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| 1 An instruction. Of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving-kindness of Jehovah for ever; with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness from generation to generation. |
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| 2 For I said, Loving-kindness shall be built up for ever; in the very heavens wilt thou establish thy faithfulness. |
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| 3 I have made a covenant with mine elect, I have sworn unto David my servant: |
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| 4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne from generation to generation. Selah. |
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| 5 And the heavens shall celebrate thy wonders, O Jehovah, and thy faithfulness in the congregation of the saints. |
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| 6 For who in the heaven can be compared to Jehovah? who among the sons of the mighty shall be likened to Jehovah? |
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| 7 *God is greatly to be feared in the council of the saints, and terrible for all that are round about him. |
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| 8 Jehovah, God of hosts, who is like unto thee, the strong Jah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee. |
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| 9 *Thou* rulest the pride of the sea: when its waves arise, *thou* stillest them. |
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| 10 Thou hast crushed Rahab as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength. |
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| 11 Thine are the heavens, the earth also is thine; the world and its fulness, *thou* hast founded them. |
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| 12 The north and the south, *thou* hast created them: Tabor and Hermon triumph in thy name. |
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| 13 Thine is the arm of might: strong is thy hand, high is thy right hand. |
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| 14 Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of thy throne; loving-kindness and truth go before thy face. |
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| 15 Blessed is the people that know the shout of joy: they walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance. |
The people that know the joyful sound – The word used here for "joyful sound" is Strong's H8643.This is the same word used in Lev. 25:9 to announce the Year of Jubilee on the Day of Atonement. |
| 16 In thy name are they joyful all the day, and in thy righteousness are they exalted. |
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| 17 For thou art the glory of their strength; and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted. |
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| 18 For Jehovah is our shield, and the Holy One of Israel, our king. |
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| 19 Then thou spakest in vision of thy Holy One, and saidst, I have laid help upon a mighty one; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. |
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| 20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: |
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| 21 With whom my hand shall be established; and mine arm shall strengthen him. |
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| 22 No enemy shall exact upon him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him; |
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| 23 But I will beat down his adversaries before his face, and will smite them that hate him. |
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| 24 And my faithfulness and my loving-kindness shall be with him, and by my name shall his horn be exalted. |
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| 25 And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. |
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| 26 *He* shall call unto me, Thou art my father, my *God, and the rock of my salvation; |
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| 27 And as to me, I will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. |
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| 28 My loving-kindness will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him; |
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| 29 And I will establish his seed for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. |
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| 30 If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in mine ordinances; |
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| 31 If they profane my statutes, and keep not my commandments: |
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| 32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. |
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| 33 Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor belie my faithfulness; |
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| 34 My covenant will I not profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. |
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| 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness; I will not lie unto David: |
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| 36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me; |
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| 37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and the witness in the sky is firm. Selah. |
Established forever – The kingdom of Christ will indeed last forever.
As the moon – The New Covenant. As the Law Covenant was pictured by the moon, so also is the New Law Covenant.
Faithful witness in heaven – Jesus is the faithful witness (Rev. 3:14). |
| 38 But thou hast rejected and cast off; thou hast been very wroth with thine anointed: |
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| 39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant; thou hast profaned his crown to the ground: |
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| 40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin. |
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| 41 All that pass by the way plunder him; he is become a reproach to his neighbours. |
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| 42 Thou hast exalted the right hand of his oppressors; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice:
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| 43 Yea, thou hast turned back the edge of his sword, and hast not made him stand in the battle. |
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| 44 Thou hast made his brightness to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground; |
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| 45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened; thou hast covered him with shame. Selah. |
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| 46 How long, Jehovah, wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy fury burn like fire? |
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| 47 Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity? |
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| 48 What man liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah. |
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| 49 Where, Lord, are thy former loving-kindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness? |
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| 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants--that I bear in my bosom that of all the mighty peoples-- |
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| 51 Wherewith thine enemies, O Jehovah, have reproached, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. |
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| 52 Blessed be Jehovah for evermore! Amen, and Amen. |
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