Psalm 89

Psa. 89:0   A  Maskil of  Ethan  the Ezrahite. 

Psa. 89:1    I will  sing of the lovingkindness of the LORD forever; 

To all generations I will  make known Your  faithfulness with my mouth. 

2  For I have said, “ Lovingkindness will be built up forever; 

In the heavens You will establish Your  faithfulness.” 

3  “I have made a covenant with  My chosen; 

I have  sworn to David My servant, 

4  I will establish your  seed forever 

And build up your  throne to all generations.” Selah. 

Psa. 89:5    The  heavens will praise Your wonders, O LORD; 

Your faithfulness also  in the assembly of the  holy ones. 

6  For  who in the skies is comparable to the LORD? 

Who among the   sons of the mighty is like the LORD, 

7  A God  greatly feared in the council of the  holy ones, 

And  awesome above all those who are around Him? 

8  O LORD God of hosts,  who is like You, O mighty  LORD? 

Your faithfulness also surrounds You. 

9  You rule the swelling of the sea; 

When its waves rise, You  still them. 

10  You Yourself crushed   Rahab like one who is slain; 

You  scattered Your enemies with  Your mighty arm. 

Psa. 89:11    The  heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; 

The  world and  all it contains, You have founded them. 

12  The  north and the south, You have created them; 

Tabor and  Hermon  shout for joy at Your name. 

13  You have  a strong arm; 

Your hand is mighty, Your  right hand is exalted. 

14   Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; 

Lovingkindness and  truth go before You. 

15  How blessed are the people who know the   joyful sound! 

O LORD, they walk in the  light of Your countenance. 

16  In  Your name they rejoice all the day, 

And by Your righteousness they are exalted. 

17  For You are the glory of  their strength, 

And by Your favor  our  horn is exalted. 

18  For our  shield belongs to the LORD, 

And our king to the  Holy One of Israel. 

Psa. 89:19     Once You spoke in vision to Your godly  ones, 

And said, “I have  given help to one who is  mighty; 

I have exalted one  chosen from the people. 

20  “I have  found David My servant; 

With My holy  oil I have anointed him, 

21  With whom  My hand will be established; 

My arm also will  strengthen him. 

22  “The enemy will not  deceive him, 

Nor the   son of wickedness afflict him. 

23  “But I shall  crush his adversaries before him, 

And strike those who hate him. 

24  “My  faithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with him, 

And in My name his  horn will be exalted. 

25  “I shall also set his hand  on the sea 

And his right hand on the rivers. 

26  “He will cry to Me, ‘You are  my Father, 

My God, and the  rock of my salvation.’ 

27  “I also shall make him My  firstborn, 

The  highest of the kings of the earth. 

28  “My  lovingkindness I will keep for him forever, 

And My  covenant shall be confirmed to him. 

29  “So I will establish his   descendants forever 

And his  throne  as the days of heaven. 

Psa. 89:30    “If his sons  forsake My law 

And do not walk in My judgments, 

31  If they  violate My statutes 

And do not keep My commandments, 

32  Then I will punish their transgression with the  rod 

And their iniquity with stripes. 

33  “But I will not break off  My lovingkindness from him, 

Nor deal falsely in My faithfulness. 

34  “My  covenant I will not  violate, 

Nor will I  alter  the utterance of My lips. 

35  “ Once I have  sworn by My holiness; 

I will not lie to David. 

36  “His   descendants shall endure forever 

And his  throne  as the sun before Me. 

37  “It shall be established forever  like the moon, 

And the  witness in the sky is faithful.” Selah. 

Psa. 89:38    But You have  cast off and  rejected, 

You have been full of wrath  against Your  anointed. 

39  You have  spurned the covenant of Your servant; 

You have  profaned  his crown  in the dust. 

40  You have  broken down all his walls; 

You have  brought his strongholds to ruin. 

41   All who pass along the way plunder him; 

He has become a  reproach to his neighbors. 

42  You have  exalted the right hand of his adversaries; 

You have  made all his enemies rejoice. 

43  You also turn back the edge of his sword 

And have  not made him stand in battle. 

44  You have made his   splendor to cease 

And cast his throne to the ground. 

45  You have  shortened the days of his youth; 

You have  covered him with shame.  Selah. 

Psa. 89:46     How long, O LORD? 

Will You hide Yourself forever? 

Will Your  wrath burn like fire? 

47   Remember  what my span of life is; 

For what  vanity  You have created all the sons of men! 

48  What man can live and not  see death? 

Can he  deliver his soul from the  power of  Sheol?  Selah. 

Psa. 89:49    Where are Your former lovingkindnesses, O Lord, 

Which You  swore to David in Your faithfulness? 

50  Remember, O Lord, the  reproach of Your servants; 

How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many peoples, 

51  With which  Your enemies have reproached, O LORD, 

With which they have reproached the footsteps of  Your anointed. 

Psa. 89:52     Blessed be the LORD forever! 

Amen and Amen. 

Psalm 62

Psa. 62:0   For the choir director; according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. 

Psa. 62:1    My soul waits in silence for God only; 

From Him is my salvation. 

2  He only is my rock and my salvation, 

My stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken. 

Psa. 62:3    How long will you assail a man, 

That you may murder him, all of you, 

Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence? 

4  They have counseled only to thrust him down from his high position; 

They delight in falsehood; 

They bless with their mouth, 

But inwardly they curse. Selah. 

Psa. 62:5    My soul, wait in silence for God only, 

For my hope is from Him. 

6  He only is my rock and my salvation, 

My stronghold; I shall not be shaken. 

7  On God my salvation and my glory rest; 

The rock of my strength, my refuge is in God. 

8  Trust in Him at all times, O people; 

Pour out your heart before Him; 

God is a refuge for us.  Selah. 

Psa. 62:9    Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie; 

In the balances they go up; 

They are together lighter than breath. 

10  Do not trust in oppression 

And do not vainly hope in robbery; 

If riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

Psa. 62:11    Once God has spoken; 

Twice I have heard this: 

That power belongs to God; 

12  And lovingkindness is Yours, O Lord, 

For You recompense a man according to his work. 

Psalm 15

Psa. 15:0   A Psalm of David. 

Psa. 15:1    O LORD, who may  abide  in Your tent? 

Who may dwell on Your  holy hill? 

2  He who  walks with integrity, and works righteousness, 

And  speaks truth in his heart. 

3  He  does not slander  with his tongue, 

Nor  does evil to his neighbor, 

Nor  takes up a reproach against his friend; 

4  In  whose eyes a reprobate is despised, 

But  who  honors those who fear the LORD; 

He  swears to his own hurt and does not change; 

5  He  does not put out his money  at interest, 

Nor  does he take a bribe against the innocent. 

He who does these things will never be shaken. 

Psalm 31:3

Psa. 31:0   For the choir director. A Psalm of David. 

Psa. 31:1    In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; 

Let me never be ashamed; 

In Your righteousness deliver me. 

2  Incline Your ear to me, rescue me quickly; 

Be to me a rock of strength, 

A stronghold to save me. 

3  For You are my rock and my fortress; 

For Your name’s sake You will lead me and guide me. 

4  You will pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, 

For You are my strength. 

5  Into Your hand I commit my spirit; 

You have ransomed me, O LORD, God of truth. 

Psa. 31:6    I hate those who regard vain idols, 

But I trust in the LORD. 

7  I will rejoice and be glad in Your lovingkindness, 

Because You have seen my affliction; 

You have known the troubles of my soul, 

8  And You have not given me over into the hand of the enemy; 

You have set my feet in a large place. 

Psa. 31:9    Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; 

My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also.

10  For my life is spent with sorrow 

And my years with sighing; 

My strength has failed because of my iniquity, 

And my body has wasted away. 

11  Because of all my adversaries, I have become a reproach, 

Especially to my neighbors, 

And an object of dread to my acquaintances; 

Those who see me in the street flee from me. 

12  I am forgotten as a dead man, out of mind; 

I am like a broken vessel. 

13  For I have heard the slander of many, 

Terror is on every side; 

While they took counsel together against me, 

They schemed to take away my life. 

Psa. 31:14    But as for me, I trust in You, O LORD, 

I say, “You are my God.” 

15  My times are in Your hand; 

Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me. 

16  Make Your face to shine upon Your servant; 

Save me in Your lovingkindness. 

17  Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I call upon You; 

Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol. 

18  Let the lying lips be mute, 

Which speak arrogantly against the righteous 

With pride and contempt. 

Psa. 31:19    How great is Your goodness, 

Which You have stored up for those who fear You, 

Which You have wrought for those who take refuge in You, 

Before the sons of men! 

20  You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the conspiracies of man; 

You keep them secretly in a shelter from the strife of tongues. 

21  Blessed be the LORD, 

For He has made marvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged city. 

22  As for me, I said in my alarm, 

“I am cut off from before Your eyes”; 

Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications 

When I cried to You. 

Psa. 31:23    O love the LORD, all you His godly ones! 

The LORD preserves the faithful 

And fully recompenses the proud doer. 

24  Be strong and let your heart take courage, 

All you who hope in the LORD. 

Psalm 21:13

Psa. 21:0   For the choir director. A Psalm of David. 

Psa. 21:1    O LORD, in Your strength the king will  be glad, 

And in Your  salvation how greatly he will rejoice! 

2  You have  given him his heart’s desire, 

And You have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah. 

3  For You  meet him with the blessings of good things; 

You set a  crown of fine gold on his head. 

4  He asked life of You, 

You  gave it to him, 

Length of days forever and ever. 

5  His  glory is great through Your  salvation, 

Splendor and majesty You place upon him. 

6  For You make him  most  blessed forever; 

You make him joyful  with gladness in Your presence. 

Psa. 21:7    For the king  trusts in the LORD, 

And through the lovingkindness of the Most High  he will not be shaken. 

8  Your hand will  find out all your enemies; 

Your right hand will find out those who hate you. 

9  You will make them  as a fiery oven in the time  of your anger; 

The LORD will  swallow them up in His wrath, 

And  fire will devour them. 

10  Their  offspring You will destroy from the earth, 

And their   descendants from among the sons of men. 

11  Though they   intended evil against You 

And  devised a plot, 

They will not succeed. 

12  For You will  make them turn their back; 

You will  aim  with Your bowstrings at their faces. 

13  Be exalted, O LORD, in Your strength; 

We will  sing and praise Your power. 

Psalm 34:8

Psa. 34:0   A Psalm of David when he feigned madness before Abimelech, who drove him away and he departed. 

Psa. 34:1    I will bless the LORD at all times; 

His praise shall continually be in my mouth. 

2  My soul will make its boast in the LORD; 

The humble will hear it and rejoice. 

3  O magnify the LORD with me, 

And let us exalt His name together. 

Psa. 34:4    I sought the LORD, and He answered me, 

And delivered me from all my fears. 

5  They looked to Him and were radiant, 

And their faces will never be ashamed. 

6  This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him 

And saved him out of all his troubles. 

7  The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him, 

And rescues them. 

Psa. 34:8    O taste and see that the LORD is good; 

How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! 

9  O fear the LORD, you His saints; 

For to those who fear Him there is no want. 

10  The young lions do lack and suffer hunger; 

But they who seek the LORD shall not be in want of any good thing. 

11  Come, you children, listen to me; 

I will teach you the fear of the LORD. 

12  Who is the man who desires life 

And loves length of days that he may see good? 

13  Keep your tongue from evil 

And your lips from speaking deceit. 

14  Depart from evil and do good; 

Seek peace and pursue it. 

Psa. 34:15    The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous 

And His ears are open to their cry. 

16  The face of the LORD is against evildoers, 

To cut off the memory of them from the earth. 

17  The righteous cry, and the LORD hears 

And delivers them out of all their troubles. 

18  The LORD is near to the brokenhearted 

And saves those who are crushed in spirit. 

Psa. 34:19    Many are the afflictions of the righteous, 

But the LORD delivers him out of them all. 

20  He keeps all his bones, 

Not one of them is broken. 

21  Evil shall slay the wicked, 

And those who hate the righteous will be condemned. 

22  The LORD redeems the soul of His servants, 

And none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned. 

Psalm 32

Psalm 48

Psa. 48:0   A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. 

Psa. 48:1    Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, 

In the city of our God, His holy mountain. 

2  Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, 

Is Mount Zion in the far north, 

The city of the great King. 

3  God, in her palaces, 

Has made Himself known as a stronghold. 

Psa. 48:4    For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, 

They passed by together. 

5  They saw it, then they were amazed; 

They were terrified, they fled in alarm. 

6  Panic seized them there, 

Anguish, as of a woman in childbirth. 

7  With the east wind 

You break the ships of Tarshish. 

8  As we have heard, so have we seen 

In the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God; 

God will establish her forever. Selah. 

Psa. 48:9    We have thought on Your lovingkindness, O God, 

In the midst of Your temple. 

10  As is Your name, O God, 

So is Your praise to the ends of the earth; 

Your right hand is full of righteousness. 

11  Let Mount Zion be glad, 

Let the daughters of Judah rejoice 

Because of Your judgments. 

12  Walk about Zion and go around her; 

Count her towers; 

13  Consider her ramparts; 

Go through her palaces, 

That you may tell it to the next generation. 

14  For such is God, 

Our God forever and ever; 

He will guide us until death. 

Psalm 68:32-35

Psalm 78

Psa. 78:0   A Maskil of Asaph. 

Psa. 78:1    Listen, O my people, to my instruction; 

Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 

2  I will open my mouth in a parable; 

I will utter dark sayings of old, 

3  Which we have heard and known, 

And our fathers have told us. 

4  We will not conceal them from their children, 

But tell to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, 

And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done. 

Psa. 78:5    For He established a testimony in Jacob 

And appointed a law in Israel, 

Which He commanded our fathers 

That they should teach them to their children, 

6  That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born, 

That they may arise and tell them to their children, 

7  That they should put their confidence in God 

And not forget the works of God, 

But keep His commandments, 

8  And not be like their fathers, 

A stubborn and rebellious generation, 

A generation that did not prepare its heart 

And whose spirit was not faithful to God. 

Psa. 78:9    The sons of Ephraim were archers equipped with bows, 

Yet they turned back in the day of battle. 

10  They did not keep the covenant of God 

And refused to walk in His law; 

11  They forgot His deeds 

And His miracles that He had shown them. 

12  He wrought wonders before their fathers 

In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 

13  He divided the sea and caused them to pass through, 

And He made the waters stand up like a heap. 

14  Then He led them with the cloud by day 

And all the night with a light of fire. 

15  He split the rocks in the wilderness 

And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths. 

16  He brought forth streams also from the rock 

And caused waters to run down like rivers. 

Psa. 78:17    Yet they still continued to sin against Him, 

To rebel against the Most High in the desert. 

18  And in their heart they put God to the test 

By asking food according to their desire. 

19  Then they spoke against God; 

They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? 

20  “Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out, 

And streams were overflowing; 

Can He give bread also? 

Will He provide meat for His people?” 

Psa. 78:21    Therefore the LORD heard and was full of wrath; 

And a fire was kindled against Jacob 

And anger also mounted against Israel, 

22  Because they did not believe in God 

And did not trust in His salvation. 

23  Yet He commanded the clouds above 

And opened the doors of heaven; 

24  He rained down manna upon them to eat 

And gave them food from heaven. 

25  Man did eat the bread of angels; 

He sent them food in abundance. 

26  He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens 

And by His power He directed the south wind. 

27  When He rained meat upon them like the dust, 

Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas, 

28  Then He let them fall in the midst of their camp, 

Round about their dwellings. 

29  So they ate and were well filled, 

And their desire He gave to them. 

30  Before they had satisfied their desire, 

While their food was in their mouths, 

31  The anger of God rose against them 

And killed some of their stoutest ones, 

And subdued the choice men of Israel. 

32  In spite of all this they still sinned 

And did not believe in His wonderful works. 

33  So He brought their days to an end in futility 

And their years in sudden terror. 

Psa. 78:34    When He killed them, then they sought Him, 

And returned and searched diligently for God; 

35  And they remembered that God was their rock, 

And the Most High God their Redeemer. 

36  But they deceived Him with their mouth 

And lied to Him with their tongue. 

37  For their heart was not steadfast toward Him, 

Nor were they faithful in His covenant. 

38  But He, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them; 

And often He restrained His anger 

And did not arouse all His wrath. 

39  Thus He remembered that they were but flesh, 

A wind that passes and does not return. 

Psa. 78:40    How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness 

And grieved Him in the desert! 

41  Again and again they tempted God, 

And pained the Holy One of Israel. 

42  They did not remember His power, 

The day when He redeemed them from the adversary, 

43  When He performed His signs in Egypt 

And His marvels in the field of Zoan, 

44  And turned their rivers to blood, 

And their streams, they could not drink. 

45  He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them, 

And frogs which destroyed them. 

46  He gave also their crops to the grasshopper 

And the product of their labor to the locust. 

47  He destroyed their vines with hailstones 

And their sycamore trees with frost. 

48  He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones 

And their herds to bolts of lightning. 

49  He sent upon them His burning anger, 

Fury and indignation and trouble, 

A band of destroying angels. 

50  He leveled a path for His anger; 

He did not spare their soul from death, 

But gave over their life to the plague, 

51  And smote all the firstborn in Egypt, 

The first issue of their virility in the tents of Ham. 

52  But He led forth His own people like sheep 

And guided them in the wilderness like a flock; 

53  He led them safely, so that they did not fear; 

But the sea engulfed their enemies. 

Psa. 78:54    So He brought them to His holy land, 

To this hill country which His right hand had gained. 

55  He also drove out the nations before them 

And apportioned them for an inheritance by measurement, 

And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents. 

56  Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God 

And did not keep His testimonies, 

57  But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers; 

They turned aside like a treacherous bow. 

58  For they provoked Him with their high places 

And aroused His jealousy with their graven images. 

59  When God heard, He was filled with wrath 

And greatly abhorred Israel; 

60  So that He abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh, 

The tent which He had pitched among men, 

61  And gave up His strength to captivity 

And His glory into the hand of the adversary. 

62  He also delivered His people to the sword, 

And was filled with wrath at His inheritance. 

63  Fire devoured His young men, 

And His virgins had no wedding songs. 

64  His priests fell by the sword, 

And His widows could not weep. 

Psa. 78:65    Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, 

Like a warrior overcome by wine. 

66  He drove His adversaries backward; 

He put on them an everlasting reproach. 

67  He also rejected the tent of Joseph, 

And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim, 

68  But chose the tribe of Judah, 

Mount Zion which He loved. 

69  And He built His sanctuary like the heights, 

Like the earth which He has founded forever. 

70  He also chose David His servant 

And took him from the sheepfolds; 

71  From the care of the ewes with suckling lambs He brought him 

To shepherd Jacob His people, 

And Israel His inheritance. 

72  So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, 

And guided them with his skillful hands. 

Psalm 44

Psa. 44:0   For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. 

Psa. 44:1    O God, we have heard with our ears, 

Our fathers have told us 

The work that You did in their days, 

In the days of old. 

2  You with Your own hand drove out the nations; 

Then You planted them; 

You afflicted the peoples, 

Then You spread them abroad. 

3  For by their own sword they did not possess the land, 

And their own arm did not save them, 

But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence, 

For You favored them. 

Psa. 44:4    You are my King, O God; 

Command victories for Jacob. 

5  Through You we will push back our adversaries; 

Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us. 

6  For I will not trust in my bow, 

Nor will my sword save me. 

7  But You have saved us from our adversaries, 

And You have put to shame those who hate us. 

8  In God we have boasted all day long, 

And we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah. 

Psa. 44:9    Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor, 

And do not go out with our armies. 

10  You cause us to turn back from the adversary; 

And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves. 

11  You give us as sheep to be eaten 

And have scattered us among the nations. 

12  You sell Your people cheaply, 

And have not profited by their sale. 

13  You make us a reproach to our neighbors, 

A scoffing and a derision to those around us. 

14  You make us a byword among the nations, 

A laughingstock among the peoples. 

15  All day long my dishonor is before me 

And my humiliation has overwhelmed me, 

16  Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles, 

Because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger. 

Psa. 44:17    All this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten You, 

And we have not dealt falsely with Your covenant. 

18  Our heart has not turned back, 

And our steps have not deviated from Your way, 

19  Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackals 

And covered us with the shadow of death. 

Psa. 44:20    If we had forgotten the name of our God 

Or extended our hands to a strange god, 

21  Would not God find this out? 

For He knows the secrets of the heart. 

22  But for Your sake we are killed all day long; 

We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. 

23  Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord? 

Awake, do not reject us forever. 

24  Why do You hide Your face 

And forget our affliction and our oppression? 

25  For our soul has sunk down into the dust; 

Our body cleaves to the earth. 

26  Rise up, be our help, 

And redeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness. 

Jeremiah 31:31-37

Psalm 14

Psalm 28

Psalm 35

Psalm 28

Psalm 48

Psalm 79

Psalm 72

John 15:1-5

Romans 6:1-18

Psalm 1

Psalm 12:6-7

Psalm 69:1-3

Psalm 64

Psalm 74

Psalm 52

Psalm 49

Psalm 63:1-3

Psalm 71:1-3

Psalm 92

Ps 82:1-8

2 Samuel 7:8-16 Davidic Covenant

Ps 89:52 “Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and Amen.”

Psa. 45:3 “Gird Your sword on Your thigh, O Mighty One, In Your splendor and Your majesty!”

Ps 116:5 “Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yes, our God is compassionate.”

Psa. 127:1 “Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain.”

Ps 19:1 “The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.”

“The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock; And exalted be the God of my salvation” (Ps 18:46).