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89 1 With many words doth the Prophet praise the goodness of God, 23 For his testament and covenant, that he had made between him and his elect by Jesus Christ the son of David. 38 Then doth he complain of the great ruin, and desolation of the kingdom of David, so that to the outward appearance the promise was broken. 46 Finally, he prayeth to be delivered from his afflictions, making mention of the shortness of man’s life, and confirming himself by God’s promise.
A Psalm to give instruction, of Ethan the Ezrahite.
1 I will [a]sing the mercies of the Lord forever: with my mouth will I declare thy truth from generation to generation.
2 For I [b]said, Mercy shall be set up forever: thy truth shalt thou [c]stablish in the very heavens.
3 [d]I have made a covenant with my chosen: I have sworn to David my servant,
4 Thy seed will I stablish forever, and set up thy throne from generation to generation. Selah.
5 O Lord, even the [e]heavens shall praise thy wondrous work: yea, thy truth in the [f]Congregation of the Saints.
6 For who is equal to the Lord in the heaven? and who is like the Lord among the [g]sons of the gods?
7 God is very terrible in the assembly of the [h]Saints, and to be reverenced above all that are about him.
8 O Lord God of hosts, who is like unto thee, which art a mighty Lord, and thy truth is about thee?
9 [i]Thou rulest the raging of the Sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
10 Thou hast beaten down Rahab as a man slain: thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy mighty arm.
11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast laid the foundation of the world, and all that therein is.
12 Thou hast created the North and the South: [j]Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy Name.
13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
14 [k]Righteousness and equity are the stablishment of thy throne: mercy and truth go before thy face.
15 Blessed is the people that can [l]rejoice in thee: they shall walk in the light of thy [m]countenance, O Lord.
16 They shall rejoice continually in thy Name, and in thy righteousness shall they exalt themselves.
17 For thou art the [n]glory of their strength, and by thy favor our horns shall be exalted.
18 For our [o]shield appertaineth to the Lord, and our King to the Holy one of Israel.
19 Thou spakest then in a vision unto [p]thine Holy one, and saidest, I have laid help upon one that is [q]mighty: I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
20 I have found David my servant: with mine holy oil have I anointed him.
21 Therefore mine hand shall be established with him, and mine arm shall strengthen him.
22 The enemy shall not oppress him, neither shall the wicked hurt him.
23 But I will [r]destroy his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
24 My truth also and my [s]mercy shall be with him, and in my Name shall his [t]horn be exalted.
25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the [u]floods.
26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my [v]Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my Covenant shall stand fast with him.
29 His seed also will I make to endure [w]forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
30 But if his children forsake my Law, and walk not in my judgments:
31 (A)If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments:
32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with strokes.
33 [x]Yet my loving kindness will I not take from him, neither will I falsify my truth.
34 My Covenant will I not break, nor [y]alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35 I have sworn once by mine holiness, [z]that I will not fail David, saying,
36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne shall be as the sun before me.
37 He shall be established for evermore as the moon, and as a faithful [aa]witness in the heaven. Selah.
38 But thou hast rejected and abhorred, thou hast been angry with thine anointed.
39 Thou hast [ab]broken the Covenant of thy servant, and profaned his [ac]crown, casting it on the ground.
40 Thou hast broken down all his walls: thou hast laid his fortresses in ruin.
41 All that go by the way, spoil him: he is a rebuke unto his neighbors.
42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies, and made all his adversaries to rejoice.
43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
44 Thou hast caused his dignity to decay, and cast his throne to the ground.
45 The days of his [ad]youth hast thou shortened, and covered him with shame. Selah.
46 [ae]Lord, how long wilt thou hide thyself, forever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
47 Remember [af]of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vain all the children of men?
48 What man liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
49 Lord, where are thy former mercies, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
50 Remember, O Lord, the rebuke of thy servants, which I bear in my [ag]bosom of all the mighty people.
51 For [ah]thine enemies have reproached thee, O Lord, because they have reproached the [ai]footsteps of thine Anointed.
52 Praised be the Lord for evermore. So be it, even so be it.
90 1 Moses in his prayer setteth before us the eternal favor of God toward his, 3 who are neither admonished by the brevity of their life, 7 nor by his plagues to be thankful, 12 therefore Moses prayeth God to turn their hearts, and continue his mercies toward them and their posterity forever.
A prayer of Moses, [aj]the man of God.
1 Lord, thou hast been our [ak]habitation from generation to generation.
2 Before the [al]mountains were made, and before thou hadst formed the earth, and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art our God.
3 Thou [am]turnest man to destruction: again thou sayest, Return ye sons of Adam.
4 [an]For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 Thou hast [ao]overflowed them, they are as a sleep, in the morning he groweth like the grass:
6 In the morning it flourisheth and groweth, but in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
7 For we are [ap]consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days are past in thine anger: we have [aq]spent our years as a thought.
10 The time of our life is threescore years and ten, and if they be of strength, [ar]fourscore years: yet their strength is but labor and sorrow: for it is cut off quickly, and we flee away.
11 [as]Who knoweth the power of thy wrath? for according to thy fear is thine anger.
12 Teach us so to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto [at]wisdom.
13 Return (O Lord, [au]how long?) and be [av]pacified toward thy servants.
14 Fill us with thy mercy in the morning: so shall we rejoice and be glad all our days?
15 Comfort us according to the days that thou hast afflicted us, and according to the years that we have seen evil.
16 [aw]Let thy work be seen toward thy servants, and thy glory upon their [ax]children.
17 And let the [ay]beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and [az]direct thou the work of our hands upon us, even direct the work of our hands.
14 1 He willeth that we so deal with the weak in faith, 2, 5 that through our fault they be not offended. 10 And on the other side he commandeth them not rashly to judge of the stronger: 19 That within the bounds of edification 20 and charity. 22 Christian liberty may conflict.
1 Him [a]that is weak in the faith, [b]receive unto you, but not for [c]controversies of disputations.
2 [d]One [e]believeth that he may eat of all things: and another, which is weak, eateth herbs.
3 [f]Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not: and let not him which eateth not, condemn him that eateth: for [g]God hath received him.
4 (A)[h]Who art thou that condemnest another man’s servant? he standeth or falleth to his own master: yea, he shall be established: for God is able to make him stand.
5 [i]This man esteemeth one day above another day, and another man counteth every day alike: [j]let [k]every man be fully persuaded in his mind.
6 [l]He that [m]observeth the day, observeth it to the Lord: and he that observeth not the day, observeth it not to the [n]Lord. He that [o]eateth, eateth to the Lord: [p]for he giveth God thanks: and he that eateth [q]not, eateth not to the Lord, and giveth God thanks.
7 [r]For none of us liveth to [s]himself, neither doth any die to himself.
8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord: or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lords.
9 For Christ therefore died and rose again, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the quick.
10 [t]But why dost thou condemn thy brother? or why dost thou despise thy brother? (B)for we shall all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.
11 For it is written, [u]I (C)live, saith the Lord, and every knee shall bow to me, and all tongues shall [v]confess unto God.
12 So then everyone of us shall give accounts of himself to God.
13 [w]Let us not therefore judge one another anymore: but use your judgment rather in [x]this that no man put an occasion to fall, or a stumbling block before his brother.
14 [y]I know, and am persuaded through the [z]Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of [aa]itself: but unto him that judgeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 But if thy brother be grieved for the meat, now walkest thou not charitably: (D)[ab]destroy not him with thy meat, for whom [ac]Christ died.
16 [ad]Cause not your commodity to be evil spoken of.
17 [ae]For the kingdom of God, is not meat nor drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the holy Ghost.
18 For whosoever in [af]these things serveth Christ, is acceptable unto God, and is approved of men.
19 [ag]Let us then follow those things which concern peace, and wherewith one may edify another.
20 Destroy not the work of God for meat’s sake: (E)all things indeed are pure: but it is evil for the man which eateth with offense.
21 (F)It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or made weak.
22 [ah]Hast thou [ai]faith? have it with thyself before God: blessed is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he [aj]alloweth.
23 For he that [ak]doubteth, is condemned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: and whatsoever is not of faith, is sin.
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