Psalms 89

1A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.Cross-references: 1Ki 4:31 · 1Chr 2:6 · Ps 36:5 · Ps 40:9 · Ps 59:16 · Ps 71:8 · +17 more

2I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”Cross-references: Num 23:19 · Neh 1:5 · Neh 9:17 · Neh 9:31 · Ps 36:5 · Ps 42:1 · +9 more

3“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,Cross-references: 2Sam 3:9 · 2Sam 7:10 · 2Sam 23:5 · 1Ki 8:16 · Ps 78:70 · Ps 89:19 · +15 more

4‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:12 · 2Sam 7:29 · 1Ki 9:5 · 1Chr 17:10 · 1Chr 22:10 · Ps 72:17 · +13 more

5The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh, your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.Cross-references: Deut 33:2 · Job 5:1 · Ps 19:1 · Ps 50:6 · Ps 89:7 · Ps 97:6 · +11 more

6For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,Cross-references: Ex 15:11 · Ps 29:1 · Ps 40:5 · Ps 52:1 · Ps 71:19 · Ps 73:25 · +4 more

7a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?Cross-references: Lev 10:3 · Ps 47:2 · Ps 76:7 · Isa 6:2 · Isa 66:2 · Jer 10:7 · +6 more

8Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.Cross-references: Deut 32:31 · Josh 22:22 · 1Sam 2:2 · 1Sam 15:19 · Job 9:19 · Ps 24:8 · +10 more

9You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.Cross-references: Job 38:8 · Ps 29:10 · Ps 65:7 · Ps 66:5 · Ps 93:3 · Ps 107:25 · +5 more

10You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.Cross-references: Ex 3:19 · Ex 7:1 · Deut 4:34 · Ps 59:11 · Ps 68:1 · Ps 68:30 · +5 more

11The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours, the world and its fullness. You have founded them.Cross-references: Gen 1:1 · Gen 2:1 · 1Chr 29:11 · Job 41:11 · Ps 24:1 · Ps 50:12 · +3 more

12You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.Cross-references: Deut 3:8 · Josh 12:1 · Josh 19:22 · Judg 4:6 · Judg 4:12 · Job 26:7 · +7 more

13You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.Cross-references: Ps 62:11 · Ps 89:10 · Dan 4:34 · Matt 6:13

14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.Cross-references: Deut 32:4 · Ps 45:6 · Ps 85:13 · Ps 89:2 · Ps 97:2 · Ps 99:4 · +4 more

15Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.Cross-references: Lev 25:9 · Num 6:26 · Num 10:10 · Num 23:21 · Job 29:3 · Ps 4:6 · +14 more

16In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.Cross-references: Ps 29:5 · Ps 29:7 · Ps 33:21 · Ps 40:10 · Ps 44:8 · Ps 71:15 · +11 more

17For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:1 · 1Sam 2:10 · Ps 28:7 · Ps 75:10 · Ps 89:24 · Ps 92:10 · +6 more

18For our shield belongs to Yahweh, our king to the Holy One of Israel.Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Deut 33:27 · Ps 44:4 · Ps 47:9 · Ps 62:1 · Ps 62:6 · +10 more

19Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.Cross-references: 1Sam 16:1 · 1Sam 16:18 · 2Sam 7:8 · 2Sam 17:10 · 1Ki 11:34 · Ps 42:3 · +10 more

20I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,Cross-references: 1Sam 16:1 · 1Sam 16:12 · Isa 61:1 · John 3:34 · Acts 13:22

21with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:8 · Ps 18:32 · Ps 80:15 · Ps 89:13 · Isa 41:10 · Isa 42:1 · +3 more

22No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:10 · 1Chr 17:9 · Matt 4:1 · John 17:12 · 2Thess 2:3

23I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.Cross-references: 2Sam 3:1 · 2Sam 7:1 · 2Sam 7:9 · 2Sam 22:40 · Ps 2:1 · Ps 18:40 · +6 more

24But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:1 · Ps 20:1 · Ps 20:5 · Ps 61:7 · Ps 89:2 · Ps 89:16 · +8 more

25I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.Cross-references: 1Ki 4:21 · Ps 2:8 · Ps 72:8 · Ps 80:11 · Rev 11:15

26He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’Cross-references: 2Sam 7:14 · 2Sam 22:47 · 1Chr 22:10 · Ps 18:46 · Ps 43:4 · Ps 62:2 · +10 more

27I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.Cross-references: Ex 4:22 · Num 24:7 · 2Chr 1:12 · 2Chr 9:23 · Ps 2:7 · Ps 2:10 · +7 more

28I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:15 · 2Sam 23:5 · Ps 89:33 · Ps 111:5 · Ps 111:9 · Isa 54:10 · +3 more

29I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.Cross-references: Deut 11:21 · 1Chr 17:11 · 1Chr 22:10 · Ps 21:4 · Ps 45:6 · Ps 89:4 · +8 more

30If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;Cross-references: 2Sam 7:14 · 1Chr 28:9 · 2Chr 7:17 · Ps 119:53 · Ps 132:12 · Prov 4:2 · +6 more

31if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;Cross-references: Ps 55:20

32then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.Cross-references: Ex 32:34 · 2Sam 7:14 · 1Ki 11:6 · 1Ki 11:14 · 1Ki 11:31 · 1Ki 11:39 · +5 more

33But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.Cross-references: 1Sam 15:29 · 2Sam 7:13 · 2Sam 7:15 · 1Ki 11:13 · 1Ki 11:32 · 1Ki 11:36 · +6 more

34I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.Cross-references: Lev 26:44 · Num 23:19 · Jer 14:21 · Jer 33:20 · Mal 3:6 · Matt 24:35 · +2 more

35Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.Cross-references: Ps 110:4 · Ps 132:11 · Amos 4:2 · Amos 8:7 · 2Thess 2:13 · Titus 1:2 · +2 more

36His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.Cross-references: 2Sam 7:16 · Ps 72:5 · Ps 72:17 · Ps 89:4 · Ps 89:29 · Isa 9:7 · +5 more

37It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.Cross-references: Gen 1:14 · Gen 9:13 · Ps 72:7 · Ps 104:19 · Isa 54:9 · Jer 31:35

38But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.Cross-references: Deut 32:19 · 2Sam 1:21 · 2Sam 15:26 · 1Chr 28:9 · 2Chr 12:1 · Ps 44:9 · +13 more

39You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.Cross-references: Ps 74:7 · Ps 77:10 · Ps 89:34 · Ps 89:44 · Ps 116:11 · Ps 143:3 · +4 more

40You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.Cross-references: 2Chr 12:2 · 2Chr 15:5 · Job 1:10 · Ps 80:12 · Isa 5:5 · Lam 2:2 · +2 more

41All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.Cross-references: Deut 28:37 · Neh 5:9 · Ps 44:10 · Ps 74:10 · Ps 79:4 · Ps 80:13 · +10 more

42You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.Cross-references: Lev 26:17 · Lev 26:25 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:43 · Ps 13:2 · Ps 80:6 · +3 more

43Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle.Cross-references: Lev 26:36 · Num 14:42 · Num 14:45 · Josh 7:4 · Josh 7:8 · 2Chr 25:8 · +2 more

44You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.Cross-references: 1Sam 4:21 · 1Ki 12:16 · 1Ki 14:25 · Ps 89:39 · Lam 4:1 · Dan 7:20 · +1 more

45You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.Cross-references: 2Chr 10:19 · Ps 44:15 · Ps 71:13 · Ps 89:28 · Ps 102:23 · Ps 109:29 · +2 more

46How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?Cross-references: Job 23:9 · Ps 10:1 · Ps 13:1 · Ps 78:63 · Ps 79:5 · Ps 85:5 · +9 more

47Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!Cross-references: Job 7:7 · Job 9:25 · Job 10:9 · Job 14:1 · Ps 39:5 · Ps 119:84 · +2 more

48What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.Cross-references: Job 30:23 · Ps 22:29 · Ps 49:7 · Ps 49:15 · Eccl 3:19 · Eccl 8:8 · +7 more

49Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?Cross-references: 2Sam 3:9 · 2Sam 7:15 · Ps 54:5 · Ps 77:9 · Ps 89:3 · Ps 89:35 · +4 more

50Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,Cross-references: Ps 44:13 · Ps 69:9 · Ps 69:19 · Ps 74:18 · Ps 74:22 · Ps 79:10 · +1 more

51With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.Cross-references: 2Sam 16:7 · Ps 56:5 · Ps 57:3 · Ps 74:10 · Matt 5:10 · Matt 12:24 · +9 more

52Blessed be Yahweh forever more. Amen, and Amen.Cross-references: Neh 9:5 · Ps 41:13 · Ps 72:18 · Ps 106:48 · Hab 3:17 · Matt 6:13 · +1 more