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III

20 Then you spoke in vision;(A)
    to your faithful ones you said:
“I have set a leader over the warriors;
    I have raised up a chosen one from the people.

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21 I have chosen David, my servant;
    with my holy oil I have anointed him.
22 My hand will be with him;(A)
    my arm will make him strong.

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27 He shall cry to me, ‘You are my father,(A)
    my God, the Rock of my salvation!’
28 I myself make him the firstborn,
    Most High[a] over the kings of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 89:28 Most High: a divine title, which is here extended to David as God’s own king, cf. Ps 2:7–9; Is 9:5. As God rules over the members of the heavenly council (Ps 89:6–9), so David, God’s surrogate, rules over earthly kings.