Psalm 89:3-4

New International Version

³You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
I have sworn to David my servant,
⁴‘I will establish your line forever
and make your throne firm through all generations.’”^[a]^(A)

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Footnotes

Psalm 89:4 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 37, 45 and 48.

Psalm 89:26-37

New International Version

²⁶He will call out to me, ‘You are my Father,^(A)
    my God, the Rock^(B) my Savior.’^(C)
²⁷And I will appoint him to be my firstborn,^(D)
    the most exalted^(E) of the kings^(F) of the earth.
²⁸I will maintain my love to him forever,
    and my covenant with him will never fail.^(G)
²⁹I will establish his line forever,
    his throne as long as the heavens endure.^(H)

³⁰“If his sons forsake my law
    and do not follow my statutes,
³¹if they violate my decrees
    and fail to keep my commands,
³²I will punish their sin with the rod,
    their iniquity with flogging;^(I)
³³but I will not take my love from him,^(J)
    nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.
³⁴I will not violate my covenant
    or alter what my lips have uttered.^(K)
³⁵Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness—
    and I will not lie to David—
³⁶that his line will continue forever
    and his throne endure before me like the sun;^(L)
³⁷it will be established forever like the moon,
    the faithful witness in the sky.”^(M)