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Psalms Chapter 89

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asv (asv) - eBible.org engASV USFM

1 For I am ready to fall,
2 And my sorrow is continually before me.
3 For I will declare mine iniquity;
4 I will be sorry for my sin.
5 But mine enemies are lively,
6 and are strong;
7 And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
8 They also that render evil for good
9 Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.
10 Forsake me not, O Jehovah:
11 O my God, be not far from me.
12 Make haste to help me,
13 O Lord, my salvation.
14 For the Chief Musician, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
15 I said, I will take heed to my ways,
16 That I sin not with my tongue:
17 I will keep my mouth with a bridle,
18 While the wicked is before me.
19 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good;
20 And my sorrow was stirred.
21 My heart was hot within me;
22 While I was musing the fire burned;
23 Then spake I with my tongue:
24 Jehovah, make me to know mine end,
25 And the measure of my days, what it is;
26 Let me know how frail I am.
27 Behold, thou hast made my days
28 as handbreadths;
29 And my life-time is as nothing before thee:
30 Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity.
31 [Selah
32 Surely every man walketh in a vain show;
33 Surely they are disquieted in vain:
34 He heapeth up
35 riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
36 And now, Lord, what wait I for?
37 My hope is in thee.
38 Deliver me from all my transgressions:
39 Make me not the reproach of the foolish.
40 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth;
41 Because thou didst it.
42 Remove thy stroke away from me:
43 I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
44 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity,
45 Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth:
46 Surely every man is vanity.
47 [Selah
48 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry;
49 Hold not thy peace at my tears:
50 For I am a stranger with thee,
51 A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
52 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength,

darby (darby) - eBible.org Darby 1890 plaintext

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

lxxbrent (lxxbrent) - Septuagint (Brenton 1851) eBible USFM

1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge in all generations.
2 Before the mountains existed, and [before] the earth and the world were formed, even from age to age, Thou art.
3 Turn not man back to [his] low place, whereas thou saidst, Return, ye sons of men?
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are as the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass.
6 In the morning let it flower, and pass away: in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up.
7 For we have perished in thine anger, and in thy wrath we have been troubled.
8 Thou hast set our transgressions before thee: our age is in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in thy wrath: our years have spun out their tale as a spider.
10 [As for] the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if [men should be] in strength, eighty years: and the greater part of them would be labour and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.
11 Who knows the power of thy wrath?
12 and [who knows how] to number [his days] because of the fear of thy wrath? So manifest thy right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart.
13 Return, O Lord, how long? and be intreated concerning thy servants.
14 We have been satisfied in the morning with thy mercy; and we did exult and rejoice:
15 let us rejoice in all our days, in return for the days wherein thou didst afflict us, the years wherein we saw evil.
16 And look upon thy servants, and upon thy works; and guide their children.
17 And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and do thou direct for us the works of our hands.

vul1914 (vul1914) - Vulgate 1914 UTF-8 (sacredbible.org)

1 Oratio Moysi hominis Dei. Domine, refugium factus es nobis: a generatione in generationem.
2 Priusquam montes fierent, aut formaretur terra, et orbis: a sæculo et usque in sæculum tu es Deus.
3 Ne avertas hominem in humilitatem: et dixisti: Convertimini filii hominum.
4 Quoniam mille anni ante oculos tuos, tamquam dies hesterna, quæ præteriit, Et custodia in nocte,
5 quæ pro nihilo habentur, eorum anni erunt.
6 Mane sicut herba transeat, mane floreat, et transeat: vespere decidat, induret, et arescat.
7 Quia defecimus in ira tua, et in furore tuo turbati sumus.
8 Posuisti iniquitates nostras in conspectu tuo: sæculum nostrum in illuminatione vultus tui.
9 Quoniam omnes dies nostri defecerunt: et in ira tua defecimus. Anni nostri sicut aranea meditabuntur:
10 dies annorum nostrorum in ipsis, septuaginta anni. Si autem in potentatibus octoginta anni: et amplius eorum, labor et dolor. Quoniam supervenit mansuetudo: et corripiemur.
11 Quis novit potestatem iræ tuæ: et præ timore tuo iram tuam
12 dinumerare? Dexteram tuam sic notam fac: et eruditos corde in sapientia.
13 Convertere Domine usquequo? et deprecabilis esto super servos tuos.
14 Repleti sumus mane misericordia tua: et exultavimus, et delectati sumus omnibus diebus nostris.
15 Lætati sumus pro diebus, quibus nos humiliasti: annis, quibus vidimus mala.
16 Respice in servos tuos, et in opera tua: et dirige filios eorum.
17 Et sit splendor Domini Dei nostri super nos, et opera manuum nostrarum dirige super nos: et opus manuum nostrarum dirige.

web (web) - WorldEnglish.Bible — CC0 modern update of ASV

1 A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of the LORD forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
2 I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”
3 “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,
4 ‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah.
5 The heavens will praise your wonders, LORD, your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
6 For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like the LORD,
7 a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?
8 LORD, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? LORD, your faithfulness is around you.
9 You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.
10 You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
11 The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours, the world and its fullness. You have founded them.
12 You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
13 You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
15 Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, LORD.
16 In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.
17 For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.
18 For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
19 Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.
20 I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,
21 with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.
22 No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.
23 I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.
24 But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.
25 I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.
26 He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
27 I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
28 I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.
29 I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
30 If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
31 if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;
32 then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
33 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
34 I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
35 Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.
36 His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.
37 It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.
38 But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.
39 You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
40 You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
41 All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
43 Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle.
44 You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.
45 You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.
46 How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
47 Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
48 What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
51 With which your enemies have mocked, LORD, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
52 Blessed be the LORD forever more. Amen, and Amen.

ylt (ylt) - Bible.com YLT98 plain UTF-8

1 An instruction, by Ethan the Ezrahite. Of the kind acts of Jehovah, to the age I sing, To all generations I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth,
2 For I said, `To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.'
3 I have made a covenant for My chosen, I have sworn to David My servant:
4 `Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah.
5 and the heavens confess Thy wonders, O Jehovah, Thy faithfulness also <FI>is<Fi> in an assembly of holy ones.
6 For who in the sky, Compareth himself to Jehovah? Is like to Jehovah among sons of the mighty?
7 God is very terrible, In the secret counsel of His holy ones, And fearful over all surrounding Him.
8 O Jehovah, God of Hosts, Who <FI>is<Fi> like Thee--a strong Jah? And Thy faithfulness <FI>is<Fi> round about Thee.
9 Thou <FI>art<Fi> ruler over the pride of the sea, In the lifting up of its billows Thou dost restrain them.
10 Thou hast bruised Rahab, as one wounded. With the arm of Thy strength Thou hast scattered Thine enemies.
11 Thine <FI>are<Fi> the heavens--the earth also <FI>is<Fi> Thine, The habitable world and its fulness, Thou hast founded them.
12 North and south Thou hast appointed them, Tabor and Hermon in Thy name do sing.
13 Thou hast an arm with might, Strong is Thy hand--high Thy right hand.
14 Righteousness and judgment <FI>Are<Fi> the fixed place of Thy throne, Kindness and truth go before Thy face.
15 O the happiness of the people knowing the shout, O Jehovah, in the light of Thy face they walk habitually.
16 In Thy name they rejoice all the day, And in Thy righteousness they are exalted,
17 For the beauty of their strength <FI>art<Fi> Thou, And in Thy good will is our horn exalted,
18 For of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> our shield, And of the Holy One of Israel our king.
19 Then Thou hast spoken in vision, To Thy saint, yea, Thou sayest, I have placed help upon a mighty one, Exalted a chosen one out of the people,
20 I have found David My servant, With My holy oil I have anointed him.
21 With whom My hand is established, My arm also doth strengthen him.
22 An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not.
23 And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague,
24 And My faithfulness and kindness <FI>are<Fi> with him, And in My name is his horn exalted.
25 And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand.
26 He proclaimeth me: `Thou <FI>art<Fi> my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.'
27 I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth.
28 To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant <FI>is<Fi> stedfast with him.
29 And I have set his seed for ever, And his throne as the days of the heavens.
30 If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;
31 If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep,
32 I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity,
33 And My kindness I break not from him, Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness.
34 I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.
35 Once I have sworn by My holiness, I lie not to David,
36 His seed is to the age, And his throne <FI>is<Fi> as the sun before Me,
37 As the moon it is established--to the age, And the witness in the sky is stedfast. Selah.
38 And Thou, Thou hast cast off, and dost reject, Thou hast shown Thyself wroth With Thine anointed,
39 Hast rejected the covenant of Thy servant, Thou hast polluted to the earth his crown,
40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges, Thou hast made his fenced places a ruin.
41 Spoiled him have all passing by the way, He hath been a reproach to his neighbours,
42 Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries, Thou hast caused all his enemies to rejoice.
43 Also--Thou turnest back the sharpness of his sword, And hast not established him in battle,
44 Hast caused <FI>him<Fi> to cease from his brightness, And his throne to the earth hast cast down.
45 Thou hast shortened the days of his youth, Hast covered him over <FI>with<Fi> shame. Selah.
46 Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire?
47 Remember, I pray Thee, what <FI>is<Fi> life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?
48 Who <FI>is<Fi> the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.
49 Where <FI>are<Fi> Thy former kindnesses, O Lord. Thou hast sworn to David in Thy faithfulness,
50 Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Thy servants, I have borne in my bosom all the strivings of the peoples,
51 Wherewith Thine enemies reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached The steps of Thine anointed.
52 Blessed <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah to the age. Amen, and amen!

Explanations by Age Level

Explain Like I'm 5

A long, long time ago, there was nothing at all - no earth, no sky, no animals, no people. It was all dark and empty. But God was there! God is so powerful that He can make anything just by speaking. So God said "Let there be light!" and BOOM! There was light everywhere! God saw that the light was beautiful and good. He called the light "day" and the darkness "night." This was the very first day when God started making our wonderful world!

Explain Like I'm 10

Before anything existed - no planets, stars, or life - God decided to create the universe. The earth started out as a dark, empty place covered with water. But God's Spirit was there, ready to bring order and beauty to everything. When God spoke and said "Let there be light," light immediately appeared because God's words have incredible power. God looked at the light and was pleased with what He had made. He organized time by separating light (day) from darkness (night), creating the first 24-hour period. This shows us that God is organized and purposeful in everything He does.

Explain Like I'm 15

Genesis 1:1-5 establishes fundamental theological truths about God and creation. The Hebrew word "bara" (created) indicates creation from nothing (ex nihilo), demonstrating God's absolute sovereignty and power. The phrase "without form and void" (tohu wa-bohu) describes a state of chaos that God transforms into order. The Spirit of God "hovering" or "brooding" over the waters suggests active, caring involvement in creation. The creation of light before the sun (created on day 4) indicates that God Himself is the ultimate source of light and energy. The establishment of day and night creates the framework of time, showing that God operates within orderly patterns while transcending them. This passage refutes both atheistic materialism and pantheism, establishing that God is both transcendent (separate from creation) and immanent (actively involved in it).