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Literal Standard Version

Psalms 89:2

For I said, "Kindness is built for all time, || The heavens! You establish Your faithfulness in them."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   God;   God Continued...;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Faithfulness of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ethan;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Covenant;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ethan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Kindness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethan;   Ezrahite;   Joy;   Lovingkindness;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Built;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Builder;   Faithful;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aphraates, the Persian Sage;   Beer, Aaron;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 27;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For I will declare,“Faithful love is built up forever;you establish your faithfulness in the heavens.”
Hebrew Names Version
I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them."
King James Version
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
English Standard Version
For I said, "Steadfast love will be built up forever; in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness."
New Century Version
I will say, "Your love continues forever; your loyalty goes on and on like the sky."
New English Translation
For I say, "Loyal love is permanently established; in the skies you set up your faithfulness."
Amplified Bible
For I have said, "Goodness and lovingkindness will be built up forever; In the heavens [unchangeable and majestic] You will establish Your faithfulness."
New American Standard Bible
For I have said, "Graciousness will be built up forever; In the heavens You will establish Your faithfulness."
World English Bible
I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them."
Geneva Bible (1587)
For I said, Mercie shalbe set vp for euer: thy trueth shalt thou stablish in ye very heauens.
Legacy Standard Bible
For I have said, "Lovingkindness will be built up forever;In the heavens You will establish Your faithfulness."
Berean Standard Bible
For I have said, "Loving devotion is built up forever; in the heavens You establish Your faithfulness."
Contemporary English Version
I will tell them, "God's love can always be trusted, and his faithfulness lasts as long as the heavens."
Complete Jewish Bible
I will sing about Adonai 's acts of grace forever, with my mouth proclaim your faithfulness to all generations;
Darby Translation
For I said, Loving-kindness shall be built up for ever; in the very heavens wilt thou establish thy faithfulness.
Easy-to-Read Version
I will say, "Your faithful love will last forever. Your loyalty is like the sky—there is no end to it!"
George Lamsa Translation
For I have said, The world shall be built up with mercy; thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
Good News Translation
I know that your love will last for all time, that your faithfulness is as permanent as the sky.
Lexham English Bible
For I say, "Forever your loyal love is built up. The heavens you have established with your faithfulness in them."
Literal Translation
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever; You shall establish Your faithfulness in the heavens.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For I haue sayde: mercy shal be set vp for euer, thy faithfulnesse shalt thou stablish in the heauens.
American Standard Version
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.
Bible in Basic English
For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever; to all generations will I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth.
King James Version (1611)
For I haue said, Mercie shall bee built vp for euer: thy faithfulnesse shalt thou establish in the very heauens.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For I sayde, mercy shall for euer endure: thou hast established thy trueth in the heauens.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For thou hast said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy truth shall be established in the heavens.
English Revised Version
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thou seidist, With outen ende merci schal be bildid in heuenes; thi treuthe schal be maad redi in tho.
Update Bible Version
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness you will establish in the very heavens.
Webster's Bible Translation
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.
New King James Version
For I have said, "Mercy shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness You shall establish in the very heavens."
New Living Translation
Your unfailing love will last forever. Your faithfulness is as enduring as the heavens.
New Life Bible
For I said, "Loving-kindness will be built up forever. You will make known how faithful You are in the heavens."
New Revised Standard
I declare that your steadfast love is established forever; your faithfulness is as firm as the heavens.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For I said, To times age-abiding, shall lovingkindness be built up, As for the heavens, thou wilt establish thy faithfulness therein.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(88-3) For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them.
Revised Standard Version
For thy steadfast love was established for ever, thy faithfulness is firm as the heavens.
Young's Literal Translation
For I said, `To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For I have said, "Lovingkindness will be built up forever; In the heavens You will establish Your faithfulness."

Contextual Overview

1AN INSTRUCTION OF ETHAN THE EZRAHITE. Of the kind acts of YHWH, I sing for all time, || From generation to generation I make known Your faithfulness with my mouth, 2For I said, "Kindness is built for all time, || The heavens! You establish Your faithfulness in them."3I have made a covenant for My chosen, || I have sworn to My servant David: 4"Even for all time I establish your seed, || And have built your throne to generation and generation." Selah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Mercy: Psalms 36:5, Psalms 103:17, Nehemiah 1:5, Nehemiah 9:17, Nehemiah 9:31, Luke 1:50, Ephesians 1:6, Ephesians 1:7

faithfulness: Psalms 89:5, Psalms 89:37, Psalms 119:89, Psalms 146:6, Numbers 23:19, Matthew 24:35, Hebrews 6:18

Reciprocal: Psalms 57:10 - For Psalms 89:14 - mercy Psalms 89:24 - But my Psalms 92:2 - show Psalms 97:6 - The heavens Psalms 100:5 - and his truth Psalms 103:11 - as the Psalms 108:4 - thy mercy Psalms 115:1 - for thy mercy Psalms 119:90 - unto all generations Psalms 138:2 - and praise Proverbs 29:14 - king Isaiah 16:5 - in mercy Isaiah 55:9 - General Jeremiah 31:35 - which giveth Jeremiah 31:37 - If Lamentations 3:23 - great John 1:17 - grace Acts 13:34 - the sure 1 Thessalonians 5:24 - Faithful 1 John 3:1 - what

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I have said,.... That is, in his heart he had said, he had thought of it, was assured of it, strongly concluded it, from the Spirit and word of God; he believed it, and therefore he spoke it; having it from the Lord, it was all one as if he had spoke it:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I have said - The Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate render this, “Thou hast said,” which is more in accordance with what the connection seems to demand; but the Hebrew will not admit of this construction. The true meaning seems to be, that the psalmist had said; that is, he had said in his mind; he had firmly believed; he had so received it as a truth that it might be spoken of as firmly settled, or as an indisputable reality. It was in his mind one of the things whose truthfulness did not admit of a doubt.

Mercy shall be built up for ever - The mercy referred to; the mercy manifested in the promise made to David. The idea is, that the promise would be fully carried out or verified. It would not be like the foundation of a building, which, after being laid, was abandoned; it would be as if the building, for which the foundation was designed, were carried up and completed. It would not be a forsaken, half-finished edifice, but an edifice fully erected.

Thy faithfulness shalt thou establish - In the matter referred to - the promise made to David.

In the very heavens - literally, “The heavens - thou wilt establish thy faithfulness in them.” That is the heavens - the heavenly bodies - so regular, so fixed, so enduring, are looked upon as the emblem of stability. The psalmist brings them thus before his mind, and he says that God had, as it were, made his promise a part of the very heavens; he had given to his faithfulness a place among the most secure, and fixed, and settled objects in nature. The sun in its regular rising; the stars in their certain course; the constellations, the same from age to age, were an emblem of the stability and security of the promises of God. Compare Jeremiah 33:20-21.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 89:2. Mercy shall be built up for ever — God's goodness is the foundation on which his mercy rests; and from that source, and on that foundation, acts of mercy shall flow and be built up for ever and ever.

Thy faithfulness shalt thou establish — What thou hast promised to do to the children of men on earth, thou dost register in heaven, and thy promise shall never fail.


 
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