Psalm 89:2 NKJV For I have said, “Mercy shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness You shall establish in the very heavens.”

Psalm 89:2 NKJV

For I have said, “Mercy shall be built up forever;
Your faithfulness You shall establish in the very heavens.”

"For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever." His heart was persuaded of it, and he had affirmed it as an indisputable truth. He was certain that upon a sure foundation the Lord intended to pile up a glorious palace of goodness—a house of refuge for all people, wherein the Son of David should for ever be glorified as the dispenser of heavenly grace. 

"Thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens." This divine edifice, he felt assured, would tower into the skies, and would be turreted with divine faithfulness even as its foundations were laid in eternal love. God's faithfulness is no thing of earth, for here nothing is firm, and all things savor of the changes of the moon and the fickleness of the sea: heaven is the birthplace of truth, and there it dwells in eternal vigor. As the blue arch above us remains unimpaired by age, so does the Lord's truth; as in the firmament he hangs his covenant bow, so in the upper heavens the faithfulness of God is enthroned in immutable glory. This Ethan said, and this we may say; come what will, mercy and faithfulness are built up by "the Eternal Builder," and his own nature is the guarantee for their perpetuity. This is to be called to mind whenever the church is in trouble, or our own spirits bowed down with grief. (Spurgeon)

Mercy shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness You shall establish: Ethan said this to declare the goodness of God. He noted the permanent, enduring character of God’s mercy and faithfulness, and how God had established these things. (Guzik)

i. Mercy shall be built up forever: The word mercy is “…another of the key words in 2 Samuel 7, with its play on the theme of the house David would have built for God, and the living house God would build instead for David.” (Kidner)

ii. “A building is an orderly thing as well as a fixed thing. There is a scheme and design about it. Mercy shall be built. God has gone about blessing us with designs that only his own infinite perfections could have completed.” (Spurgeon)

“Hesed” = unfailing love, loyal love, devotion, kindness, mercy - Bill