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49 Who can live and never experience death?
    Who can save himself from the power of the netherworld? Selah
50 [a]Where is your kindness of old, O Lord,
    which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
51 Remember, O Lord, the insults hurled at your servant;
    recall how I have borne in my heart the slanders of all the peoples.

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  1. Psalm 89:50 May the God who made the promise to David not prove insensitive to the king removed from his throne and the people exiled from their kingdom and forced to experience the taunts of the Gentiles. The believer awaits a new discovery of God, as happened in days gone by at the beginnings of love.

49 Lord, where is your former great love,
    which in your faithfulness you swore to David?
50 Remember, Lord, how your servant has[a] been mocked,(A)
    how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations,
51 the taunts with which your enemies, Lord, have mocked,
    with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one.(B)

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  1. Psalm 89:50 Or your servants have