Psalms 89

Treated in 20 passages across the library.

  • 89:13 Yours is an arm full of might; your hand has strength, and your right hand is lifted high. 2
  • 89:15 How blessed are the people who have learned to shout for joy in worship; LORD, they live in the light of your presence. 2
  • 89:19 Long ago you spoke in a vision to your loyal ones and said, "I have laid help on a mighty man; I have lifted high a man I chose from the people. 2
  • 89:31 if they treat my decrees as nothing and do not keep my commands, 2
  • 89:32 then I will call their rebellion to account with the rod and their guilt with beatings. 2
  • 89:33 But my loyal love I will never cut off from him, and my faithfulness will not prove false. 2
  • 89:34 I will never desecrate my covenant; what my lips have spoken I will not change. 2
  • 89:1 Forever I will sing of the loyal love the LORD has shown; to one generation after another my mouth will tell how faithful you are. 1
  • 89:3 "With the one I chose I have made a covenant; to David, my servant, I have given my oath: 1
  • 89:6 For who in the clouds above is the LORD's equal? Which of the heavenly powers is like the LORD? 1
  • 89:7 God is held in great awe in the court of the holy ones, and feared above all who stand around him. 1
  • 89:14 Your throne rests on what is right and just; loyal love and faithfulness walk ahead of you. 1
  • 89:16 They find joy in your name the whole day, and your righteousness raises them up. 1
  • 89:17 For you are the splendor of their strength, and by your goodwill our strength is raised high. 1
  • 89:18 For the shield that protects us is the LORD's, and the king who rules us belongs to the Holy One of Israel. 1
  • 89:26 He will call to me, 'It is you who are my Father, my God, my rock where I am safe.' 1
  • 89:28 I will keep my loyal love for him forever, and my covenant with him will hold fast. 1
  • 89:30 If his descendants abandon my instruction and do not live by my rulings, 1
  • 89:35 I have sworn by my holiness, once and for all, that I will never lie to David: 1

Open Word Bible

  1. The Key Teachings of John Calvin · Ochorus Originals

    Songs God Put in Our Mouths cites PSALM 89:1

    …the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. PSALM 89:1 He also asked that church singing have weight and majesty, fitting for the presence of…

  2. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 1 — Of the True Church cites Ps. 89:3

    …servant, Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations” (Ps. 89:3, 4). “The Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation. This is my rest…

  3. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.1 The First Commandment cites Psa 89: 6

    …compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?’ Psa 89: 6. In the Chaldee it is, ‘Who among the angels?’ None can do as God; he brought the world…

  4. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    Worship cites Psalm lxxxix. 7

    …the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about Him.” (Psalm lxxxix. 7.) If it is worth while to attend public worship at all, it is worth while to do it…

  5. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Being of God cites Psa 89:13

    …all power that is, is by him, therefore all power is under him; he has a ‘mighty arm.’ Psa 89:13. He sees the designs men drive at against him, and plucks off their chariot wheels; he…

  6. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Power of God cites Psa 89:13

    …cannot omnipotent power do? ‘The Lord is a man of war.’ Exod 15:3. ‘He has a mighty arm.’ Psa 89:13. ‘God’s power is a glorious power.’ Col 1:11. It is an irresistible power. Rom 9:19. ‘Who…

  7. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Justice of God cites Psa 89:14

    …find him out: he is excellent in plenty of justice.’ God is said to dwell in justice. Psa 89:14. ‘Justice and judgement are the habitation of thy throne.’ In God, power and justice…

  8. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd · David Brainerd

    Labors for the Indians at and near the Forks of Delaware—idolatrous feast and dance—journey through the wilderness to Opeholhaupung or the Susquehanna—erects a cottage at Forks of the Delaware—some evidences of a work of the Spirit among the Indians—journey to New-England to obtain money to support cites Psalm 89:15

    …after prayer and some discourse with them, returned to Greenwich, and preached again from Psalm 89:15. The Lord gave me some assistance; I felt a sweet love to souls and to the kingdom of…

  9. Practical Religion · J. C. Ryle

    The Best Friend cites Psalm lxxxix. 19

    …and to save that which was lost;" and to "deliver us from going down into the pit." (Psalm lxxxix. 19; Luke xix. 10; Job xxxiii. 24.) Could we have been saved without the Lord Jesus Christ…

  10. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    January cites Psalm 89:19

    …Fie on thee, O silly heart! January 23 “I have exalted one chosen out of the people.” (Psalm 89:19) Why was Christ chosen out of the people? Speak, my heart, for heart-thoughts are best.…

  11. Communion with God · John Owen

    How the saints hold communion with Christ as to their acceptation with God cites Ps. lxxxix. 26

    …8; Heb. x. 8–10. Hence the Father became to be his God; which is a covenant expression, Ps. lxxxix. 26; Heb. i. 5; Ps. xxii. 1, xl. 8, xlv. 7; Rev. iii. 12; Mic. v. 4. So was he by his Father…

  12. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Assurance cites Psa 89:28

    …(3.) When God is out of sight, he is not out of covenant. ‘My covenant shall stand fast.’ Psa 89:28. Though a wife does not see her husband’s face for many years, yet the marriage-relation…

  13. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    Get a clear sense of the guilt, danger and evil of the sin cites Ps. lxxxix. 30–33

    …temporal correction, which the Scripture calls “vengeance,” “judgment,” and “punishment.” Ps. lxxxix. 30–33, Though God should not utterly cast thee off for this abomination that lies in thy heart…

  14. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites Psa 89: 31

    …‘If they keep not my commandments, then will I visit their transgressions with the rod.’ Psa 89: 31, 32. Sin twists the cords which pinch us; it creates all our troubles, is the gall in our…

  15. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites Psa 89: 32

    …failing destroy us; he bears with his spouse as with the weaker vessel. He may chastise. Psa 89: 32. He may use the rod and the pruning-knife, but not the bloody axe. ‘He has not beheld…

  16. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Truth of God cites Psa 89:33

    …as in gold, he does not break his promise. ‘I will not suffer my faithfulness to fail.’ Psa 89:33. In the Hebrew it is, to lie. How does it consist with the truth of God, that he will…

  17. Freedom of the Will · Jonathan Edwards

    Section II. The Acts of the Will of the Human Soul of Jesus Christ, Necessarily Holy, Yet Truly Virtuous, Praise-worthy, Rewardable, &c cites Psalm. lxxxix. 34 – 36

    …set forth in Scripture, as sure and irrefragable, as this promise and oath to David. (See Psalm. lxxxix. 34 – 36. 2 Sam. xxiii. 5. Isa. lv. 4. Acts ii. 29, 30. and xiii. 34.) The Scripture expressly…

  18. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 15 — Three Things Briefly to Be Regarded in Christ cites Ps. 89:35

    …me. It shall be established for ever, as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven,” (Ps. 89:35, 37). There can be no doubt that God here promises that he will be, by the hand of his…

  19. Separation and Service · Hudson Taylor

    The Blessing of God cites Ps. lxxxix. 15-18

    …they can but confess that their life is very different from that ideal life described in Ps. lxxxix. 15-18: "Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They shall walk, O Lord, in the light…

  20. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 4 — Penitence, as Explained in the Sophistical Jargon of the Schoolmen, Widely Different from the Purity Required by the Gospel cites Ps. 89:31-34

    …loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail,” (Ps. 89:31-34). To assure us of this mercy, he says, that the rod with which he will chastise the…