Chapter 89

   Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah for ever: With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.  

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  For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.  

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  I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant:  

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  Thy seed will I establish for ever, And build up thy throne to all generations. Selah  

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  And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah; Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.  

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  For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Jehovah,  

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  A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, And to be feared above all them that are round about him?  

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  O Jehovah God of hosts, Who is a mighty one, like unto thee, O Jehovah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.  

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  Thou rulest the pride of the sea: When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.  

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  Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.  

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  The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.  

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  The north and the south, thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.  

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  Thou hast a mighty arm; Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.  

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  Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne: Lovingkindness and truth go before thy face.  

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  Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.  

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  In thy name do they rejoice all the day; And in thy righteousness are they exalted.  

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  For thou art the glory of their strength; And in thy favor our horn shall be exalted.  

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  For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah; And our king to the Holy One of Israel.  

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  Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints, And saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.  

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  I have found David my servant; With my holy oil have I anointed him:  

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  With whom my hand shall be established; Mine arm also shall strengthen him.  

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  The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.  

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  And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And smite them that hate him.  

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  But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be with him; And in my name shall his horn 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 shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.  

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  I also will make him [my] first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth.  

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  My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him.  

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  His seed also will I make to endure for ever, And his throne as the days of heaven.  

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  If his children forsake my law, And walk not in mine ordinances;  

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  If they break my statutes, And keep not my commandments;  

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  Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes.  

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  But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.  

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  My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.  

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  Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David:  

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  His seed shall endure for ever, And his throne as the sun before me.  

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  It shall be established for ever as the moon, And [as] the faithful witness in the sky. Selah  

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  But thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.  

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  Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground.  

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  Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.  

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  All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors.  

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  Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries; Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.  

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  Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast not made him to stand in the battle.  

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  Thou hast made his brightness to cease, And cast his throne down to the ground.  

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  The days of his youth hast thou shortened: Thou hast covered him with shame. Selah  

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  How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? [How long] shall thy wrath burn like fire?  

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  Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!  

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  What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah  

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  Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?  

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  Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty peoples,  

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  Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.  

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  Blessed be Jehovah for evermore. Amen, and Amen. BOOK IV Psalm 90 A Prayer of Moses the man of God.  

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