Psalms 89:34
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Psalms 89:34 in other translations
| BSB | I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips. |
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| WEB | I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered. |
| ASV | My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. |
| YLT | I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not. |
| DARBY | My covenant will I not profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. |
| BBE | I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed. |
| Webster | My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that hath gone out of my lips. |
What does Psalms 89:34 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 89:19-37
19-37. Then--when the covenant was established, of whose execution the exalted views of God now given furnish assurance. thou ... to thy holy one--or godly saint, object of favor (Psa 4:3). Nathan is meant (2Sa 7:17; 1Ch 17:3-15). laid help--literally, "given help." David was chosen and then exalted.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 89:19-37
The Lord anointed David with the holy oil, not only as an emblem of the graces and gifts he received, but as a type of Christ, the King Priest, and Prophet, anointed with the Holy Ghost without measure. David after his anointing, was persecuted, but none could gain advantage against him. Yet all this was a faint shadow of the Redeemer's sufferings, deliverance, glory, and authority, in whom alone these predictions…
Psalms 89:34 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 89:34
- Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
- Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
- James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
- Malachi 3:6
For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
- Romans 11:29
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
- Jeremiah 14:21
Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
- Leviticus 26:44
And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.
- Jeremiah 33:20
Thus saith the Lord; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Psalms 89:33
Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
- Psalms 89:34
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- Psalms 89:35
Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
Psalms 89:34 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No olvidaré mi pacto, ni mudaré lo que ha salido de mis labios. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mais je ne retirerai pas de lui ma bonté, et je ne démentirai pas ma fidélité; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Nicht werde ich entweihen meinen Bund, und nicht ändern, was hervorgegangen ist aus meinen Lippen. |