{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/89","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-09-25T04:55:53.309Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":89,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":88,"nextChapter":90,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":52},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: your faithfulness shall you establish in the very heavens."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Your seed will I establish for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O LORD: your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For who in the heaven can be compared to the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the LORD?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like to you? or to your faithfulness round about you?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"You rule the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, you still them."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; you have scattered your enemies with your strong arm."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours: as for the world and the fullness thereof, you have founded them."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"The north and the south you have created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in your name."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"You have a mighty arm: strong is your hand, and high is your right hand."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Justice and judgment are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"In your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For you are the glory of their strength: and in your favor our horn shall be exalted."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For the LORD is our defense; and the Holy One of Israel is our king."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Then you spoke in vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help on one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"With whom my hand shall be established: my arm also shall strengthen him."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"The enemy shall not exact on him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"He shall cry to me, You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"My mercy will I keep for him for ever more, and my covenant shall stand fast with him."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David."},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me."},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah."},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been wroth with your anointed."},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground."},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strong holds to ruin."},{"verseNumber":41,"text":"All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbors."},{"verseNumber":42,"text":"You have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice."},{"verseNumber":43,"text":"You have also turned the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle."},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"You have made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground."},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"The days of his youth have you shortened: you have covered him with shame. Selah."},{"verseNumber":46,"text":"How long, LORD? will you hide yourself for ever? shall your wrath burn like fire?"},{"verseNumber":47,"text":"Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?"},{"verseNumber":48,"text":"What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah."},{"verseNumber":49,"text":"Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth?"},{"verseNumber":50,"text":"Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;"},{"verseNumber":51,"text":"With which your enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed."},{"verseNumber":52,"text":"Blessed be the LORD for ever more. Amen, and Amen."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 89 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Psalms 89](https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/89)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/89 (accessed 2026-09-25)."}}