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I Will Sing of His Love Forever

Psalms 89:3

In 11 translations

BSB
You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:
KJV
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
WEB
“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,
ASV
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant:
LSV
I have made a covenant for My chosen, || I have sworn to My servant David:
YLT
I have made a covenant for My chosen, I have sworn to David My servant:
DBY
I have made a covenant with mine elect, I have sworn unto David my servant:
DRC88:4
I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my servant:
GNV
I haue made a couenant with my chosen: I haue sworne to Dauid my seruant,
JPS89:4
I have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sworn unto David My servant:
LXXE88:4
I made a covenant with my chosen ones, I sware unto David my servant.

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Original-language editions

WLC89:4
כָּרַ֣תִּֽי בְ֭רִית לִבְחִירִ֑י נִ֝שְׁבַּ֗עְתִּי לְדָוִ֥ד עַבְדִּֽי׃KJV:Ps.89.3
LXX-Br88:4
Διεθέμην διαθήκην τοῖς ἐκλεκτοῖς μου, ὤμοσα Δαυὶδ τῷ δούλῳ μου.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 132:11The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.
  • 2 Samuel 7:10–16And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the…
  • 1 Kings 8:16‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
  • Hebrews 7:21but Jesus became a priest with an oath by the One who said to Him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’”
  • Psalms 89:28I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
  • Acts 2:30But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.
  • 2 Samuel 23:5Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?
  • Jeremiah 33:20–21“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time, then My covenant may also be broken with David My…
  • Ezekiel 34:23–24I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd. I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, the LORD,…
  • Psalms 89:34–35I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips. Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness— I will not lie to David—
  • Jeremiah 30:9Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
  • Luke 1:32–33He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David, and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end!”
  • Isaiah 42:1“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
  • 2 Samuel 3:9May God punish Abner, and ever so severely, if I do not do for David what the LORD has sworn to him:
  • Matthew 12:18–21“Here is My Servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations. He will not quarrel or cry out; no one will hear His voice in the…
  • Hosea 3:5Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.

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  • 89:4 in some Bibles
  • 89:3 in most Bibles

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