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A 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.
Psalms 89:1 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
  • BSB A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.
  • NKJV I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever; With my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness to all generations.
  • NASB I will sing of the graciousness of the Lord forever; To all generations I will make Your faithfulness known with my mouth.
  • NLT I will sing of the Lord’s unfailing love forever! Young and old will hear of your faithfulness.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Ps 101:1A Psalm by David. I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
  • Ps 89:8Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
  • Ps 119:90Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.
  • Lam 3:23They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
  • Ps 89:33But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
  • Ps 36:5Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
  • Ps 89:4–5‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah.
  • Ps 92:2to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,
  • Ps 89:24But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.
  • Titus 1:2in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
  • Ps 86:12–13I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forever more.
  • Ps 88:11Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
  • Ps 59:16But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.
  • Ps 89:49Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
  • Ps 106:1Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
  • Ps 71:8My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all day long.
  • Isa 25:1Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.
  • Ps 71:15–19My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
  • Ps 40:9–10I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
  • Mic 7:20You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
  • Ps 136:1–26Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.
  • 1 Kgs 4:31For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around.
  • 1 Chr 2:6The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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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.

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