Psalm 89

1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations.
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2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: your faithfulness shall you establish in the very heavens.
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3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant,
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4 Your seed will I establish for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah.
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5 And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O LORD: your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
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6 For who in the heaven can be compared to the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the LORD?
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7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
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8 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like to you? or to your faithfulness round about you?
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9 You rule the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, you still them.
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10 You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; you have scattered your enemies with your strong arm.
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11 The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours: as for the world and the fullness thereof, you have founded them.
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12 The north and the south you have created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in your name.
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13 You have a mighty arm: strong is your hand, and high is your right hand.
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14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face.
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15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance.
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16 In your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted.
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17 For you are the glory of their strength: and in your favor our horn shall be exalted.
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18 For the LORD is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
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19 Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help on one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
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20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
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21 With whom my hand shall be established: my arm also shall strengthen him.
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22 The enemy shall not exact on him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
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23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
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24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
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25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in 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 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
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28 My mercy will I keep for him for ever more, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
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29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
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30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
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31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
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32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
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33 Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
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34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
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35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David.
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36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
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37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
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38 But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been wroth with your anointed.
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39 You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
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40 You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strong holds to ruin.
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41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbors.
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42 You have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice.
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43 You have also turned the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.
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44 You have made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
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45 The days of his youth have you shortened: you have covered him with shame. Selah.
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46 How long, LORD? will you hide yourself for ever? shall your wrath burn like fire?
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47 Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?
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48 What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
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49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth?
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50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
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51 With which your enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.
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52 Blessed be the LORD for ever more. Amen, and Amen.
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