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Psalms 89

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. ✦ 2I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.” ✦ 3“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant, ✦ 4‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah. ✦ 5The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh; your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. ✦ 6For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh, ✦ 7a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him? ✦ 8Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you. ✦ 9You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them. ✦ 10You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. ✦ 11The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them. ✦ 12The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name. ✦ 13You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted. ✦ 14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face. ✦ 15Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh. ✦ 16In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted. ✦ 17For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted. ✦ 18For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of Israel. ✦ 19Then 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. ✦ 20I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil, ✦ 21with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him. ✦ 22No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him. ✦ 23I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him. ✦ 24But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted. ✦ 25I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers. ✦ 26He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’ ✦ 27I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. ✦ 28I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him. ✦ 29I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. ✦ 30If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances; ✦ 31if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments; ✦ 32then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. ✦ 33But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail. ✦ 34I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered. ✦ 35Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David. ✦ 36His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me. ✦ 37It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah. ✦ 38But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed. ✦ 39You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust. ✦ 40You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin. ✦ 41All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors. ✦ 42You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice. ✦ 43Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle. ✦ 44You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground. ✦ 45You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah. ✦ 46How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire? ✦ 47Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men! ✦ 48What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah. ✦ 49Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness? ✦ 50Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples, ✦ 51With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one. ✦ 52Blessed be Yahweh forever more. Amen, and Amen. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 89 ·412 Sam 7 ·16Ps 132 ·8Luke 1 ·81 Kgs 11 ·8Ps 44 ·8Ps 71 ·7Ps 72 ·7

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 89 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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