Psalm 89

¹A Psalm of David. I will sing of Your loving devotion and justice; to You, O Lord, I will sing praises.

⁸O Lord God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty Lord, Your faithfulness surrounds You.

⁹⁰Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures.

²³They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!

³³But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.

⁵Your loving devotion, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.

⁵Your loving devotion, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.

³¹But in Your great compassion, You did not put an end to them; nor did You forsake them, for You are a gracious and compassionate God.

¹⁷But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the Lord extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—

¹⁹God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

¹⁸Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

⁵The heavens praise Your wonders, O Lord—Your faithfulness as well—in the assembly of the holy ones.

¹¹The Lord swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.

¹⁰And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning

¹¹and have done since the day I appointed judges over My people Israel. I will give you rest from all your enemies. The Lord declares to you that He Himself will establish a house for you.

¹⁶‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

²¹but 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.’”

³⁰But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

²⁸I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.

³²He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,

³³and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”

¹²And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

¹³He will build a house for My Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

⁶For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

⁷Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.

¹²If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”

⁹Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,

¹⁰that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

³regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,

⁴and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

⁶The heavens proclaim His righteousness; all the peoples see His glory.

²³Sing for joy, O heavens, for the Lord has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.

¹⁰And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

¹¹And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. And they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God,

⁷and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels

⁶And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah

⁸O Lord, there is none like You among the gods, nor any works like Yours.

⁶There is none like You, O Lord. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.

¹⁹Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?

¹¹Who among the gods is like You, O Lord? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?

⁵Who is like the Lord our God, the One enthroned on high?

¹A Psalm of David. Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

²How awesome is the Lord Most High, the great King over all the earth!

⁷You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?

⁸From heaven You pronounced judgment, and the earth feared and was still

²⁸Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.

²⁹“For our God is a consuming fire.”

⁷Who would not fear You, O King of nations? This is Your due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.

³and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

⁴Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”

²⁸Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

¹⁹Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?

¹⁷“Oh, Lord God! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!

²There is no one holy like the Lord. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.

²⁵“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

²⁶Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

⁵Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.

⁸Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

⁷You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.

²⁵For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.

²⁶They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths; their courage melted in their anguish.

⁴¹Overwhelmed with fear, they asked one another, “Who is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”

³⁹Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea. “Silence!” He commanded. “Be still!” And the wind died down, and it was perfectly calm.

²⁴Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves. But Jesus was sleeping.

²⁵The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”

³The floodwaters have risen, O Lord; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.

⁴Above the roar of many waters—the mighty breakers of the sea—the Lord on high is majestic.

⁴“I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me—along with Philistia, Tyre, and Cush—when I say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’”

³⁰Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.

⁶Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.

¹Behold, the Lord lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—

¹⁹But I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go unless a mighty hand compels him.

²⁰So I will stretch out My hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders I will perform among them. And after that, he will release you.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.

¹¹Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.

¹In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

¹⁶The highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth He has given to mankind.

¹A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.

²For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.

²⁶for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”

¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.

⁷He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

¹Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward:

²²The border reached Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, and ended at the Jordan. There were sixteen cities, along with their villages.

⁸At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon—

⁹which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—

⁶She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the Lord, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun.

³It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the Lord has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.

¹¹God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,

¹⁰You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

³⁴But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.

³⁵All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

¹³And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’

²Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.

¹²Wicked behavior is detestable for kings, for a throne is established through righteousness.

⁶Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.

⁷You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.

¹⁷The Lord is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.

¹³Righteousness will go before Him to prepare the way for His steps.

⁴He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

³For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.

⁵Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the Lord.

⁶Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O Lord.

³when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,

¹A Psalm of thanksgiving. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.

²⁸You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’

⁴Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

⁹and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

⁷The voice of the Lord strikes with flames of fire.

²¹God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

¹²North and south You created; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.

⁴⁷and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior!

¹⁰“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”

¹⁰But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.

¹⁴He has raised up a horn for His people, the praise of all His saints, of Israel, a people near to Him. Hallelujah!

¹⁰Those who oppose the Lord will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”

³⁰It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

³¹Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”

⁹He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.

⁹The nobles of the nations have assembled as the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.

²²So I will praise You with the harp for Your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praise to You with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

²²For the Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King. It is He who will save us.

⁴Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

⁶Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”

¹He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

²I will say to the Lord, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

¹⁸One of the servants answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the harp. He is a mighty man of valor, a warrior, eloquent and handsome, and the Lord is with him.”

³⁴Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes.

⁶For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

⁶Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

⁷but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.

⁸Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the Lord of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.

⁹I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like that of the greatest in the land.

⁹But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

¹⁰In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.

¹²So Jesse sent for his youngest son and brought him in. He was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the Lord said, “Rise and anoint him, for he is the one.”

¹³So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.

¹The Spirit of the Lord God is on Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

²to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,

¹Now the Lord said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.”

³⁴For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.

²²After removing Saul, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart; he will carry out My will in its entirety.’

¹“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.

³²It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way clear.

³³He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.

¹⁰Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

¹³Mighty is Your arm; strong is Your hand. Your right hand is exalted.

²⁴I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and place My sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, who will groan before him like a mortally wounded man.

²⁵I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king, but Pharaoh’s arms will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I place My sword in the hand of Babylon’s king, and he wields it against the land of Egypt.

¹⁵the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.

¹⁶Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

¹⁰And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning

⁹And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning

¹Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

²After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.

¹²While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

³Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.

⁹I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like that of the greatest in the land.

⁴⁰You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath me.

⁴¹You have made my enemies retreat before me; I destroyed those who hated me.

¹Now the war between the house of Saul and the house of David was protracted. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.

⁴⁰You have made my enemies retreat before me; I destroyed those who hated me.

¹After the king had settled into his palace and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies around him,

⁸Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.

⁹You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the Lord will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.

²⁰For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.

¹⁶They rejoice in Your name all day long, and in Your righteousness they exult.

¹⁷For You are the glory of their strength, and by Your favor our horn is exalted.

¹⁴“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.

⁶I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

³³But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.

¹At that time Hannah prayed: “My heart rejoices in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, for I rejoice in Your salvation.

¹¹It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.

⁸May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.

⁹May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.

²¹And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

¹⁵Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”

⁸Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.

¹⁴I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

⁴⁷The Lord lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted—

¹Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!

⁶He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress; I will not be shaken.

⁷My salvation and my honor rest on God, my strong rock; my refuge is in God.

⁴²A second time He went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, may Your will be done.”

²He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.

¹⁵The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

¹⁸And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.

²⁹For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

¹⁶And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: KING OF KINGS AND Lord OF LORDS.

⁷I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the Lord: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.

¹¹May all kings bow down to him and all nations serve him.

³Incline 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.

³²And now we proclaim to you the good news: What God promised our fathers

³³He has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: ‘You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.’

²⁰“This is what the Lord says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,

²¹then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.

¹⁰Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

¹⁵But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

¹⁶Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, and your throne will be established forever.”

³³But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.

³⁴I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.

⁴‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah

²¹so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to give your fathers.

⁷Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.

³⁶his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,

⁴⁴In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever.

³²He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David,

³³and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”

¹⁴I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

⁹As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

⁵³Rage has taken hold of me because of the wicked who reject Your law.

⁴Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.

¹²If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”

²For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my directive.

²⁰My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.

¹⁴I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

¹¹My son, do not reject the discipline of the Lord, and do not loathe His rebuke;

¹²for the Lord disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.

⁶For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”

⁷Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?

³⁹Because of this, I will humble David’s descendants—but not forever.’”

¹⁴Then the Lord raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.

²“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

⁸In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord your Redeemer.

⁹“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.

¹⁵But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

³¹For the Lord will not cast us off forever.

³²Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

¹⁸Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

²⁰“This is what the Lord says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,

²¹then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.

²⁹Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”

¹⁹God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

³⁵Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

¹⁷Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.

⁶“Because I, the Lord, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.

²⁹For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.

²¹For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.

¹¹The Lord swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.

¹³When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,

²in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

¹⁷So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.

²The Lord God has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

⁴The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

⁵May they fear him as long as the sun shines, as long as the moon remains, through all generations.

²⁹I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.

²¹“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the Lord. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the Lord.

¹⁷May his name endure forever; may his name continue as long as the sun shines. In him may all nations be blessed; may they call him blessed.

³³and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”

⁴‘I will establish your offspring forever and build up your throne for all generations.’” Selah

³⁵Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the Lord of Hosts is His name:

³⁶“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the Lord, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”

¹⁹He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.

¹⁴And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.

¹⁵And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.

¹³I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

¹⁴Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

⁹“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.

¹⁰Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

⁷May the righteous flourish in his days and prosperity abound until the moon is no more.

⁹As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

¹⁹When the Lord saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

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

⁴⁰So the anger of the Lord burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

⁷Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the Lord of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.

²¹O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.

¹⁶The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

⁷They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.

²⁸So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”

³⁴I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.

³⁵Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness—I will not lie to David—

⁷Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”

¹²The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.

¹²Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

²Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.

⁵The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.

⁵Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

⁶I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

¹⁰Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

²In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem

³with 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and countless troops who came with him out of Egypt—Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.

⁴We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

¹⁷Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”

⁹I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.

³⁷You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

¹⁶O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.

¹⁰You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.

¹¹You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.

¹⁰And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.

⁶You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

¹⁷And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.

²⁰Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

²⁵The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

²⁵And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

⁸Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has power to help and power to overthrow.”

³⁶As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.

³⁷They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.

⁴²Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the Lord is not among you.

⁴⁵Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.

⁸O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?

⁹When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”

⁴So about three thousand men went up, but they fled before the men of Ai.

⁵And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.

¹⁶When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,

¹⁷but Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.

²¹And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed.

²²“The glory has departed from Israel,” she said, “for the ark of God has been captured.”

²⁵In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

²⁶He seized the treasures of the house of the Lord and of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields that Solomon had made.

³Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.

⁴He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

²⁰I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell—the horn whose appearance was more imposing than the others, with eyes and with a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.

²¹As I watched, this horn was waging war against the saints and prevailing against them,

¹How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.

²How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!

²⁹May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.

¹⁵All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,

¹⁰Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame—she who said to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.

²³He has broken my strength on the way; He has cut short my days.

²⁸I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.

²⁹I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.

¹⁸For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

⁵How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

⁶³Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.

¹³Return, O Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

¹⁵Truly You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

¹⁷I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.

¹⁴Why, O Lord, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?

¹“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

⁷Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

⁹Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

²⁵My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

²⁶They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

¹⁴You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

⁴Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

⁵For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

¹⁵But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

⁵By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

⁷before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

⁷No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.

⁸For the redemption of his soul is costly, and never can payment suffice,

⁸As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

¹⁵But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

²¹but 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.’”

³Incline 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.

⁵He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.

⁷I 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.

⁸For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.

¹¹The Lord swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.

¹²If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”

¹⁸Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O Lord, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

²²Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.

⁹because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

³For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”

¹⁰Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.

¹¹May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.

¹³You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

¹⁴You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

¹⁴If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

¹⁵Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.

¹⁰How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?

¹⁰Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

¹¹Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

³⁶Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

²⁴But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this man drive out demons.”

⁴⁸The Jews answered Him, “Are we not right to say that You are a Samaritan and You have a demon?”

¹³Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

¹⁸Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.

¹⁹And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.

¹⁷Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

⁴⁸Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!

¹⁷Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,

¹⁸yet I will exult in the Lord; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!

¹³And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’