Psalms:89

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

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