Psalms 89:49

47 Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

48 What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?

50 Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—

51 how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?
KJV
Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
WEB
Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
ASV
Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?
DARBY
Where, Lord, are thy former loving-kindnesses, [which] thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?
BLB
where [is] Your loving devotion [is] Your Of old, O Lord, which You swore of David in Your faithfulness?
ÅB
Hvor er, Herre, dine forrige nådegjerninger, som du tilsvor David i din trofasthet?
OTB
Hvor er dine tidligere miskunnshandlinger, Herre,
Som du lovet David i din trofasthet?
B1930
Hvor er, Herre, dine forrige nådegjerninger, som du tilsvor David i din trofasthet?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 2 Samuel 7:15

    But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I moved out of your way.

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  • 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.’”

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  • 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.

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  • Psalms 54:5

    He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.

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  • Isaiah 63:7–15

    I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us— the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.

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  • Psalms 132:11–12

    The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.

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  • 2 Samuel 3:9

    May God punish Abner, and ever so severely, if I do not do for David what the LORD has sworn to him:

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  • Psalms 89:3–4

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

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