Psalms Chapter 89 verse 2 Holy Bible
For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.
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For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens.
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For I said, Loving-kindness shall be built up for ever; in the very heavens wilt thou establish thy faithfulness.
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For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
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Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
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I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them."
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For I said, `To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.'
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Psalms 89 : 2 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever. A time shall come when, out of whatever ruins, mercy shall be "built up" - raised from the ground like a solid edifice, and, when once raised up, shall stand firm forever. Thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens. At the same time, God's faithfulness to his promises will be established "in the very heavens," i.e. conspicuously (see ver. 37).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Mercy . . . faithfulness.--These words, so often combined, express here, as commonly in the psalms, the attitude of the covenant God towards His people. The art of the poet is shown in this exordium. He strikes so strongly this note of the inviolability of the Divine promise only to make the deprecation of present neglect on God's part presently more striking.Shall be built up for ever--Better, is for ever being built up. Elsewhere figured as a "place of shelter," a "tower of refuge," God's faithfulness is here presented as an edifice for ever rising on foundations laid in the heavens. (Comp. Psalm 119:89.) The heavens are at once the type of unchangeableness and of splendour and height. Mant's paraphrase brings out the power of the verse:--"For I have said, Thy mercies rise,A deathless structure, to the skies;The heavens were planted by Thy hand,And as the heavens Thy truth shall stand."And Wordsworth has sung of Him:--"Who fixed immovably the frameOf the round world, and built by laws as strongThe solid refuge for distress, . . .
