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The Geneva Bible (1560)
Geneva
The Sonnini Manuscript: The Lost Chapter 29 of Acts
Acts29
[[A Psalm Chapter to give instruction, of Ethan the Ezrahite.]]
[1]I will sing the mercies of the Lord forever: with my mouth will I declare thy truth from generation to generation. [No book]
[2]For I said, Mercy shall be set up forever: thy truth shalt thou stablish in the very heavens. [No book]
[3]I have made a covenant with my chosen: I have sworn to David my servant, [No book]
[4]Thy seed will I stablish forever, and set up thy throne from generation to generation. Selah. [No book]
[5]O Lord, even the heavens shall praise thy wondrous work: yea, thy truth in the congregation of the saints. [No book]
[6]For who is equal to the Lord in the heaven? And who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods? [No book]
[7]God is very terrible in the assembly of the saints, and to be reverenced above all, that are about him. [No book]
[8]O Lord God of hosts, who is like unto thee, which art a mighty Lord, and thy truth is about thee? [No book]
[9]Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. [No book]
[10]Thou hast beaten down Rahab as a man slain: thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy mighty arm. [No book]
[11]The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast laid the foundation of the world, and all that therein is. [No book]
[12]Thou hast created the north and the south: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. [No book]
[13]Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thine hand , and high is thy right hand. [No book]
[14]Righteousness and equity are the stablishment of thy throne: mercy and truth go before thy face. [No book]
[15]Blessed is the people, that can rejoice in thee: they shall walk in the light of thy countenance, O Lord. [No book]
[16]They shall rejoice continually in thy name, and in thy righteousness shall they exalt themselves. [No book]
[17]For thou art the glory of their strength, and by thy favor our horns shall be exalted. [No book]
[18]For our shield appertaineth to the Lord, and our King to the Holy One of Israel. [No book]
[19]Thou spakest then in a vision unto thine Holy One, and saidest, I have laid help upon one that is mighty: I have exalted one chosen out of the people. [No book]
[20]I have found David my servant: with mine holy oil have I anointed him. [No book]
[21]Therefore mine hand shall be established with him, and mine arm shall strengthen him. [No book]
[22]The enemy shall not oppress him, neither shall the wicked hurt him. [No book]
[23]But I will destroy his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. [No book]
[24]My truth also and my mercy shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted. [No book]
[25]I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the floods. [No book]
[26]He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, my God and the rock of my salvation. [No book]
[27]Also I will make him my first born, higher than the kings of the earth. [No book]
[28]My mercy will I keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. [No book]
[29]His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. [No book]
[30]But if his children forsake my Law, and walk not in my judgments: [No book]
[31]If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments: [No book]
[32]Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with strokes. [No book]
[33]Yet my loving kindness will I not take from him, neither will I falsify my truth. [No book]
[34]My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. [No book]
[35]I have sworn once by mine holiness, that I will not fail David, saying, [No book]
[36]His seed shall endure forever, and his throne shall be as the sun before me. [No book]
[37]He shall be established forevermore as the moon, and as a faithful witness in the heaven. Selah. [No book]
[38]But thou hast rejected and abhorred, thou hast been angry with thine Anointed. [No book]
[39]Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant , and profaned his crown, casting it on the ground. [No book]
[40]Thou hast broken down all his walls: thou hast laid his fortresses in ruin. [No book]
[41]All that go by the way, spoil him: he is a rebuke unto his neighbors. [No book]
[42]Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies, and made all his adversaries to rejoice. [No book]
[43]Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle. [No book]
[44]Thou hast caused his dignity to decay, and cast his throne to the ground. [No book]
[45]The days of his youth hast thou shortened, and covered him with shame. Selah. [No book]
[46]Lord, how long wilt thou hide thyself, forever? Shall thy wrath burn like fire? [No book]
[47]Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vain all the children of men? [No book]
[48]What man liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. [No book]
[49]Lord, where are thy former mercies, which thou swearest unto David in thy truth? [No book]
[50]Remember, O Lord, the rebuke of thy servants, which I bear in my bosom of all the mighty people. [No book]
[51]For thine enemies have reproached thee, O Lord, because they have reproached the footsteps of thine Anointed. [No book]
[52]Praised be the Lord forevermore. So be it, even so be it. [No book]
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