Psalms 89:28
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
KJV
My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
ASV
אַף אָ֭נִי בְּכ֣וֹר אֶתְּנֵ֑/הוּ עֶ֝לְי֗וֹן לְ/מַלְכֵי אָֽרֶץ
Hebrew
To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant is stedfast with him.
YLT
I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֲנִ֥י
'ny
pronoun · 862×
אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
אַף
'p
adverb · 133×
בְּכ֣וֹר
bkvr
noun · 118×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
מֶֽלֶךְ
mlk
noun · 2518×
עֶלְי֔וֹן
'lyvn
adjective · 51×
Covenant
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
'I have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sworn unto David My servant: Thy seed will I establish forever, and build up thy throne to all generations.' See Ps. lxxxix. 3-4. God swore to David that his seed would sit upon his throne forever. And this is not fulfilled in any of David's natural descendants, for their kingdom ended with the Babylonian captivity and was never re…
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 9:5 — Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
- 2Chr 6:14 — And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
- 2Chr 21:7 — Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
- 2Sam 7:15 — But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
- 2Sam 23:5 — Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to gro
- Acts 13:32 — And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
- Deut 11:21 — That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
- Isa 55:3 — Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Isa 55:3 — Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Jer 33:20 — Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
- Ps 55:20 — He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
- Ps 74:20 — Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
- Ps 89:3 — I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
- Ps 89:24 — But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.