Psalms 89:49

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Psalms 89:47–51 · Berean Standard Bible

47 Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

48 What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

49 Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?

50 Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—

51 how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!

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Psalms 77:9

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah

Psalms 77:10

So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

Isaiah 63:7

I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us— the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.

Isaiah 63:8

For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.

Isaiah 63:9

In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

Isaiah 63:11

Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,

Isaiah 63:12

who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,

Isaiah 63:13

who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble?

Isaiah 63:14

Like cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name.

Isaiah 63:15

Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.

Psalms 89:3

You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:

Psalms 89:4

‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah

Psalms 89:35

Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness— I will not lie to David—

Psalms 54:5

He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.

Psalms 132:11

The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.

Psalms 132:12

If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”

2 Samuel 3:9

May God punish Abner, and ever so severely, if I do not do for David what the LORD has sworn to him:

2 Samuel 7:15

But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I moved out of your way.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.

Hebrews 7:21

but Jesus became a priest with an oath by the One who said to Him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’”