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\c 89
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\d A song written by Ethan, from the clan of Ezra
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\q1
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\v 1 Yahweh, I will sing forever about the ways you faithfully love me;
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\q2 people not yet born will hear that you faithfully do all that you have promised.
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\q1
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\v 2 I will tell people that you will faithfully love us forever,
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\q2 and that your being faithful to do what you have promised is as permanent as the sky.
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\q1
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\v 3 Yahweh said, "I have made an agreement with David, whom I chose to serve me.
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\q2 I have made this solemn agreement with him:
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\q1
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\v 4 'I will enable various ones of your descendants to always be kings;
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\q2 the line of kings descended from you will never end.'"
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 5 Yahweh, I desire that all those beings who are in heaven will praise you for the wonderful things that you do,
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\q2 and that all your holy angels will sing about how you faithfully do what you promise.
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\q1
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\v 6 There is no one in heaven who can be compared with you, Yahweh.
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\q2 There are no angels in heaven who are equal to you.
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\q1
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\v 7 When your holy angels gather together,
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\q2 they declare that you must be revered;
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\q1 they say that you are more awesome than all the angels that surround your throne!
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\q1
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\v 8 O Yahweh God, commander of the angel armies, there is no one who is as powerful as you are;
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\q2 your faithfully doing all that you promise is like a cloak that always surrounds you.
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\q1
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\v 9 You rule over the powerful seas;
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\q2 when their waves rise up, you calm them.
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\q1
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\v 10 You are the one who crushed and killed the great sea monster named Rahab.
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\q2 You defeated and scattered your enemies with your great power.
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\q1
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\v 11 The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours;
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\q2 everything on the earth is yours because you created it all.
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\v 12 You created everything from the north to the south.
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\q2 Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon joyfully praise you .
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\v 13 You are very powerful;
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\q2 you are extremely strong.
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\v 14 You rule over people fairly and justly;
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\q2 you are always faithfully loving us and doing what you promised.
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\v 15 Yahweh, how fortunate are those who worship you with joyful shouts in their festivals,
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\q2 who live knowing that you are always watching over them.
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\v 16 Every day, throughout the day, they rejoice in what you have done,
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\q2 and they praise you for being very good to them.
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\v 17 You give us your glorious strength;
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\q2 because you act in our favor, we defeat our enemies.
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\q1
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\v 18 Yahweh, you gave us the one who protects us;
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\q2 you, the holy God whom we Israelites worship, chose a king for us.
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\v 19 Long ago you spoke in a vision to one of your servants, saying,
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\q2 "I have crowned a famous soldier;
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\q1 I chose him from among all the people to be a king.
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\v 20 That man is David, the one who will serve me faithfully,
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\q2 and I anointed him with sacred olive oil to make him king.
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\v 21 My strength will always be with him;
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\q2 with my power, I will make him strong.
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\v 22 His enemies will never find ways to outwit him,
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\q2 and wicked people will never defeat him.
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\v 23 I will crush his enemies in front of him
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\q2 and get rid of those who hate him.
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\v 24 I will always be loyal to him and faithfully love him
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\q2 and enable him to defeat his enemies.
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\v 25 I will cause his kingdom to include all the land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Euphrates River.
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\v 26 He will say to me, 'You are my Father,
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\q2 my God, the one who protects and saves me.'
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\v 27 I will give him the rights as my firstborn son;
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\q2 he will be the greatest king on the earth.
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\v 28 I will always be loyal to him,
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\q2 and my agreement to bless him will last forever.
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\v 29 I will establish a line of his descendants that will never end,
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\q2 various ones of his descendants will always be kings.
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\v 30 But if some of his descendants disobey my laws
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\q2 and do not behave as my commands say that they should,
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\v 31 if they disregard my requirements
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\q2 and do not do the right things that I have told them to do,
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\v 32 I will punish them severely
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\q2 and cause them to suffer for doing wrong.
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\v 33 But I will not stop faithfully loving David,
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\q2 and I will always do what I promised him.
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\v 34 I will not break the agreement that I made with him;
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\q2 I will not change even one word that I spoke to him.
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\v 35 Once I made a solemn promise to David, and that will never change;
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\q2 because I am God, I will never lie to David.
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\v 36 I promised that the line of kings descended from him will go on forever;
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\q2 it will last as long as the sun shines.
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\v 37 That line will be as permanent as the moon
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\q2 that is always watching everything here on earth."
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\v 38 But Yahweh, now you have rejected him!
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\q2 You are very angry with the king whom you appointed.
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\v 39 It seems that you have broken the agreement that you made with your servant, David;
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\q2 it seems as though you have thrown his crown into the dust.
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\v 40 You have torn down the walls that protect his city
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\q2 and allowed all his forts to become ruins.
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\v 41 All those who pass by plunder his possessions;
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\q2 his neighbors laugh at him.
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\v 42 You have enabled his enemies to defeat him;
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\q2 you have made them all happy.
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\v 43 You have caused his sword to become useless,
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\q2 and you have not helped him in his battles.
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\v 44 You have caused his splendor to end
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\q2 and knocked his throne to the ground.
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\v 45 You have caused him to become old when he is still young
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\q2 and caused him to be very shamed.
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\v 46 O Yahweh, how long will this continue?
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\q2 Will you hide yourself from us forever?
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\q1 How long will your anger against us burn like a fire?
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\v 47 Do not forget that life is very short;
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\q2 Do not forget that you have created all of us to die uselessly.
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\v 48 No one can keep on living and never die;
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\q2 no one can bring himself back from the place of the dead.
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\v 49 Yahweh, you promised long ago
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\q2 that you would faithfully love me;
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\q1 why are you not doing that?
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\q1 You solemnly promised this to David!
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\v 50 Yahweh, do not forget that people insult us!
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\q2 Heathen people curse me!
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\v 51 Yahweh, your enemies insult your chosen king!
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\q2 They insult him wherever he goes.
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\v 52 I hope that Yahweh will be praised forever!
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\q1 Amen! May it be so!
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