Psalms 89:2 meaning and explanation

For I have said, “Loving devotion is built up forever; in the heavens You establish Your faithfulness.”

Psalms 89:2, Berean Standard Bible

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Ethan the Ezrahite speaks these words near the start of a psalm that celebrates God's covenant with David and then laments its apparent collapse. The verse gives the reason for his praise in verse 1: he has resolved within himself that God's covenant love, the Hebrew chesed, is firmly and permanently built up, and that God's faithfulness is fixed in the heavens as a stable, unshakeable reality.

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