehovah? Is like to Jehovah among sons of the mighty? Psalm 89:7: God is very terrible, In the secret counsel of His holy ones, And fearful over all surrounding Him. Psalm 89:8: O Jehovah, God of Hosts, Who is like Thee &#8212; a strong Jah? And Thy faithfulness is round about Thee. Psalm 89:9: Thou art ruler over the pride of the sea, In the lifting up of its billows Thou dost restrain them. Psalm 89:10: Thou hast bruised Rahab, as one wounded. With the arm of Thy strength Thou hast scattered Thine enemies. Psalm 89:11: Thine are the heavens &#8212; the earth also is Thine, The habitable world and its fulness, Thou hast founded them. Psalm 89:12: North and south Thou hast appointed them, Tabor and Hermon in Thy name do sing. Psalm 89:13: Thou hast an arm with might, Strong is Thy hand &#8212; high Thy right hand. Psalm 89:14: Righteousness and judgment Are the fixed place of Thy throne, Kindness and truth go before Thy face. Psalm 89:15: O the happiness of the people knowing the shout, O Jehovah, in the light of Thy face they walk habitually. Psalm 89:16: In Thy name they rejoice all the day, And in Thy righteousness they are exalted, Psalm 89:17: For the beauty of their strength art Thou, And in Thy good will is our horn exalted, Psalm 89:18: For of Jehovah is our shield, And of the Holy One of Israel our king. Psalm 89:19: Then Thou hast spoken in vision, To Thy saint, yea, Thou sayest, I have placed help upon a mighty one, Exalted a chosen one out of the people, Psalm 89:20: I have found David My servant, With My holy oil I have anointed him. Psalm 89:21: With whom My hand is established, My arm also doth strengthen him. Psalm 89:22: An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not. Psalm 89:23: And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague, Psalm 89:24: And My faithfulness and kindness are with him, And in My name is his horn exalted. Psalm 89:25: And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand. Psalm 89:26: He proclaimeth me: 'Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.' Psalm 89:27: I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth. Psalm 89:28: To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant is stedfast with him. Psalm 89:29: And I have set his seed for ever, And his throne as the days of the heavens. Psalm 89:30: If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk; Psalm 89:31: If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep, Psalm 89:32: I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity, Psalm 89:33: And My kindness I break not from him, Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness. Psalm 89:34: I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not. Psalm 89:35: Once I have sworn by My holiness, I lie not to David, Psalm 89:36: His seed is to the age, And his throne is as the sun before Me, Psalm 89:37: As the moon it is established &#8212; to the age, And the witness in the sky is stedfast. Selah. Psalm 89:38: And Thou, Thou hast cast off, and dost reject, Thou hast shown Thyself wroth With Thine anointed, Psalm 89:39: Hast rejected the covenant of Thy servant, Thou hast polluted to the earth his crown, Psalm 89:40: Thou hast broken down all his hedges, Thou hast made his fenced places a ruin. Psalm 89:41: Spoiled him have all passing by the way, He hath been a reproach to his neighbours, Psalm 89:42: Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries, Thou hast caused all his enemies to rejoice. Psalm 89:43: Also &#8212; Thou turnest back the sharpness of his sword, And hast not established him in battle, Psalm 89:44: Hast caused him to cease from his brightness, And his throne to the earth hast cast down. Psalm 89:45: Thou hast shortened the days of his youth, Hast covered him over with shame. Selah. Psalm 89:46: Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire? Psalm 89:47: Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men? Psalm 89:48: Who is the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah. Psalm 89:49: Where are Thy former kindnesses, O Lord. Thou hast sworn to David in Thy faithfulness, Psalm 89:50: Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Thy servants, I have borne in my bosom all the strivings of the peoples, Psalm 89:51: Wherewith Thine enemies reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached The steps of Thine anointed. Psalm 89:52: Blessed is Jehovah to the age. Amen, and amen!
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