God made my family strong and secure. [145] He made an agreement with me forever! God made sure this agreement was good and secure in every way. So surely he will give me every victory. He will give me everything I want!
Psalm 89:3 - Easy To Read Version God said,\par “I made an agreement with my chosen king.\par I made a promise to my servant, David:\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [You have said] I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant, American Standard Version (1901) I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant: Common English Bible You said, “I made a covenant with my chosen one; I promised my servant David: Catholic Public Domain Version And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men. |
God made my family strong and secure. [145] He made an agreement with me forever! God made sure this agreement was good and secure in every way. So surely he will give me every victory. He will give me everything I want!
‘I brought my people, Israel, out of Egypt. But I had not yet chosen a city from among the family groups of Israel for a temple to honor me. And I had not chosen a man to be leader over my people, Israel. But now I have chosen Jerusalem to be the city where I will be honored. And I have chosen David to rule over my people, Israel.’
The Lord made a promise to David.\par The Lord promised to be loyal to David.\par The Lord promised that the kings would come from David’s family.\par
God chose David to be his special servant.\par David was guarding the sheep pens,\par but God took him away from that job.\par
You spoke to your followers in a vision\par and said,\par “I chose a young man from the crowd.\par And I made that young man important.\par I made that young soldier strong.\par
My love will protect the chosen king forever.\par My agreement with him will never end.\par
You rejected your agreement.\par You threw the king’s crown into the dirt.\par
“Look at my Servant!\par I support him.\par He is the one I chose.\par And I am very pleased with him.\par I put my Spirit in him.\par He will judge the nations fairly.\par
Listen closely to the things I say.\par Listen to me so your souls will live.\par Come to me and I will make an agreement\par with you that will continue forever.\par It will be like the agreement\par that I made with David.\par I promised David that I would love him\par and be loyal to him forever.\par And you can trust that agreement.\par
The people of Israel and Judah will not serve foreign countries. No! They will serve the Lord their God. And they will serve David their king, {\cf2\super [236]} I will send that king to them.
After this the people of Israel will come back. Then they will look for the Lord their God, and for David their king. In the last days, they will come to honor the Lord and his goodness.
And a voice spoke from heaven. The voice said, “This (Jesus) is my Son and I love him. I am very pleased with him.”
David was a prophet {\cf2\super [33]} and knew something God said. God promised David that he would make a person from David’s family to be a king like David. {\cf2\super [34]}
The Angel of the Lord went up to the city of Bokim from the city of Gilgal. The angel spoke a message from the Lord to the people of Israel. This was the message: “I brought you out of Egypt. I led you to the land that I promised to give to your ancestors. [13] I told you I would never break my agreement with you.