church-notes/references/Bible/19 - Psalms/Psalms89.md

# Psalm 89 A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. 
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1. I will sing of the steadfast love of the LORD, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. 
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2. For I said, “Steadfast love will be built up forever; in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness.” 
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3. You have said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant: 
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4. ‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.’” Selah 
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5. Let the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones! 
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6. For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD, 
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7. a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him? 
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8. O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O LORD, with your faithfulness all around you? 
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9. You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them. 
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10. You crushed Rahab like a carcass; you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. 
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11. The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it, you have founded them. 
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12. The north and the south, you have created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name. 
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13. You have a mighty arm; strong is your hand, high your right hand. 
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14. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you. 
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15. Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O LORD, in the light of your face, 
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16. who exult in your name all the day and in your righteousness are exalted. 
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17. For you are the glory of their strength; by your favor our horn is exalted. 
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18. For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel. 
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19. Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, and said: “I have granted help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people. 
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20. I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him, 
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21. so that my hand shall be established with him; my arm also shall strengthen him. 
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22. The enemy shall not outwit him; the wicked shall not humble him. 
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23. I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him. 
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24. My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted. 
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25. I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers. 
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26. He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’ 
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27. And I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. 
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28. My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him. 
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29. I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens. 
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30. If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules, 
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31. if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments, 
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32. then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes, 
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33. but I will not remove from him my steadfast love or be false to my faithfulness. 
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34. I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips. 
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35. Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David. 
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36. His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me. 
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37. Like the moon it shall be established forever, a faithful witness in the skies.” Selah 
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38. But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. 
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39. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. 
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40. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. 
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41. All who pass by plunder him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors. 
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42. You have exalted the right hand of his foes; you have made all his enemies rejoice. 
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43. You have also turned back the edge of his sword, and you have not made him stand in battle. 
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44. You have made his splendor to cease and cast his throne to the ground. 
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45. You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah 
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46. How long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire? 
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47. Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man! 
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48. What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah 
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49. Lord, where is your steadfast love of old, which by your faithfulness you swore to David? 
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50. Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations, 
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51. with which your enemies mock, O LORD, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed. 
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52. Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and Amen. 

(ESV)