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- I WILL sing of the mercy and loving-kindness of the Lord forever; with my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness from generation to generation.
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- For I have said, Mercy and loving-kindness shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness will You establish in the very heavens [unchangeable and perpetual].
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- [You have said] I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant,
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- Your Seed I will establish forever, and I will build up your throne for all generations. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! [Isa. 9:7; Luke 1:32, 33; Gal. 3:16]
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- Let heaven (the angels) praise Your wonders, O Lord, Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones (the holy angels).
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- For who in the heavens can be compared to the Lord? Who among the mighty [heavenly beings] can be likened to the Lord,
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- A God greatly feared and revered in the council of the holy (angelic) ones, and to be feared and worshipfully revered above all those who are round about Him?
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- O Lord God of hosts, who is a mighty one like unto You, O Lord? And Your faithfulness is round about You [an essential part of You at all times].
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- You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves arise, You still them.
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- You have broken Rahab (Egypt) in pieces; with Your mighty arm You have scattered Your enemies.
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- The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; the world and all that is in it, You have founded them.
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- The north and the south, You have created them; Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon joyously praise Your name.
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- You have a mighty arm; strong is Your hand, Your right hand is soaring high.
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- Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; mercy and loving-kindness and truth go before Your face.
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- Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are the people who know the joyful sound [who understand and appreciate the spiritual blessings symbolized by the feasts]; they walk, O Lord, in the light and favor of Your countenance!
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- In Your name they rejoice all the day, and in Your righteousness they are exalted.
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- For You are the glory of their strength [their proud adornment], and by Your favor our horn is exalted and we walk with uplifted faces!
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- For our shield belongs to the Lord, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
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- Once You spoke in a vision to Your devoted ones and said, I have endowed one who is mighty [a hero, giving him the power to help--to be a champion for Israel]; I have exalted one chosen from among the people.
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- I have found David My servant; with My holy oil have I anointed him, [Acts 13:22.]
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- With whom My hand shall be established and ever abide; My arm also shall strengthen him.
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- The enemy shall not exact from him or do him violence or outwit him, nor shall the wicked afflict and humble him.
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- I will beat down his foes before his face and smite those who hate him.
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- My faithfulness and My mercy and loving-kindness shall be with him, and in My name shall his horn be exalted [great power and prosperity shall be conferred upon him].
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- I will set his hand in control also on the [Mediterranean] Sea, and his right hand on the rivers [Euphrates with its tributaries].
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- He shall cry to Me, You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation!
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- Also I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. [Rev. 1:5.]
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- My mercy and loving-kindness will I keep for him forevermore, and My covenant shall stand fast and be faithful with him.
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- His Offspring also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. [Isa. 9:7; Gal. 3:16.]
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- If his children forsake My law and walk not in My ordinances,
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- If they break or profane My statutes and keep not My commandments,
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- Then will I punish their transgression with the rod [of chastisement], and their iniquity with stripes. [II Sam. 7:14.]
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- Nevertheless, My loving-kindness will I not break off from him, nor allow My faithfulness to fail [to lie and be false to him].
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- My covenant will I not break or profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips.
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- Once [for all] have I sworn by My holiness, which cannot be violated; I will not lie to David:
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- His Offspring shall endure forever, and his throne [shall continue] as the sun before Me. [Isa. 9:7; Gal. 3:16.]
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- It shall be established forever as the moon, the faithful witness in the heavens. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! [Rev. 1:5; 3:14.]
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- But [in apparent contradiction to all this] You [even You the faithful Lord] have cast off and rejected; You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.
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- You have despised and loathed and renounced the covenant with Your servant; You have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
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- You have broken down all his hedges and his walls; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
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- All who pass along the road spoil and rob him; he has become the scorn and reproach of his neighbors.
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- You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.
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- Moreover, You have turned back the edge of his sword and have not made him to stand in battle.
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- You have made his glory and splendor to cease and have hurled to the ground his throne.
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- The days of his youth have You shortened; You have covered him with shame. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
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- How long, O Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? How long shall Your wrath burn like fire?
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- O [earnestly] remember how short my time is and what a mere fleeting life mine is. For what emptiness, falsity, futility, and frailty You have created all men!
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- What man can live and shall not see death, or can deliver himself from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the place of the dead)? Selah [pause, and calmly consider that]!
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- Lord, where are Your former loving-kindnesses [shown in the reigns of David and Solomon], which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?
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- Remember, Lord, and earnestly imprint [on Your heart] the reproach of Your servants, scorned and insulted, how I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the many and mighty peoples,
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- With which Your enemies have taunted, O Lord, with which they have mocked the footsteps of Your anointed.
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- Blessed be the Lord forevermore! Amen and Amen.
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