Book of Psalms, No. 89
Psalms 89 NWT - New World TranslationNo. 89 of the Psalms—New World Translation (NWT)
- ¶ Jehovah’s expressions of loving-kindness[a] I will sing about even to time indefinite.1
For generation after generation I shall make your faithfulness known with my mouth.2 - ¶ For I have said: “Loving-kindness will stay built even to time indefinite;3
As for the heavens, you keep your faithfulness firmly established in them.”4 - ¶ “I have concluded[b] a covenant toward my chosen one;5
I have sworn to David my servant,6 - ¶ ‘Even to time indefinite I shall firmly establish your seed,[c]7
And I will build your throne8 to generation after generation.’” Seʹlah. - ¶ And the heavens will laud your marvelous act, O Jehovah,9
Yes, your faithfulness in the congregation[d] of the holy ones. - ¶ For who in the skies can be compared to Jehovah?10
Who can resemble Jehovah among the sons of God?[e]11 - ¶ God[f] is to be held in awe among the intimate group of holy ones;12
He is grand and fear-inspiring over all who are round about him.13 - ¶ O Jehovah God of armies,14
Who is vigorous like you, O Jah?[g]15
And your faithfulness is all around you.16 - ¶ You are ruling over the swelling of the sea;17
When it raises up its waves you yourself calm them.18 - ¶ You yourself have crushed Raʹhab,[h]19 even as someone slain.20
By the arm of your strength you have scattered your enemies.21 - ¶ Heaven is yours,22 the earth also is yours;23
The productive land[i] and what fills it24—you yourself have founded them.25 - ¶ The north and the south[j]—you yourself created them;26
Taʹbor27 and Herʹmon28—in your name they cry out joyfully.29 - ¶ An arm with mightiness is yours,30
Your hand is strong,31
Your right hand is exalted.32 - ¶ Righteousness and judgment are the established place of your throne;33
Loving-kindness and trueness[k] themselves come in before your face.34 - ¶ Happy are the people knowing the joyful shouting.35
O Jehovah, in the light of your face they keep walking.36 - ¶ In your name they are joyful all day long37
And in your righteousness they are exalted.38 - ¶ For you are the beauty of their strength;39
And by your goodwill our horn is exalted.40 - ¶ For our shield belongs to Jehovah,41
And our king belongs to the Holy One of Israel.42 - ¶ At that time you spoke in a vision to your loyal ones,43
And you proceeded to say:
¶ “I have placed help upon a mighty one;44
I have exalted a chosen one from among the people.45 - ¶ I have found David my servant;46
With my holy oil I have anointed him,47 - ¶ With whom my own hand will be firm,48
Whom my own arm also will strengthen.49 - ¶ No enemy will make exactions upon him,50
Neither will any son of unrighteousness afflict him.51 - ¶ And from before him I crushed his adversaries to pieces,52
And to those intensely hating him I kept dealing out blows.53 - ¶ And my faithfulness and my loving-kindness are with him,54
And in my name his horn is exalted.55 - ¶ And on the sea I have put his hand56
And on the rivers his right hand.57 - ¶ He himself calls out to me, ‘You are my Father,58
My God59 and the Rock of my salvation.’60 - ¶ Also, I myself shall place him as firstborn,61
The most high of the kings of the earth.62 - ¶ To time indefinite I shall preserve my loving-kindness toward him,63
And my covenant will be faithful[l] to him.64 - ¶ And I shall certainly set up his seed forever65
And his throne as the days of heaven.66 - ¶ If his sons leave my law67
And in my judicial decisions they do not walk,68 - ¶ If they profane my own statutes
And they do not keep my own commandments, - ¶ I must also turn my attention to their transgression even with a rod69
And to their error even with strokes.70 - ¶ But my loving-kindness[m] I shall not break off from him,71
Nor shall I prove false with regard to my faithfulness.72 - ¶ I shall not profane my covenant,73
And the expression out of my lips I shall not change.74 - ¶ Once I have sworn in my holiness,75
To David I will not tell lies.76 - ¶ His seed itself will prove to be even to time indefinite,77
And his throne as the sun in front of me.78 - ¶ As the moon it will be firmly established for time indefinite,
And [as] a faithful witness in the skies.” Seʹlah. - ¶ But you—you have cast off and you keep contemning;79
You have become furious toward your anointed one.[n]80 - ¶ You have spurned the covenant of your servant;
You have profaned his diadem to the very earth.81 - ¶ You have broken down all his stone pens;82
You have laid his fortifications in ruin.83 - ¶ All those passing along the way have pillaged him;84
He has become a reproach to his neighbors.85 - ¶ You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries;86
You have caused all his enemies to rejoice.87 - ¶ What is more, you again treat his sword as a foe,88
And you have caused him not to gain ground in the battle.89 - ¶ You have made [him] cease from his luster,90
And his throne you have hurled to the very earth.91 - ¶ You have shortened the days of his youth;
You have enwrapped him with shame.92 Seʹlah. - ¶ How long, O Jehovah, will you keep yourself concealed? For all time?93
Will your rage keep on burning just like a fire?94 - ¶ Remember of what duration of life I am.95
Is it all in vain that you have created all the sons of men?[o]96 - ¶ What able-bodied man is there alive who will not see death?97
Can he provide escape for his soul from the hand of Sheʹol?98 Seʹlah. - ¶ Where are your former acts of loving-kindness, O Jehovah,[p]
About which you swore to David in your faithfulness?99 - ¶ Remember, O Jehovah,[q] the reproach upon your servants,100
My carrying in my bosom [the reproach of] all the many peoples,101 - ¶ How your enemies have reproached, O Jehovah,[r]102
How they have reproached the footprints of your anointed one.103 - ¶ Blessed be Jehovah[s] to time indefinite. Amen and Amen.104
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Or, “loyal love.”
- ^ Lit., “cut.”
- ^ Or, “offspring.”
- ^ “In the congregation of.” Heb., biq·halʹ; Gr., ek·kle·siʹai; Lat., ec·cleʹsi·a.
- ^ “God.” Heb., ʼE·limʹ, pl. of ʼEl, to denote majesty or excellence; Gr., The·ouʹ; Lat., Deʹi; TSy, “angels.” Compare Job 1:6 ftns, “Sons” and “God”; Job 38:7 ftn.
- ^ Or, “The Divine One.” Heb., ʼEl.
- ^ See 68:4 ftn.
- ^ Or, “the Stormer.” T, “the arrogant one, that is, impious Pharaoh”; LXXVg, “the arrogant (haughty) one.”
- ^ “The productive land.” Heb., te·velʹ; LXX, “the inhabited earth”; Lat., orʹbem terʹrae, “the circle of the earth.”
- ^ “South.” Lit., “right [side],” as one faces east.
- ^ Or, “and truthfulness (truth).” Heb., we·ʼemethʹ.
- ^ Or, “lasting.”
- ^ Or, “loyal love.”
- ^ “Your anointed one.” Heb., meshi·cheʹkha; T(Aram.)Syr., dam·shi·chakh; Gr., khri·stonʹ; Lat., chriʹstum.
- ^ Lit., “earthling man.” Heb., ʼa·dhamʹ.
- ^ One of 134 scribal changes from YHWH to ʼAdho·naiʹ. See App 1B, 1C §10.
- ^ See 90:1 ftn.
- ^ See App 1C §10.
- ^ See App 1C §10.
REFERENCES
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- ^ Ps 119:90
- ^ 1Ch 16:41; Ne 1:5; Is 54:10
- ^ Ps 119:89; Heb 6:18
- ^ 2Sa 7:8; 1Ki 8:16; Is 42:1; Lu 1:32
- ^ Ps 132:11; Je 30:9; Eze 34:23; Ho 3:5; Jn 7:42; Ac 2:30
- ^ 2Sa 7:12; 1Ch 17:11; Re 22:16
- ^ 2Sa 7:13; Lu 1:33; Heb 1:8
- ^ Ps 19:1; 50:6; 97:6
- ^ Ex 15:11; Ps 40:5; 71:19; 86:8; 113:5
- ^ Jb 38:7; Ps 29:1
- ^ Ps 76:7; Is 6:2
- ^ Eze 1:23; Da 7:10
- ^ 1Sa 2:2; Ps 84:12
- ^ Ps 24:8; Is 40:26; Je 32:17
- ^ De 32:4
- ^ Jb 38:8; Ps 107:29; Je 31:35; Na 1:4
- ^ Ps 65:7; 107:29
- ^ Ex 14:26; Ps 87:4; Is 30:7; 51:9
- ^ Ex 15:4
- ^ Ex 3:20; De 4:34; Lu 1:51
- ^ 1Ch 29:11
- ^ 1Co 10:26
- ^ Ps 24:1; 50:12
- ^ Ge 1:1
- ^ Jb 26:7
- ^ Jos 19:22; Jg 4:6
- ^ De 3:8; Jos 12:1
- ^ Ps 65:12
- ^ Ex 6:6; De 4:34
- ^ Ex 13:3; De 6:21; 1Pe 5:6
- ^ Ps 44:3
- ^ De 32:4; Ps 5:4; 71:19; 97:2; 145:17; Pr 16:12; Re 15:3
- ^ Ex 34:6; Ne 9:17; Je 9:24
- ^ Nu 10:10; 23:21; Ps 98:6
- ^ Is 2:5
- ^ Ps 33:21; 44:8
- ^ Ps 71:15
- ^ Ps 28:7
- ^ 1Sa 2:10; Ps 75:10; 92:10; 132:17
- ^ Ps 47:9
- ^ 2Ki 19:22; Ps 2:6
- ^ Nu 12:6; 2Sa 7:4
- ^ 1Sa 18:14; Is 9:6
- ^ 2Sa 7:8; 1Ki 11:34; Heb 2:17
- ^ 1Ch 17:7; Ac 13:22
- ^ 1Sa 16:13; Is 61:1; Ac 10:38
- ^ 2Sa 7:9; Ps 80:17; Is 42:1
- ^ Ps 18:32
- ^ 2Sa 7:13; 1Ch 17:9; Mt 4:11
- ^ 2Sa 17:10
- ^ 2Sa 3:1; 7:9; 22:41
- ^ Ps 21:8; 110:1; Lu 19:27; Jn 15:24
- ^ 2Sa 7:15; 1Ch 17:13; Ps 61:7; Ac 13:34
- ^ 1Sa 2:1; Jn 17:6
- ^ Ps 72:8
- ^ 1Ki 4:21; Ps 80:11
- ^ 1Ch 22:10; Mt 26:39
- ^ Jn 20:17
- ^ 2Sa 22:47; Ps 18:2; Lu 23:46
- ^ 1Sa 10:1; Ps 2:7; Col 1:18; Heb 1:5
- ^ Nu 24:7; 1Ti 6:15; Re 1:5; 19:16
- ^ Ac 13:34
- ^ 2Sa 23:5; Ps 89:34; Lu 22:29
- ^ Is 9:7; Je 33:17
- ^ Heb 1:8
- ^ 2Sa 7:14; Ps 119:53; Je 9:13
- ^ Is 33:22
- ^ 2Sa 7:14; 1Ki 11:31; Pr 13:24
- ^ Ex 32:34; 1Ki 11:14; Heb 12:6
- ^ 2Sa 7:15; 1Ki 11:32, 36
- ^ 1Sa 15:29; Heb 6:18
- ^ Le 26:44; Je 14:21; 33:21
- ^ Ml 3:6; Jm 1:17
- ^ Ps 110:4; Am 4:2; Heb 6:17
- ^ Nu 23:19; 1Sa 15:29; Ps 132:11; Ti 1:2
- ^ 2Sa 7:16; Ps 72:17; Is 11:1; Je 23:5; Zc 6:13; Jn 12:34; Re 22:16
- ^ Je 33:21; Da 7:14; Lu 1:33
- ^ 1Ch 28:9; Ps 44:9; 60:1
- ^ 2Sa 24:12; Zc 13:7
- ^ Ps 74:7; La 5:16; Eze 21:26
- ^ Ps 80:12
- ^ 2Ch 12:4; Je 52:14; La 2:2
- ^ Ps 44:10; Je 50:17
- ^ De 28:37; Ne 5:9
- ^ De 28:25
- ^ La 1:7; 2:17; Jn 16:20
- ^ 2Ch 25:8
- ^ Jos 7:4
- ^ 1Ki 12:16; La 4:2
- ^ Eze 21:26
- ^ Ps 44:15; Is 53:3; Eze 21:25
- ^ Ps 13:1
- ^ Ps 78:63; 79:5; Is 30:27; Je 23:29
- ^ Jb 7:7; Ps 39:5; 119:84
- ^ Jb 14:1; Ps 144:4; Ec 11:8
- ^ Jb 30:23; Ps 49:9; Ec 3:19; 9:5; Heb 11:5
- ^ Ps 49:15; Ac 2:27
- ^ 2Sa 7:15; Ps 132:11; Is 55:3; Ac 2:30
- ^ Ps 44:13; 74:22; Heb 11:26
- ^ Ro 15:3
- ^ Ps 79:10
- ^ 2Sa 16:7; Mt 12:24; 26:65; Jn 8:48
- ^ Ne 9:5; Ps 41:13; 72:18
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