Psalm 145:13 Two verses in one- Where is the Nun?

I am so glad that we have passages in our Bibles like this verse, that challenge us to look not only to the oldest manuscripts, nor only the majority of manuscripts, but using every resource God has made available to us such that we know what He communicated to mankind, what He inspired men to write under direction of the Holy Spirit, and the preservation of the manifold riches of the glory and beauty of the character of God Almighty, the one true and living God in three eternally co-existent and co-substantial Persons. And yet, with even a moderate effort on the part of the Christian seeking God's truth, this passage, or its lack of inclusion in some translations tends to make people wonder about the preservation of the Bible and whether it can be trusted. If you want to learn more about this subject, I suggest to you the ministry of Dr. James White of Alpha Omega Ministries.

For now, let us look as we often have at this verse in various versions. You will see that some seem to be missing a part of this verse, or have added something which doesn't belong there. Being that this psalm is a Hebrew acrostic, and that Hebrew has 22 letters, and that this pattern is used in other psalms, specifically in Psalm 119, where each Hebrew letter is represented with an 8 verse section. So, if this passage rightly has only 21 verses (a modern invention, not inspired) then is verse 13 really broken in two and numbered incorrectly, does the verse not belong there, and what can we learn from variants in manuscript traditions? Is anything left out by not having the second part, the verse that begins in Hebrew with a "nun" or the letter "N" in English? One could go on for some time researching such things, but today I really just want to enjoy the passage while also wishing to answer the recent question about this "missing verse"... or is it "the added verse"?

Without further adieu, I give you multiple translations of Psalm 145: 11 as it appears in various English translations of the Bible.

NASB- "Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
And Your dominion endures throughout all generations."

KJV- "Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, 

and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations."

ESV- "Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,

 and your dominion endures throughout all generations.

[The Lord is faithful in all his words  and kind in all his works.]

NIV-"Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,

and your dominion endures through all generations.

The Lord is trustworthy in all he promises and faithful in all he does."

One manuscript of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls and Syriac (see also Septuagint); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text do not have the last two lines of verse 13.

Before everyone starts ranting about the perversion of the NIV, note that the translators here are honest about their choices to include the "Nun verse" in the text, completing the acrostic, whereas others leave it out due to the challenge of which are the most authoritative, earliest, or most copied manuscripts. In my study, I have found that most charges against the NIV deleting verses are without merit. In fact, if anything they are being quite open about the challenges of such an endeavor as translating the Bible into modern languages, and don't forget that some of the versions we have available to us were translated long before we found the Dead Sea Scrolls and other major discoveries of ancient manuscripts and copies which today we have access to from our homes. We can go buy a Greek New Testament, learn the language and all its nuances, or we can trust the collection of men who God has used to preserve and protect His Word. 

So what does all this mean to you and I, the average American Christian who isn't up on the latest issues challenging textual critics, the liberals vs. the conservatives, the purist along with the one desiring to just understand God's truth? Considering in this passage, the "added" part of the verse is actually repeating other things that appear in the context, I cannot imagine anyone actually having a problem with affirming that "The LORD is trustworthy in all He promises and faithful in all He does." If you don't believe that is in wholehearted agreement with inspired Scripture, then you haven't been reading Psalm 145. The rest of the chapter certainly bears witness to the truth of this portion, giving me no reason to leave it from our discussion. 

Verses 11-13 take us through the proclamation of God's Kindgom, His power, and the multigenerational approach to making sure God's truth is passed on to others, equipping them to train the next generation, and so on. This multigenerational teaching is not limited to father or mothers to their own children, but elders to the saints in the local church, older women instructing the younger to obey that which God prepared and commanded of them, and for the father training his sons to be men of God. It even includes the elderly widow in a nursing home sharing the Gospel with fellow residents, singing praise to God wherever you find yourself, preaching on the street corner, attending church services that lift high the name of Jesus and every other way one can obey these commands to sing and shout of the mercies of God in Christ Jesus, until every knee bows and every tongue confesses that Jesus Christ IS Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 

You can see all translations agree on the dominion of the Kingdom of God, the only everlasting Kingdom which ever has or ever will exist. God rules above the heavens, for He has created them. Consider John chapter 1, 1 John 1, Hebrews 1, and other passages that speak of the beauty of God become man in the person of Jesus Christ, the God/man whose sinless and self-sacrificial life is the only reason a man like David, a murderer and adulterer, could hope that repentance and faith would bring forgiveness of his grave sins. Trusting in the everlasting King rather than his own kingdom of Israel is infinitely more wise, and we know from Scripture that God holds and turns the heart of the kings of the Earth in His hand and turns them however He will. 

This speaks of the sovereignty of God, the depravity of man, and the desperate need for a perfect Savior who has also defeated death, which is our due payment, or wages, of our sin. The free gift of God, eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord, would never be possible unless the Kingdom of God was an everlasting, undefeatable Kingdom, whose soldiers are ever storming the gates of Hell, knowing that even the Devil is God's devil. God made Satan, a conquered foe that is just waiting for the time when he will be finally cast into the Lake of Fire, the final judgment, never to raise his voice or marshall his troops against the True King. 

If God was not faithful and trustworthy (and able) to keep His promises, then we should just throw out our Bibles and walk away. If God could fail, then our faith is unstable and not worth laboring in, let alone giving our lives to. However, God is true and faithful, in fact we read in 1  Timothy that "if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself". God's very character is faithfulness, truth, justice, if anything these are terrifying attributes to those who hate God and live in disobedience to Him, which is every person living today besides those who were given new life in Christ, purchased with His blood, who are born again to a new and living hope. 

This hope is missing from the lives of those who neglect to worship Jesus Christ, repent and believe that He alone can save them. Their lives scurry about worrying about everything from finances to housing, how people view them, who they need to please, or how they will acquire the latest and greatest cure for their eternal hopelessness and embrace of the logical conclusion of a worthless existence because of their flagrant rejection and turning directly opposite the only way that leads to everlasting life. But this lack of hope is not a reason to stop preaching the Gospel, in fact, knowing God's power to choose and save those whom He wills, as revealed in Ephesians chapter 1, rather it is the motivator for the Christian to love and obey the Master who bought them with His blood by proclaiming His nature and His offer of salvation to all nations, every ethnicity, every tribe, tongue, and nation, including breaking down the cultural false barriers that say that we shouldn't impose our beliefs on others. 

Indeed, Jesus said to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature, to make disciples. He didn't say to avoid hard cases, to avoid the homeless, the divorced and single parents, the seemingly moral person who claims to be irreligious. We are to go to all, and proclaim all the Gospel. The only hope for the soul destined for Hell due to their sin (that is everyone without Christ) is the proclamation of the Gospel, in person, by email, letter, song, preaching, tracts, and many other ways which the one who loves Jesus and obeys Him as Lord and Master will employ to make Christ and His Gospel known, no matter the cost to their reputation, finances, dedicating themselves wholly to the King of Kings to fill and to proclaim His Kingdom. 

We know that God is faithful, we know His Kingdom endures forever, even if we don't have "the nun verse", but I argue that the inclusion of the verse is warranted and changes nothing except to broaden and widen the praise and glory of God. Read His Word, know His truth, follow His ways, and do all to the glory of God. Go in His grace today and fill your heart with His praise until it spills from your lips! He is worthy!