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This is a special song that Ethan the Ezrahite wrote.

God's special love[a]

89 I will always sing about the Lord's faithful love.
I will tell my children and my grandchildren
    that you are always faithful.
Yes! Your faithful love will always continue to be strong.
You will always be faithful,
    as the skies will always be there.
The Lord has said,
‘I have made a covenant with the king that I chose.
    I have made this strong promise to my servant David:

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Footnotes

  1. 89:1 God had made special promises to David as part of a covenant. See 2 Samuel 7:12-17. He promised that someone from David's family would always be king. In this psalm, the writer sees that all these promises have not yet become true. So the writer is sad. He wants to know if God has forgotten about his promises to David.