| 89:1
| I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I
make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
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| 89:2
| For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness
shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
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| 89:3
| I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my
servant,
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| 89:4
| Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all
generations. Selah.
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| 89:5
| And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also
in the congregation of the saints.
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| 89:6
| For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons
of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
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| 89:7
| 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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| 89:8
| O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy
faithfulness round about thee?
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| 89:9
| Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou
stillest them.
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| 89:10
| Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast
scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
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| 89:11
| The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the
fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
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| 89:12
| The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall
rejoice in thy name.
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| 89:13
| Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
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| 89:14
| Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth
shall go before thy face.
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| 89:15
| Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O
LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
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| 89:16
| In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness
shall they be exalted.
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| 89:17
| For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn
shall be exalted.
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| 89:18
| For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
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| 89:19
| Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid
help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
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| 89:20
| I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
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| 89:21
| With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen
him.
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| 89:22
| The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict
him.
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| 89:23
| And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate
him.
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| 89:24
| But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall
his horn be exalted.
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| 89:25
| I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
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| 89:26
| He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my
salvation.
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| 89:27
| Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
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| 89:28
| My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand
fast with him.
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| 89:29
| His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days
of heaven.
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| 89:30
| If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
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| 89:31
| If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
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| 89:32
| Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity
with stripes.
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| 89:33
| Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor
suffer my faithfulness to fail.
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| 89:34
| My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my
lips.
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| 89:35
| Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
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| 89:36
| His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
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| 89:37
| It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness
in heaven. Selah.
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| 89:38
| But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine
anointed.
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| 89:39
| Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his
crown by casting it to the ground.
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| 89:40
| Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds
to ruin.
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| 89:41
| All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
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| 89:42
| Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all
his enemies to rejoice.
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| 89:43
| Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to
stand in the battle.
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| 89:44
| Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the
ground.
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| 89:45
| The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with
shame. Selah.
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| 89:46
| How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn
like fire?
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| 89:47
| Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
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| 89:48
| What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver
his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
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| 89:49
| Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto
David in thy truth?
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| 89:50
| Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom
the reproach of all the mighty people;
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| 89:51
| Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have
reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
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| 89:52
| Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
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