Psalm 89:3

Translations

Modern

You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:

Traditional

I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,

Literal

“I have cut a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:

Latin

Disposui testamentum electis meis; juravi David servo meo:

Original

Hebrew

English

You said, “I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:

Notes

Psalms 89:3

The Lord has sworn by his own holiness (Psalm 89:35; see 110:4).

Psalms 89:3–4

The psalmist repeats God's covenant with David (see also Psalm 89:19–37).

Psalms 89:1–52

Book Three (Psalms 73–89) starts and ends with serious questions. Psalm 89 begins with praise for how the Lord established David’s throne and kingdom (89:1–37). But later the psalmist protests that the Lord seems to have rejected his covenant with David (Psalm 89:38–51; see 2 Samuel 7:8–16).

Theme notes and profiles

God’s Covenant with David Making Sense of the Exile Questions and Doubt Royal Psalms The Creator-King

Related verses

Psalm 132:11
The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.
2 Samuel 7:10–16
And 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 beginning
Hebrews 7:21
…but 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.’”
Psalm 89:28
I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.
Acts 2:30
But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.
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.’
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,
Jeremiah 30:9
Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
Psalm 89:34–35
I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
Ezekiel 34:23–24
I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.
2 Samuel 23:5
Is 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?
Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.

People

David: Anointed king of Israel, ancestor of Jesus Christ

Glossary

Ethan Music Peace Promise Prophecy Psalms, Book of Zerah

Topics

Church: Prophecies Concerning Prosperity of David: Desires to Build a Temple, is Forbidden, but Receives God's Promise That his Seed should Reign Forever Jesus, the Christ: King Jesus, the Christ: Prophecies Concerning Universality of the Kingdom of The Covenant: Made With: David The Promises of God: Confirmed by an Oath The Promises of God: Made to David

Psalm 89:3

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