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New Century Version

Psalms 89:28

My love will watch over him forever, and my agreement with him will never end.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Covenant;   David;   God;   God Continued...;   Government;   Thompson Chain Reference - Covenant;   Covenants and Vows;   Mercifulness-Unmercifulness;   Mercy;   Promises, Divine;   The Topic Concordance - Covenant;   Disobedience;   Failure;   Faith/faithfulness;   Forsaking;   Government;   Kindness;   Throne;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Mercy of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ethan;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Chastisement;   Covenant;   David;   King;   Samuel, books of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Covenant;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Father;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Expiation, Propitiation;   Kindness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethan;   Ezrahite;   Firstborn;   Lovingkindness;   Mercy, Merciful;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Covenant;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Kingdom of christ of heaven;   Kingdom of god;   Kingdom of heaven;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Faithful;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   Son of God;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will always preserve my faithful love for him,and my covenant with him will endure.
Hebrew Names Version
I will keep my lovingkindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him.
King James Version
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
English Standard Version
My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.
New English Translation
I will always extend my loyal love to him, and my covenant with him is secure.
Amplified Bible
"My lovingkindness I will keep for him forevermore, And My covenant will be confirmed to him.
New American Standard Bible
"I will maintain My favor for him forever, And My covenant shall be confirmed to him.
World English Bible
I will keep my lovingkindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
My mercie will I keepe for him for euermore, and my couenant shall stande fast with him.
Legacy Standard Bible
My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever,And My covenant shall be confirmed to him.
Berean Standard Bible
I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
Contemporary English Version
My love for him will last, and my agreement with him will never be broken.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will give him the position of firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
Darby Translation
My loving-kindness will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him;
Easy-to-Read Version
My love will protect him forever. My agreement with him will never end.
George Lamsa Translation
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
Good News Translation
I will always keep my promise to him, and my covenant with him will last forever.
Lexham English Bible
Forever I will keep my loyal love for him, and my covenant will be reliable for him.
Literal Translation
I will keep My mercy for him forever, and My covenant shall hold fast with him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And I wil make him my firstborne, hyer then the kinges of the earth.
American Standard Version
My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
Bible in Basic English
I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I also will appoint him first-born, the highest of the kings of the earth.
King James Version (1611)
My mercy will I keepe for him for euermore: and my couenant shall stand fast with him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
My mercy wyll I kepe for hym euermore: and my couenaunt shal stand fast with hym.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I will keep my mercy for him for ever, and my covenant shall be firm with him.
English Revised Version
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
With outen ende Y schal kepe my merci to hym; and my testament feithful to him.
Update Bible Version
My loving-kindness I will keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
Webster's Bible Translation
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
New King James Version
My mercy I will keep for him forever, And My covenant shall stand firm with him.
New Living Translation
I will love him and be kind to him forever; my covenant with him will never end.
New Life Bible
I will keep My loving-kindness for him forever. And My agreement with him will be made strong.
New Revised Standard
Forever I will keep my steadfast love for him, and my covenant with him will stand firm.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Age-abidingly, will I keep for him my lovingkindness, And, my covenant, hath been made steadfast for him;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(88-29) I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him.
Revised Standard Version
My steadfast love I will keep for him for ever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.
Young's Literal Translation
To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant [is] stedfast with him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever, And My covenant shall be confirmed to him.

Contextual Overview

19 Once, in a vision, you spoke to those who worship you. You said, "I have given strength to a warrior; I have raised up a young man from my people. 20 I have found my servant David; I appointed him by pouring holy oil on him. 21 I will steady him with my hand and strengthen him with my arm. 22 No enemy will make him give forced payments, and wicked people will not defeat him. 23 I will crush his enemies in front of him; I will defeat those who hate him. 24 My loyalty and love will be with him. Through me he will be strong. 25 I will give him power over the sea and control over the rivers. 26 He will say to me, ‘You are my father, my God, the Rock, my Savior.' 27 I will make him my firstborn son, the greatest king on earth. 28 My love will watch over him forever, and my agreement with him will never end.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

mercy: 2 Samuel 7:15, 2 Samuel 7:16, Isaiah 54:10, Isaiah 55:3, Acts 13:32-34

covenant: Psalms 89:34, Psalms 111:5, Psalms 111:9, 2 Samuel 23:5, Jeremiah 33:20, Jeremiah 33:21

Reciprocal: Exodus 39:8 - General Deuteronomy 11:21 - as the days 1 Kings 9:5 - I will establish 1 Chronicles 28:7 - Moreover 2 Chronicles 6:14 - keepest covenant 2 Chronicles 7:18 - as I have 2 Chronicles 21:7 - because Psalms 55:20 - broken Psalms 74:20 - Have Psalms 89:24 - But my Psalms 89:45 - The

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My mercy will I keep for him for evermore,.... That is, for his mystical body, his church and people; for whom stores of mercy are kept with him, to be laid out in their regeneration, pardon, salvation, and eternal life; for to them the mercy of God is from everlasting to everlasting, Psalms 103:17, unless this is to be understood of the "grace" and "kindness" g of God, as the word may be rendered; his free favour and love to Christ, which always continues; for as he was always his dearly beloved Son, that lay in his bosom from eternity, so he continued, throughout his state, of humiliation, his well beloved, in whom he was well pleased, and still is, and ever will:

and my covenant shall stand fast with him; being made with him as the head and representative of his people, it remains, and will remain, sure, firm, and immoveable; its blessings are "sure mercies", and its promises are all "yea and amen in Christ": the stability of it, and of all that is in it, is owing to its being made with him, and being in his hands, who is the surety, Mediator, and messenger of it.

g חסדי "bonitatem meam", Musculus, Tigurine version; "benignitatem meam", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "gratiam meam", Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My mercy will I keep for him for evermore - I will not withdraw my favor from him, nor from his posterity, Psalms 89:33-36. In him, and in his Great Descendant, the throne shall be established forever. This dominion will not be like the changing dynasties of this world, but will be perpetual and eternal.

And my covenant shall stand fast with him - See 2 Samuel 7:14-16; 2 Samuel 23:5. It shall be firm, or established with him and his family.


 
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