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Psalms 89:26

He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
Psalms 89:26, World English Bible
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What does Psalms 89:26 mean?

The speaker here is anticipating a deeply personal relationship with God, one where he can address the Almighty with the intimacy of calling him Father. This isn't arrogance or presumption, but rather the psalmist expressing confidence that God wants to be known and trusted in this close way. By describing God as both "rock" and "salvation," he's combining the idea of God as something immovable and secure with the reality that God actively rescues and restores. It's a beautiful picture of what it means to belong to God: not as a distant subject to a remote ruler, but as a child certain of protection and love from someone utterly reliable.