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I Will Sing of the Steadfast Love of the Lord

A Maskila of Ethan the Ezrahite.

I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord, forever;
with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

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I Will Sing of His Love Forever

{An instruction. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.} I will sing of the loving-kindness of Jehovah for ever; with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness from generation to generation.

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For I said, “Steadfast love will be built up forever;
in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness.”

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For I said, Loving-kindness shall be built up for ever; in the very heavens wilt thou establish thy faithfulness.

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You have said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one;
I have sworn to David my servant:

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I have made a covenant with mine elect, I have sworn unto David my servant:

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‘I will establish your offspring forever,
and build your throne for all generations.’” Selah

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Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne from generation to generation. Selah.

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Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Lord,
your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!

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And the heavens shall celebrate thy wonders, O Jehovah, and thy faithfulness in the congregation of the saints.

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For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord?
Who among the heavenly beingsb is like the Lord,

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For who in the heaven can be compared to Jehovah? [who] among the sons of the mighty shall be likened to Jehovah?

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a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones,
and awesome above all who are around him?

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God is greatly to be feared in the council of the saints, and terrible for all that are round about him.

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O Lord God of hosts,
who is mighty as you are, O Lord,
with your faithfulness all around you?

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Jehovah, God of hosts, who is like unto thee, the strong Jah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee.

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You rule the raging of the sea;
when its waves rise, you still them.

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*Thou* rulest the pride of the sea: when its waves arise, *thou* stillest them.

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You crushed Rahab like a carcass;
you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

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Thou hast crushed Rahab as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.

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The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours;
the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.

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Thine are the heavens, the earth also is thine; the world and its fulness, *thou* hast founded them.

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The north and the south, you have created them;
Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.

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The north and the south, *thou* hast created them: Tabor and Hermon triumph in thy name.

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You have a mighty arm;
strong is your hand, high your right hand.

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Thine is the arm of might: strong is thy hand, high is thy right hand.

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Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

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Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of thy throne; loving-kindness and truth go before thy face.

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Blessed are the people who know the festal shout,
who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face,

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Blessed is the people that know the shout of joy: they walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.

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who exult in your name all the day
and in your righteousness are exalted.

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In thy name are they joyful all the day, and in thy righteousness are they exalted.

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For you are the glory of their strength;
by your favor our horn is exalted.

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For thou art the glory of their strength; and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

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For our shield belongs to the Lord,
our king to the Holy One of Israel.

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For Jehovah is our shield, and the Holy One of Israel, our king.

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Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one,c and said:
“I have granted help to one who is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

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Then thou spakest in vision of thy Holy One, and saidst, I have laid help upon a mighty one; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

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I have found David, my servant;
with my holy oil I have anointed him,

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I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

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so that my hand shall be established with him;
my arm also shall strengthen him.

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With whom my hand shall be established; and mine arm shall strengthen him.

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The enemy shall not outwit him;
the wicked shall not humble him.

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No enemy shall exact upon him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him;

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I will crush his foes before him
and strike down those who hate him.

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But I will beat down his adversaries before his face, and will smite them that hate him.

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My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him,
and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

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And my faithfulness and my loving-kindness shall be with him, and by my name shall his horn be exalted.

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I will set his hand on the sea
and his right hand on the rivers.

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And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in 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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*He* shall call unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation;

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And I will make him the firstborn,
the highest of the kings of the earth.

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And as to me, I will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

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My steadfast love I will keep for him forever,
and my covenant will stand firmd for him.

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My loving-kindness will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him;

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I will establish his offspring forever
and his throne as the days of the heavens.

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And I will establish his seed for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

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If his children forsake my law
and do not walk according to my rules,e

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If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in mine ordinances;

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if they violate my statutes
and do not keep my commandments,

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If they profane my statutes, and keep not my commandments:

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then I will punish their transgression with the rod
and their iniquity with stripes,

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Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

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but I will not remove from him my steadfast love
or be false to my faithfulness.

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Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor belie my faithfulness;

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I will not violate my covenant
or alter the word that went forth from my lips.

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My covenant will I not profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

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Once for all I have sworn by my holiness;
I will not lie to David.

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Once have I sworn by my holiness; I will not lie unto David:

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His offspring shall endure forever,
his throne as long as the sun before me.

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His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me;

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Like the moon it shall be established forever,
a faithful witness in the skies.” Selah

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It shall be established for ever as the moon, and the witness in the sky is firm. Selah.

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But now you have cast off and rejected;
you are full of wrath against your anointed.

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But thou hast rejected and cast off; thou hast been very wroth with thine anointed:

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You have renounced the covenant with your servant;
you have defiled his crown in the dust.

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Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant; thou hast profaned his crown to the ground:

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You have breached all his walls;
you have laid his strongholds in ruins.

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Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

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All who pass by plunder him;
he has become the scorn of his neighbors.

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All that pass by the way plunder him; he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

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You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
you have made all his enemies rejoice.

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Thou hast exalted the right hand of his oppressors; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice:

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You have also turned back the edge of his sword,
and you have not made him stand in battle.

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Yea, thou hast turned back the edge of his sword, and hast not made him stand in the battle.

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You have made his splendor to cease
and cast his throne to the ground.

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Thou hast made his brightness to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground;

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You have cut short the days of his youth;
you have covered him with shame. Selah

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The days of his youth hast thou shortened; thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.

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How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever?
How long will your wrath burn like fire?

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How long, Jehovah, wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy fury burn like fire?

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Remember how short my time is!
For what vanity you have created all the children of man!

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Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?

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What man can live and never see death?
Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

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What man liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

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Lord, where is your steadfast love of old,
which by your faithfulness you swore to David?

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Where, Lord, are thy former loving-kindnesses, [which] thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?

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Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked,
and how I bear in my heart the insultsf of all the many nations,

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Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants -- that I bear in my bosom [that of] all the mighty peoples --

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with which your enemies mock, O Lord,
with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.

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Wherewith thine enemies, O Jehovah, have reproached, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

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Blessed be the Lord forever!
Amen and Amen.

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Blessed be Jehovah for evermore! Amen, and Amen.

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Psalms 89

Psalms 89