Psalms 89:28

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will always preserve my faithful love for him,and my covenant with him will endure.

Hebrew Names Version
I will keep my lovingkindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him.

King James Version
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

English Standard Version
My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.

New Century Version
My love will watch over him forever, and my agreement with him will never end.

New English Translation
I will always extend my loyal love to him, and my covenant with him is secure.

Amplified Bible
"My lovingkindness I will keep for him forevermore, And My covenant will be confirmed to him.

New American Standard Bible
"I will maintain My favor for him forever, And My covenant shall be confirmed to him.

World English Bible
I will keep my lovingkindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
My mercie will I keepe for him for euermore, and my couenant shall stande fast with him.

Legacy Standard Bible
My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever,And My covenant shall be confirmed to him.

Berean Standard Bible
I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.

Contemporary English Version
My love for him will last, and my agreement with him will never be broken.

Complete Jewish Bible
I will give him the position of firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Darby Translation
My loving-kindness will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him;

Easy-to-Read Version
My love will protect him forever. My agreement with him will never end.

George Lamsa Translation
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

Good News Translation
I will always keep my promise to him, and my covenant with him will last forever.

Lexham English Bible
Forever I will keep my loyal love for him, and my covenant will be reliable for him.

Literal Translation
I will keep My mercy for him forever, and My covenant shall hold fast with him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And I wil make him my firstborne, hyer then the kinges of the earth.

American Standard Version
My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him.

Bible in Basic English
I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I also will appoint him first-born, the highest of the kings of the earth.

King James Version (1611)
My mercy will I keepe for him for euermore: and my couenant shall stand fast with him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
My mercy wyll I kepe for hym euermore: and my couenaunt shal stand fast with hym.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I will keep my mercy for him for ever, and my covenant shall be firm with him.

English Revised Version
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
With outen ende Y schal kepe my merci to hym; and my testament feithful to him.

Update Bible Version
My loving-kindness I will keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him.

Webster's Bible Translation
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

New King James Version
My mercy I will keep for him forever, And My covenant shall stand firm with him.

New Living Translation
I will love him and be kind to him forever; my covenant with him will never end.

New Life Bible
I will keep My loving-kindness for him forever. And My agreement with him will be made strong.

New Revised Standard
Forever I will keep my steadfast love for him, and my covenant with him will stand firm.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Age-abidingly, will I keep for him my lovingkindness, And, my covenant, hath been made steadfast for him;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(88-29) I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him.

Revised Standard Version
My steadfast love I will keep for him for ever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.

Young's Literal Translation
To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant [is] stedfast with him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever, And My covenant shall be confirmed to him.

Contextual Overview

¹⁹A long time ago you spoke in a vision, you spoke to your faithful beloved: "I've crowned a hero, I chose the best I could find; I found David, my servant, poured holy oil on his head, And I'll keep my hand steadily on him, yes, I'll stick with him through thick and thin. No enemy will get the best of him, no scoundrel will do him in. I'll weed out all who oppose him, I'll clean out all who hate him. I'm with him for good and I'll love him forever; I've set him on high—he's riding high! I've put Ocean in his one hand, River in the other; he'll call out, ‘Oh, my Father—my God, my Rock of Salvation!' Yes, I'm setting him apart as the First of the royal line, High King over all of earth's kings. I'll preserve him eternally in my love, I'll faithfully do all I so solemnly promised. I'll guarantee his family tree and underwrite his rule. If his children refuse to do what I tell them, if they refuse to walk in the way I show them, If they spit on the directions I give them and tear up the rules I post for them— I'll rub their faces in the dirt of their rebellion and make them face the music. But I'll never throw them out, never abandon or disown them. Do you think I'd withdraw my holy promise? or take back words I'd already spoken? I've given my word, my whole and holy word; do you think I would lie to David? His family tree is here for good, his sovereignty as sure as the sun, Dependable as the phases of the moon, inescapable as weather."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

mercy: 2 Samuel 7:15, 2 Samuel 7:16, Isaiah 54:10, Isaiah 55:3, Acts 13:32-34

covenant: Psalms 89:34, Psalms 111:5, Psalms 111:9, 2 Samuel 23:5, Jeremiah 33:20, Jeremiah 33:21

Reciprocal: Exodus 39:8 - General Deuteronomy 11:21 - as the days 1 Kings 9:5 - I will establish 1 Chronicles 28:7 - Moreover 2 Chronicles 6:14 - keepest covenant 2 Chronicles 7:18 - as I have 2 Chronicles 21:7 - because Psalms 55:20 - broken Psalms 74:20 - Have Psalms 89:24 - But my Psalms 89:45 - The

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My mercy will I keep for him for evermore,.... That is, for his mystical body, his church and people; for whom stores of mercy are kept with him, to be laid out in their regeneration, pardon, salvation, and eternal life; for to them the mercy of God is from everlasting to everlasting, Psalms 103:17, unless this is to be understood of the "grace" and "kindness" g of God, as the word may be rendered; his free favour and love to Christ, which always continues; for as he was always his dearly beloved Son, that lay in his bosom from eternity, so he continued, throughout his state, of humiliation, his well beloved, in whom he was well pleased, and still is, and ever will:

and my covenant shall stand fast with him; being made with him as the head and representative of his people, it remains, and will remain, sure, firm, and immoveable; its blessings are "sure mercies", and its promises are all "yea and amen in Christ": the stability of it, and of all that is in it, is owing to its being made with him, and being in his hands, who is the surety, Mediator, and messenger of it.

g חסדי "bonitatem meam", Musculus, Tigurine version; "benignitatem meam", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "gratiam meam", Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My mercy will I keep for him for evermore - I will not withdraw my favor from him, nor from his posterity, Psalms 89:33-36. In him, and in his Great Descendant, the throne shall be established forever. This dominion will not be like the changing dynasties of this world, but will be perpetual and eternal.

And my covenant shall stand fast with him - See 2 Samuel 7:14-16; 2 Samuel 23:5. It shall be firm, or established with him and his family.