Ps 89
0 Psalm 89 Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
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I will sing of the lovingkindness of YHWH for ever: With my mouth will I make known
your faithfulness to all generations.
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For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Your faithfulness will you establish
in the very heavens.
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I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant:
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Your seed will I establish for ever, And build up your throne to all generations.
Selah
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And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O YHWH; Your faithfulness also in the assembly
of the holy ones.
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For who in the skies can be compared to YHWH? Who among the sons of the mighty is
like to YHWH,
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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 YHWH God of hosts, Who is a mighty one, like to you, O YHWH? And your faithfulness
is round about you.
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You rule the pride of the sea: When its waves arise, you still them.
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You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; You have scattered your enemies
with the arm of your strength.
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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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The north and the south, you have created them: Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
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You have a mighty arm; Strong is your hand, and high is your right hand.
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Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne: Lovingkindness
and truth go before your face.
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Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They walk, O YHWH, in the light
of your countenance.
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In your name do they rejoice all the day; And in your righteousness are they exalted.
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For you are the glory of their strength; And in your favor our horn shall be exalted.
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For our shield belongs to YHWH; And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
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Then you spoke in vision to your saints, And said, 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 to me, You are 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 to 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 you have cast off and rejected, You have been wroth with your anointed.
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You have abhorred the covenant of your servant: You have profaned his crown [by casting
it] to the ground.
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You have broken down all his hedges; You have 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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You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; You have made all his enemies
to rejoice.
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Yea, you turn back the edge of his sword, And have not made him to stand in the battle.
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You have made his brightness to cease, And cast his throne down to the ground.
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The days of his youth have you shortened: You have covered him with shame. Selah
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How long, O YHWH? will you hide yourself for ever? [How long] shall your anger burn
like fire?
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Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity have you created all the children
of men!
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What man is he who shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from
the power of Sheol? Selah
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Lord, where are your former lovingkindnesses, Which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
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Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; How I do bear in my bosom [the reproach
of] all the mighty peoples,
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Wherewith your enemies have reproached, O YHWH, Wherewith they have reproached the
footsteps of your anointed.
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Blessed be YHWH for evermore. Amen, and Amen. BOOK IV