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Speaker 1: You're listening to the chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm
Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're in Psalm eighty nine and
Speaker 1: we'll be reading from the English Standard version a mass
Speaker 1: skille of Ethan the Ezra Height. I will sing of
Speaker 1: the steadfast love of the Lord forever. With my mouth,
Speaker 1: I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. For
Speaker 1: I said, steadfast love will be built up forever in
Speaker 1: the heavens. You will establish your faithfulness. You have said,
Speaker 1: I have made a covenant with my chosen one. I
Speaker 1: have sworn to David, my servant. I will establish your
Speaker 1: offspring forever and build your throne for all generations. Saylah.
Speaker 1: Let the heavens praise your wonders, Oh Lord, your faithfulness
Speaker 1: in the assembly of the Holy Ones. For who in
Speaker 1: the skies can be compared to the Lord, who among
Speaker 1: the heavenly beings is like the Lord, a god greatly
Speaker 1: to be feared in the counsel of the Holy Ones,
Speaker 1: and awesome above all who are around him, O, Lord,
Speaker 1: God of Hosts, who is mighty as you are O Lord,
Speaker 1: with your faithfulness. All around you, You rule the raging
Speaker 1: of the sea. When its waves rise, you still them.
Speaker 1: You crushed Rayhab like a carcass. You scattered your enemies
Speaker 1: with your mighty arm. The heavens are yours. The earth
Speaker 1: also is yours. The world and all that is in it.
Speaker 1: You have founded them, the north and the south. You
Speaker 1: have created them. Tabor and Hermit, joyously praise your name.
Speaker 1: You have a mighty arm. Strong is your hand, Hi,
Speaker 1: your right hand. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of
Speaker 1: your throne. Steadfast, love and faithfulness go before you. Blessed
Speaker 1: are the people who know the festal shout, who walk,
Speaker 1: O Lord, in the light of your face, who exalt
Speaker 1: in your name all the day and in your righteousness,
Speaker 1: are exalted. For you are the glory of their strength.
Speaker 1: By your favor. Our horn is exalted, for our shield
Speaker 1: belongs to the Lord, our King, to the Holy One
Speaker 1: of Israel of old. You spoke in a vision to
Speaker 1: your Godly One and said, I have granted help to
Speaker 1: one who is mighty. I have exalted one chosen from
Speaker 1: the people. I have found David my servant. With my
Speaker 1: holy oil. I have anointed him so that My hand
Speaker 1: shall be established with him. My arm also shall strengthen him.
Speaker 1: The enemy shall not outwit him, the wicked shall not
Speaker 1: humble him. I will crush his foes before him, and
Speaker 1: strike down those who hate him. My faithfulness and my
Speaker 1: steadfast love shall be with him, and in my name
Speaker 1: shall his horn be exalted. I will set his hand
Speaker 1: on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.
Speaker 1: He shall cry to me, you are my Father, my God,
Speaker 1: and the rock of my salvation. And I will make
Speaker 1: him the first born, the highest of the kings of
Speaker 1: the earth. My steadfast love I will keep for him forever,
Speaker 1: and my covenant will stand firm for him. I will
Speaker 1: establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days
Speaker 1: of the heavens. If his children forsake my law and
Speaker 1: do not walk according to my rules, if they violate
Speaker 1: my statutes and do not keep my commandments, then I
Speaker 1: will transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.
Speaker 1: But I will not remove from him my steadfast love
Speaker 1: or be false to my faithfulness. I will not violate
Speaker 1: my covenant or alter the word that went forth from
Speaker 1: my lips once for all I have sworn by my
Speaker 1: holiness I will not lie to David. His offspring shall
Speaker 1: endure forever his throne as long as the sun before me,
Speaker 1: Like the moon, it shall be established forever, a faithful
Speaker 1: witness in the skies. Seilah. But now you have cast
Speaker 1: off and rejected. You are full of wrath against your anointed.
Speaker 1: You have renounced the covenant with your servant. You have
Speaker 1: defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all
Speaker 1: his walls. You have laid his strongholds in ruins. All
Speaker 1: who pass by plunder him. He has become the scorn
Speaker 1: of his neighbors. You have exalted the right hand of
Speaker 1: his foes. You have made all his enemies rejoice. You
Speaker 1: have also turned back the edge of his sword. And
Speaker 1: you have not made him stand in battle. You have
Speaker 1: made his splendor to cease, and cast his throne to
Speaker 1: the ground. You have cut short the days of his youth.
Speaker 1: You have covered him with shame. Seilah. How long, o Lord,
Speaker 1: will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath
Speaker 1: burn like fire? Remember how short my time is? For
Speaker 1: what vanity you have created all the children of man?
Speaker 1: What man can live and never see death? Who can
Speaker 1: deliver his soul from the power of shield Sailah. Lord,
Speaker 1: Where is your steadfast love of old, which, by your
Speaker 1: faithfulness you swore to David. Oh Lord, how your servants
Speaker 1: are mocked, and how I bear in my heart the
Speaker 1: insults of all the many nations with which your enemies mock, O, Lord,
Speaker 1: with which they mocked the footsteps of your anointed. Blessed
Speaker 1: be the Lord forever. Amen and Amen, let's pray. Lord.
Speaker 1: We thank you for your word, and we thank you
Speaker 1: for the privilege of being able to look at this
Speaker 1: psalm together today. And we thank you Lord for the
Speaker 1: things that you promised to David that you ultimately fulfilled
Speaker 1: in your son Jesus Christ. You made a covenant with
Speaker 1: your chosen one. You swore to David, your servant, that
Speaker 1: you would establish his offspring forever and build his throne
Speaker 1: for all generations. And we know that this was fulfilled
Speaker 1: through your son Jesus Christ, one with you, who came
Speaker 1: to this earth and took on flesh and was born
Speaker 1: as a descendant of David and rules and reigns forever,
Speaker 1: and all the nations will bow to him. Lord. We're
Speaker 1: grateful for the fact that you keep your word, and
Speaker 1: that when you make promises you fulfill them. So we're grateful,
Speaker 1: Lord for having seen a partial fulfillment of these things
Speaker 1: already in the first coming of your son Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: And we're grateful that we have the privilege to look
Speaker 1: forward to the ultimate fulfillment of all the things you
Speaker 1: promised in this particular Psalm. So we're grateful for all
Speaker 1: these things, Lord, and we thank you for your love
Speaker 1: for us, and we thank you as well for your
Speaker 1: presence with us today. We commit this day to your care,
Speaker 1: and we pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.