Psalm 89
World English Bible Protestant Edition, 2020 stable text
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I will sing of the loving kindness of the LORD forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
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I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”
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“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,
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‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’ ” Selah.
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The heavens will praise your wonders, LORD, your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
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For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like the LORD,
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a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?
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You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.
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You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
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The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours, the world and its fullness. You have founded them.
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You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
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You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
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Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
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Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, LORD.
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In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.
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For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.
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For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
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Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.
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I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,
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with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.
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No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.
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I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.
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But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.
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I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.
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He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
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I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
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I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.
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I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
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If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
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if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;
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then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
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But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
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I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
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Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.
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His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.
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It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.
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But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.
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You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
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You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.