Verse 4
Psalms 89:4
Literal Standard Version
4
“Even for all time I establish your seed, || And have built your throne to generation and generation.” Selah.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כָּרַ֣תִּֽי בְ֭רִית לִ/בְחִירִ֑/י נִ֝שְׁבַּ֗עְתִּי לְ/דָוִ֥ד עַבְדִּֽ/י
English Translation
I made a covenant with my chosen; I swore to David my servant.
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Chapter 89 Context
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AN INSTRUCTION OF ETHAN THE EZRAHITE. Of the kind acts of YHWH, I sing for all time, || From generat...
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For I said, “Kindness is built for all time, || The heavens! You establish Your faithfulness in them...
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I have made a covenant for My chosen, || I have sworn to My servant David:
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“Even for all time I establish your seed, || And have built your throne to generation and generation...
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And the heavens confess Your wonders, O YHWH, || Your faithfulness is also in an assembly of holy on...
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For who in the sky, compares himself to YHWH? Who is like to YHWH among sons of the mighty?
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God (Elohim) is very terrible, || In the secret counsel of His holy ones, || And fearful over all su...
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O YHWH, God (Elohim) of Hosts, || Who is like You—a strong YAH? And Your faithfulness is around You.
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You are ruler over the pride of the sea, || In the lifting up of its billows You restrain them.
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You have bruised Rahab, as one wounded. You have scattered Your enemies with the arm of Your strengt...
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The heavens are Yours, || The earth is also Yours, || The habitable world and its fullness, || You h...
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North and south You have appointed them, || Tabor and Hermon sing in Your Name.
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You have an arm with might, || Strong is Your hand—high Your right hand.
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Righteousness and judgment || Are the fixed place of Your throne, || Kindness and truth go before Yo...
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O the blessedness of the people knowing the shout, || O YHWH, they habitually walk in the light of Y...
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They rejoice in Your Name all the day, || And they are exalted in Your righteousness,
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For You are the beauty of their strength, || And in Your good will is our horn exalted,
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For our shield is of YHWH, || And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
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Then You have spoken in vision, || To Your saint, indeed, || You say, I have placed help on a mighty...
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I have found My servant David, || With My holy oil I have anointed him.
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With whom My hand is established, || My arm also strengthens him.
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An enemy does not exact on him, || And a son of perverseness does not afflict him.
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And I have beaten down his adversaries before him, || And I plague those hating him,
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And My faithfulness and kindness are with him, || And in My Name is his horn exalted.
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And I have set his hand on the sea, || And his right hand on the rivers.
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He proclaims to Me: “You are my Father, || My God (Elohim), and the rock of my salvation.”
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I also appoint him firstborn, || Highest of the kings of the earth.
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For all time I keep for him My kindness, || And My covenant is steadfast with him.
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And I have set his seed forever, || And his throne as the days of the heavens.
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If his sons forsake My law, || And do not walk in My judgments;
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If they defile My statutes, || And do not keep My commands,
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I have looked after their transgression with a rod, || And their iniquity with strokes,
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And I do not break My kindness from him, || Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness.
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I do not profane My covenant, || And I do not change that which is going forth from My lips.
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Once I have sworn by My holiness, || I do not lie to David,
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His seed is for all time, || And his throne is as the sun before Me,
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It is established as the moon for all time, || And the witness in the sky is steadfast. Selah.
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And You, You have cast off, and reject, || You have shown Yourself angry with Your anointed,
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Have rejected the covenant of Your servant, || You have defiled his crown to the earth,
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You have broken down all his hedges, || You have made his fortifications a ruin.
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Everyone passing by the way has spoiled him, || He has been a reproach to his neighbors,
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You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries, || You have caused all his enemies to rejoice.
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Also—You turn back the sharpness of his sword, || And have not established him in battle,
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Have caused him to cease from his brightness, || And have cast down his throne to the earth.
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You have shortened the days of his youth, || Have covered him over with shame. Selah.
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Until when, O YHWH, are You hidden? Does Your fury burn as fire forever?
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Remember how short my lifetime is. Why have You created in vain || All the sons of men?
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Who is the man that lives, and does not see death? He delivers his soul from the hand of Sheol. Sela...
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Where are Your former kindnesses, O Lord, || Which You have sworn to David in Your faithfulness?
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Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, || I have borne in my bosom all the strivings of th...
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With which Your enemies reproached, O YHWH, || With which they have reproached || The steps of Your...
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Blessed is YHWH for all time. Amen and amen!
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