Psalms 89
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Lutheran reading notes
In Psalms chapter 89, the wisdom literature continues to explore prayer, worship, lament, praise, and trust in God. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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[Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.] I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. {Maschil...: or, A Psalm for Ethan the Ezrahite, to give instruction} {to all...: Heb. to generation and generation}
Psalms 89:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
Psalms 89:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
Psalms 89:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
Psalms 89:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
Psalms 89:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? {who} among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?
Psalms 89:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all {them that are} about him.
Psalms 89:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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O LORD God of hosts, who {is} a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
Psalms 89:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
Psalms 89:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. {Rahab: or, Egypt} {thy...: Heb. the arm of thy strength}
Psalms 89:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The heavens {are} thine, the earth also {is} thine: {as for} the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. {the fulness...: or, all it containeth}
Psalms 89:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
Psalms 89:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, {and} high is thy right hand. {a...: Heb. an arm with might}
Psalms 89:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Justice and judgment {are} the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. {habitation: or, establishment}
Psalms 89:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Blessed {is} the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
Psalms 89:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
Psalms 89:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For thou {art} the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
Psalms 89:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the LORD {is} our defence; and the Holy One of Israel {is} our king. {the LORD...: or, our shield is of the LORD, and our king is of the Holy One of Israel}
Psalms 89:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon {one that is} mighty; I have exalted {one} chosen out of the people.
Psalms 89:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
Psalms 89:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
Psalms 89:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
Psalms 89:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
Psalms 89:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But my faithfulness and my mercy {shall be} with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
Psalms 89:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
Psalms 89:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He shall cry unto me, Thou {art} my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
Psalms 89:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Also I will make him {my} firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
Psalms 89:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
Psalms 89:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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His seed also will I make {to endure} for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
Psalms 89:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
Psalms 89:30 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; {break: Heb. profane}
Psalms 89:31 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Psalms 89:32 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. {will...: Heb. I will not make void from him} {to fall: Heb. to lie}
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My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Psalms 89:34 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. {that...: Heb. if I lie}
Psalms 89:35 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
Psalms 89:36 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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It shall be established for ever as the moon, and {as} a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
Psalms 89:37 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
Psalms 89:38 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown {by casting it} to the ground.
Psalms 89:39 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
Psalms 89:40 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
Psalms 89:41 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
Psalms 89:42 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
Psalms 89:43 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. {glory: Heb. brightness}
Psalms 89:44 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
Psalms 89:45 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Psalms 89:46 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Psalms 89:47 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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What man {is he that} liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Psalms 89:48 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Lord, where {are} thy former lovingkindnesses, {which} thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
Psalms 89:49 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; {how} I do bear in my bosom {the reproach of} all the mighty people;
Psalms 89:50 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
Psalms 89:51 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Blessed {be} the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
Psalms 89:52 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.