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Psalm 89
89:1 A well-written song by Ethan the Ezrachite. I will sing continually about the Lord’s faithful deeds; to future generations I will proclaim your faithfulness. 89:2 For I say, “Loyal love is permanently established; in the skies you set up your faithfulness.” 89:3 The Lord said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have made a promise on oath to David, my servant: 89:4 ‘I will give you an eternal dynasty and establish your throne throughout future generations.’” (Selah) 89:5 O Lord, the heavens praise your amazing deeds, as well as your faithfulness in the angelic assembly. 89:6 For who in the skies can compare to the Lord? Who is like the Lord among the heavenly beings, 89:7 a God who is honored in the great angelic assembly, and more awesome than all who surround him? 89:8 O Lord, sovereign God! Who is strong like you, O Lord? Your faithfulness surrounds you. 89:9 You rule over the proud sea. When its waves surge, you calm them. 89:10 You crushed the Proud One and killed it; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies. 89:11 The heavens belong to you, as does the earth. You made the world and all it contains. 89:12 You created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name. 89:13 Your arm is powerful, your hand strong, your right hand victorious. 89:14 Equity and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loyal love and faithfulness characterize your rule. 89:15 How blessed are the people who worship you! O Lord, they experience your favor. 89:16 They rejoice in your name all day long, and are vindicated by your justice. 89:17 For you give them splendor and strength. By your favor we are victorious. 89:18 For our shield belongs to the Lord, our king to the Holy One of Israel. 89:19 Then you spoke through a vision to your faithful followers and said: “I have energized a warrior; I have raised up a young man from the people. 89:20 I have discovered David, my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him as king. 89:21 My hand will support him, and my arm will strengthen him. 89:22 No enemy will be able to exact tribute from him; a violent oppressor oppressor will not be able to humiliate him. 89:23 I will crush his enemies before him; I will strike down those who hate him. 89:24 He will experience my faithfulness and loyal love, and by my name he will win victories. 89:25 I will place his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers. 89:26 He will call out to me, ‘You are my father, my God, and the protector who delivers me.’ 89:27 I will appoint him to be my firstborn son, the most exalted of the earth’s kings. 89:28 I will always extend my loyal love to him, and my covenant with him is secure. 89:29 I will give him an eternal dynasty, and make his throne as enduring as the skies above. 89:30 If his sons reject my law and disobey my regulations, 89:31 if they break my rules and do not keep my commandments, 89:32 I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club, their sin by inflicting them with bruises. 89:33 But I will not remove my loyal love from him, nor be unfaithful to my promise. 89:34 I will not break my covenant or go back on what I promised. 89:35 Once and for all I have vowed by my own holiness, I will never deceive David. 89:36 His dynasty will last forever. His throne will endure before me, like the sun, 89:37 it will remain stable, like the moon, his throne will endure like the skies.” (Selah) 89:38 But you have spurned and rejected him; you are angry with your chosen king. 89:39 You have repudiated your covenant with your servant; you have thrown his crown to the ground. 89:40 You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins. 89:41 All who pass by have robbed him; he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors. 89:42 You have allowed his adversaries to be victorious, and all his enemies to rejoice. 89:43 You turn back his sword from the adversary, and have not sustained him in battle. 89:44 You have brought to an end his splendor, and have knocked his throne to the ground. 89:45 You have cut short his youth, and have covered him with shame. (Selah) 89:46 How long, O Lord, will this last? Will you remain hidden forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire? 89:47 Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal? 89:48 No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. (Selah) 89:49 Where are your earlier faithful deeds, O Lord, the ones performed in accordance with your reliable oath to David? 89:50 Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people! 89:51 Your enemies, O Lord, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps. 89:52 The Lord deserves praise forevermore! We agree! We agree!
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · David a son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel,son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel
 · Ethan a wise man, an Ezrahite, in Solomons time,son of Zerah son of Judah; the father of Azariah,son of Zimmah, of Gershom of Levi; ancestor of Asaph; the father of Adaiah,son of Kishi (Merari Levi); a worship leader in David's time
 · Ezrahite a descendant of Ezrah
 · Hermon a mountain half way between Damascus and Tyre
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Maskil a literary or musical term
 · Rahab a woman inkeeper in Jericho who hid two Hebrew spies; ancester of Boaz and of Jesus,an English name representing two different Hebrew names,as representing the Hebrew name 'Rahab',poetic synonym for Egypt and or the exodus (IBD),the mythical monster of chaos, mainly to do with an unruly sea,as representing the Hebrew name 'Raxab', which has a velar fricative in the middle.,a woman of Jericho; wife of Salmon (Matt. 1:5)
 · Selah a musical notation for crescendo or emphasis by action (IBD)
 · Sheol the place of the dead
 · Tabor a mountain on the border between Issachar, Zebulun and Naphtali,a place near Bethel where there was a notable oak tree (OS),a town of Zebulun near Issachar given to the Merarites


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Ethan | EZRAHITE | KING, CHRIST AS | PSALMS, BOOK OF | INTERCESSION | Music | FAITHFUL; FAITHFULNESS | Job, Book of | God | Jesus, The Christ | Church | David | Covenant | MEDIATION; MEDIATOR | Government | Afflictions and Adversities | Arm | King | Truth | COVENANT, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT | more
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NET Notes: Psa 89:1 Heb “to a generation and a generation I will make known your faithfulness with my mouth.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:2 You set up your faithfulness. This may allude to the Lord’s heavenly throne, which symbolizes his just rule and from which the Lord decrees his ...

NET Notes: Psa 89:3 The words “the Lord said” are supplied in the translation for clarification. It is clear that the words of vv. 3-4 are spoken by the Lord,...

NET Notes: Psa 89:4 Heb “and I will build to a generation and a generation your throne.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:5 Heb “in the assembly of the holy ones.” The phrase “holy ones” sometimes refers to God’s people (Ps 34:9) or to their pr...

NET Notes: Psa 89:6 Heb “sons of gods”; or “sons of God.” Though אֵלִים (’elim) is vocalized as a plural...

NET Notes: Psa 89:7 Or perhaps “feared by.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:8 Traditionally “God of hosts.” The title here pictures the Lord as enthroned in the midst of the angelic hosts of heaven.

NET Notes: Psa 89:9 Heb “rise up.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:10 Heb “like one fatally wounded.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:11 Heb “the world and its fullness, you established them.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:12 Tabor and Hermon were two of the most prominent mountains in Palestine.

NET Notes: Psa 89:13 Heb “is lifted up.” The idiom “the right hand is lifted up” refers to victorious military deeds (see Pss 89:42; 118:16).

NET Notes: Psa 89:14 Heb “are in front of your face.” The idiom can mean “confront” (Ps 17:13) or “meet, enter the presence of” (Ps 95:...

NET Notes: Psa 89:15 Heb “in the light of your face they walk.” The idiom “light of your face” probably refers to a smile (see Eccl 8:1), which in ...

NET Notes: Psa 89:16 Heb “are lifted up.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:17 Heb “you lift up our horn,” or if one follows the marginal reading (Qere), “our horn is lifted up.” The horn of an ox underlie...

NET Notes: Psa 89:18 The basic sense of the word “holy” is “set apart from that which is commonplace, special, unique.” The Lord’s holiness i...

NET Notes: Psa 89:19 Or perhaps “a chosen one.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:20 The words “as king” are supplied in the translation for clarification, indicating that a royal anointing is in view.

NET Notes: Psa 89:21 Heb “with whom my hand will be firm.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:22 Heb “and a son of violence will not oppress him.” The imperfect is understood in a modal sense, indicating capability or potential. The re...

NET Notes: Psa 89:24 Heb “and by my name his horn will be lifted up.” The horn of an ox underlies the metaphor (see Deut 33:17; 1 Kgs 22:11; Ps 92:10). The hor...

NET Notes: Psa 89:25 Some identify “the sea” as the Mediterranean and “the rivers” as the Euphrates and its tributaries. However, it is more likely...

NET Notes: Psa 89:26 Heb “the rocky summit of my deliverance.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:27 The firstborn son typically had special status and received special privileges.

NET Notes: Psa 89:28 Heb “forever I will keep for him my loyal love and will make my covenant secure for him.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:29 Heb “and his throne like the days of the heavens.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:31 Or “desecrate.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:32 Heb “with blows their sin.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:33 Heb “and I will not deal falsely with my faithfulness.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:34 Heb “and what proceeds out of my lips I will not alter.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:35 Or “lie to.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:36 Heb “and his throne like the sun before me.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:37 Heb “and a witness in the sky, secure.” Scholars have offered a variety of opinions as to the identity of the “witness” referr...

NET Notes: Psa 89:38 Heb “your anointed one.” The Hebrew phrase מְשִׁיחֶךָ (mÿshikhekha, ̶...

NET Notes: Psa 89:39 Heb “you dishonor [or “desecrate”] on the ground his crown.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:40 The king here represents the land and cities over which he rules.

NET Notes: Psa 89:41 Heb “all the passersby on the road.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:42 Heb “you have lifted up the right hand of his adversaries.” The idiom “the right hand is lifted up” refers to victorious milit...

NET Notes: Psa 89:43 Heb “and you have not caused him to stand in the battle.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:44 The Hebrew verb מָגַר (magar) occurs only here and perhaps in Ezek 21:17.

NET Notes: Psa 89:45 Heb “the days of his youth” (see as well Job 33:25).

NET Notes: Psa 89:46 Heb “How long, O Lord, will hide yourself forever?”

NET Notes: Psa 89:47 Heb “For what emptiness do you create all the sons of mankind?” In this context the term שָׁוְא (shava...

NET Notes: Psa 89:48 Heb “Who [is] the man [who] can live and not see death, [who] can deliver his life from the hand of Sheol?” The rhetorical question antici...

NET Notes: Psa 89:49 Heb “[which] you swore on oath to David by your faithfulness.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:50 Heb “my lifting up in my arms [or “against my chest”] all of the many, peoples.” The term רַבִּ&...

NET Notes: Psa 89:51 Heb “[by] which your enemies, O Lord, taunt, [by] which they taunt [at] the heels of your anointed one.”

NET Notes: Psa 89:52 Heb “surely and surely” (אָמֵן וְאָמֵן [’amen vÿ’...

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