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         <div class="label">89</div><div class="s"><span class="heading">A skillful song, {or} a didactic {or} reflective poem, of Ethan the Ezrahite.</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.89.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content"> I WILL sing of the mercy </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> loving-kindness of the Lord forever; with my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness from generation to generation.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.89.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content"> For I have said, Mercy </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> loving-kindness shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness will You establish in the very heavens [unchangeable and perpetual].</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.89.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content"> [You have said] I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.89.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content"> Your Seed I will establish forever, and I will build up your throne for all generations. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! [Isa. 9:7; Luke 1:32, 33; Gal. 3:16]</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.89.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content"> Let heaven (the angels) praise Your wonders, O Lord, Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones (the holy angels).</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.89.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content"> For who in the heavens can be compared to the Lord? Who among the mighty [heavenly beings] can be likened to the Lord,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.89.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content"> A God greatly feared </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> revered in the council of the holy (angelic) ones, and to be feared </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> worshipfully revered above all those who are round about Him?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.89.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content"> O Lord God of hosts, who is a mighty one like unto You, O Lord? And Your faithfulness is round about You [an essential part of You at all times].</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.89.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content"> You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves arise, You still them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.89.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content"> You have broken Rahab (Egypt) in pieces; with Your mighty arm You have scattered Your enemies.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.89.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content"> The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; the world and all that is in it, You have founded them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.89.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content"> The north and the south, You have created them; Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon joyously praise Your name.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.89.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content"> You have a mighty arm; strong is Your hand, Your right hand is soaring high.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.89.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content"> Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; mercy </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> loving-kindness and truth go before Your face.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.89.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content"> Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are the people who know the joyful sound [who understand and appreciate the spiritual blessings symbolized by the feasts]; they walk, O Lord, in the light </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> favor of Your countenance!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.89.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content"> In Your name they rejoice all the day, and in Your righteousness they are exalted.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.89.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content"> For You are the glory of their strength [their proud adornment], and by Your favor our horn is exalted </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> we walk with uplifted faces!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.89.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content"> For our shield belongs to the Lord, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.89.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content"> Once You spoke in a vision to Your devoted ones and said, I have endowed one who is mighty [a hero, giving him the power to help&#8211;to be a champion for Israel]; I have exalted one chosen from among the people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.89.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content"> I have found David My servant; with My holy oil have I anointed him, [Acts 13:22.]</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.89.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content"> With whom My hand shall be established </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> ever abide; My arm also shall strengthen him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.89.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content"> The enemy shall not exact from him </span><span class="it"><span class="content">or</span></span><span class="content"> do him violence </span><span class="it"><span class="content">or</span></span><span class="content"> outwit him, nor shall the wicked afflict </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> humble him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.89.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content"> I will beat down his foes before his face and smite those who hate him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.89.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content"> My faithfulness and My mercy </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> loving-kindness shall be with him, and in My name shall his horn be exalted [great power and prosperity shall be conferred upon him].</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.89.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content"> I will set his hand in control also on the [Mediterranean] Sea, and his right hand on the rivers [Euphrates with its tributaries].</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.89.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content"> He shall cry to Me, You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.89.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content"> Also I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. [Rev. 1:5.]</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.89.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content"> My mercy </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> loving-kindness will I keep for him forevermore, and My covenant shall stand fast </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> be faithful with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.89.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content"> His Offspring also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. [Isa. 9:7; Gal. 3:16.]</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.89.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content"> If his children forsake My law and walk not in My ordinances,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.89.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content"> If they break </span><span class="it"><span class="content">or</span></span><span class="content"> profane My statutes and keep not My commandments,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.89.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content"> Then will I punish their transgression with the rod [of chastisement], and their iniquity with stripes. [II Sam. 7:14.]</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.89.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content"> Nevertheless, My loving-kindness will I not break off from him, nor allow My faithfulness to fail [to lie and be false to him].</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.89.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content"> My covenant will I not break </span><span class="it"><span class="content">or</span></span><span class="content"> profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.89.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content"> Once [for all] have I sworn by My holiness, which cannot be violated; I will not lie to David:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.89.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content"> His Offspring shall endure forever, and his throne [shall continue] as the sun before Me. [Isa. 9:7; Gal. 3:16.]</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="PSA.89.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content"> It shall be established forever as the moon, the faithful witness in the heavens. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! [Rev. 1:5; 3:14.]</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.89.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content"> But [in apparent contradiction to all this] You [even You the faithful Lord] have cast off and rejected; You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.89.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content"> You have despised </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> loathed and renounced the covenant with Your servant; You have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.89.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content"> You have broken down all his hedges </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.89.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content"> All who pass along the road spoil </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> rob him; he has become the scorn </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> reproach of his neighbors.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.89.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content"> You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.89.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content"> Moreover, You have turned back the edge of his sword and have not made him to stand in battle.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.89.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content"> You have made his glory </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> splendor to cease and have hurled to the ground his throne.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.89.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content"> The days of his youth have You shortened; You have covered him with shame. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.89.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content"> How long, O Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? How long shall Your wrath burn like fire?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.89.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content"> O [earnestly] remember how short my time is </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> what a mere fleeting life mine is. For what emptiness, falsity, futility, </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> frailty You have created all men!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.89.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content"> What man can live and shall not see death, or can deliver himself from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the place of the dead)? Selah [pause, and calmly consider that]!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.89.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content"> Lord, where are Your former loving-kindnesses [shown in the reigns of David and Solomon], which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.89.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content"> Remember, Lord, </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> earnestly imprint [on Your heart] the reproach of Your servants, scorned </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> insulted, how I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many </span><span class="it"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> mighty peoples,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="PSA.89.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content"> With which Your enemies have taunted, O Lord, with which they have mocked the footsteps of Your anointed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="PSA.89.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content"> Blessed be the Lord forevermore! Amen and Amen.</span></span></div>
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1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation

I WILL sing of the mercy and loving-kindness of the Lord forever; with my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness from generation to generation.
For I have said, Mercy and loving-kindness shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness will You establish in the very heavens [unchangeable and perpetual].
[You have said] I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant,
Your Seed I will establish forever, and I will build up your throne for all generations. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! [Isa. 9:7; Luke 1:32, 33; Gal. 3:16]
Let heaven (the angels) praise Your wonders, O Lord, Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones (the holy angels).
For who in the heavens can be compared to the Lord? Who among the mighty [heavenly beings] can be likened to the Lord,
A God greatly feared and revered in the council of the holy (angelic) ones, and to be feared and worshipfully revered above all those who are round about Him?
O Lord God of hosts, who is a mighty one like unto You, O Lord? And Your faithfulness is round about You [an essential part of You at all times].
You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves arise, You still them.
You have broken Rahab (Egypt) in pieces; with Your mighty arm You have scattered Your enemies.
The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; the world and all that is in it, You have founded them.
The north and the south, You have created them; Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon joyously praise Your name.
You have a mighty arm; strong is Your hand, Your right hand is soaring high.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; mercy and loving-kindness and truth go before Your face.
Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are the people who know the joyful sound [who understand and appreciate the spiritual blessings symbolized by the feasts]; they walk, O Lord, in the light and favor of Your countenance!
In Your name they rejoice all the day, and in Your righteousness they are exalted.
For You are the glory of their strength [their proud adornment], and by Your favor our horn is exalted and we walk with uplifted faces!
For our shield belongs to the Lord, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
Once You spoke in a vision to Your devoted ones and said, I have endowed one who is mighty [a hero, giving him the power to help–to be a champion for Israel]; I have exalted one chosen from among the people.
I have found David My servant; with My holy oil have I anointed him, [Acts 13:22.]
With whom My hand shall be established and ever abide; My arm also shall strengthen him.
The enemy shall not exact from him or do him violence or outwit him, nor shall the wicked afflict and humble him.
I will beat down his foes before his face and smite those who hate him.
My faithfulness and My mercy and loving-kindness shall be with him, and in My name shall his horn be exalted [great power and prosperity shall be conferred upon him].
I will set his hand in control also on the [Mediterranean] Sea, and his right hand on the rivers [Euphrates with its tributaries].
He shall cry to Me, You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation!
Also I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. [Rev. 1:5.]
My mercy and loving-kindness will I keep for him forevermore, and My covenant shall stand fast and be faithful with him.
His Offspring also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. [Isa. 9:7; Gal. 3:16.]
If his children forsake My law and walk not in My ordinances,
If they break or profane My statutes and keep not My commandments,
Then will I punish their transgression with the rod [of chastisement], and their iniquity with stripes. [II Sam. 7:14.]
Nevertheless, My loving-kindness will I not break off from him, nor allow My faithfulness to fail [to lie and be false to him].
My covenant will I not break or profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips.
Once [for all] have I sworn by My holiness, which cannot be violated; I will not lie to David:
His Offspring shall endure forever, and his throne [shall continue] as the sun before Me. [Isa. 9:7; Gal. 3:16.]
It shall be established forever as the moon, the faithful witness in the heavens. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! [Rev. 1:5; 3:14.]
But [in apparent contradiction to all this] You [even You the faithful Lord] have cast off and rejected; You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.
You have despised and loathed and renounced the covenant with Your servant; You have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
You have broken down all his hedges and his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
All who pass along the road spoil and rob him; he has become the scorn and reproach of his neighbors.
You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.
Moreover, You have turned back the edge of his sword and have not made him to stand in battle.
You have made his glory and splendor to cease and have hurled to the ground his throne.
The days of his youth have You shortened; You have covered him with shame. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
How long, O Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? How long shall Your wrath burn like fire?
O [earnestly] remember how short my time is and what a mere fleeting life mine is. For what emptiness, falsity, futility, and frailty You have created all men!
What man can live and shall not see death, or can deliver himself from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the place of the dead)? Selah [pause, and calmly consider that]!
Lord, where are Your former loving-kindnesses [shown in the reigns of David and Solomon], which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?
Remember, Lord, and earnestly imprint [on Your heart] the reproach of Your servants, scorned and insulted, how I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many and mighty peoples,
With which Your enemies have taunted, O Lord, with which they have mocked the footsteps of Your anointed.
Blessed be the Lord forevermore! Amen and Amen.

සවන් දෙන්න Psalm 89