Psalm 89:1-Psalm 90:1 - Perplexity About God's Promises
1 A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations
with my mouth.
“Faithful love is built up forever;
You establish Your faithfulness in the heavens.”
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“I have made a covenant with My chosen one;
I have sworn an oath to David My servant:
and build up your throne for all generations.’”
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Your faithfulness also—
in the assembly of the holy ones.
Who among the heavenly beings
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more awe-inspiring than
who is strong like You, Lord?
Your faithfulness surrounds You.
when its waves surge, You still them.
You scattered Your enemies with Your powerful arm.
The world and everything in it—You founded them.
Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.
Your hand is powerful;
Your right hand is lifted high.
of Your throne;
faithful love and truth go before You.
Yahweh, they walk in the light of Your presence.
and they are exalted by Your righteousness.
by Your favor our horn is exalted.
our king to the Holy One of Israel.
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and said: “I have granted help to a warrior;
I have exalted one chosen
I have anointed him with My sacred oil.
and My arm will strengthen him.
no wicked man will oppress him.
and strike those who hate him.
and through My name
his horn will be exalted.
and his right hand to the rivers.
my God, the rock of my salvation.’
greatest of the kings of the earth.
and My covenant with him will endure.
his throne as long as heaven lasts.
and do not live by My ordinances,
and do not keep My commands,
to account with the rod,
their sin with blows.
My faithful love from him
or betray My faithfulness.
or change what My lips have said.
I have sworn an oath by My holiness;
I will not lie to David.
his throne like the sun before Me,
a faithful witness in the sky.”
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You have become enraged with Your anointed.
You have completely dishonored his crown.
You have reduced his fortified cities to ruins.
he has become an object of ridicule
to his neighbors.
You have made all his enemies rejoice.
and have not let him stand in battle.
and have overturned his throne.
You have covered him with shame.
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Will Your anger keep burning like fire?
Have You created everyone for nothing?
Who can save himself from the power of Sheol?
that You swore to David in Your faithfulness?
in my heart I carry abuse from all the peoples—
how they have ridiculed every step of Your anointed.
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Amen and amen.
1 BOOK IV
(Psalms 90–106)A prayer of Moses, the man of God.
in every generation.