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King James Version

Psalms 89:34

My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Covenant;   David;   God;   Government;   The Topic Concordance - Covenant;   Government;   Throne;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Covenant, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ethan;   Faithfulness;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   David;   Oath;   Samuel, books of;   Type, typology;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Covenant;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Expiation, Propitiation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethan;   Ezrahite;   Lovingkindness;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Israel, Israelite;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - David;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Break;   Covenant, in the Old Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Lying;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
My covenant I will not profane,Nor will I alter what comes forth from My lips.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"My covenant I will not violate, Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll not violate my couenaunt: nor alter the thyng that is gone out of my lyppes.
Darby Translation
My covenant will I not profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
New King James Version
My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.
Literal Translation
I will not profane My covenant, nor change what goes from My lips.
Easy-to-Read Version
I will not break my agreement with David. I will never change what I said.
World English Bible
I will not break my covenant, Nor alter what my lips have uttered.
King James Version (1611)
My couenant will I not breake: nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lippes.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuerthelesse, my louynge kyndnesse wil I not vtterly take from him, ner fuffre my trueth to fayle.
Amplified Bible
"My covenant I will not violate, Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.
American Standard Version
My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Bible in Basic English
I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.
Update Bible Version
My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips.
Webster's Bible Translation
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that hath gone out of my lips.
New English Translation
I will not break my covenant or go back on what I promised.
Contemporary English Version
"I won't break my agreement or go back on my word.
Complete Jewish Bible
But I won't withdraw my grace from him or be false to my faithfulness.
Geneva Bible (1587)
My couenant wil I not breake, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
George Lamsa Translation
Neither will I reject my covenant, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Hebrew Names Version
I will not break my covenant, Nor alter what my lips have uttered.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But My mercy will I not break off from him, nor will I be false to My faithfulness.
New Living Translation
No, I will not break my covenant; I will not take back a single word I said.
New Life Bible
I will not break My agreement, or change what was spoken by My lips.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Neither will I by any means profane my covenant; and I will not make void the things that proceed out of my lips.
English Revised Version
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Berean Standard Bible
I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
New Revised Standard
I will not violate my covenant, or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I will not violate my covenant, And that which hath proceeded out of my lips, will I not alter:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(88-35) Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void.
Lexham English Bible
I will not defile my covenant, or alter what proceeded from my lips.
English Standard Version
I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
New American Standard Bible
"I will not violate My covenant, Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.
New Century Version
I will not break my agreement nor change what I have said.
Good News Translation
I will not break my covenant with him or take back even one promise I made him.
Christian Standard Bible®
I will not violate My covenant or change what My lips have said.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Nethir Y schal make vnhooli my testament; and Y schal not make voide tho thingis that comen forth of my lippis.
Young's Literal Translation
I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.
Revised Standard Version
I will not violate my covenant, or alter the word that went forth from my lips.

Contextual Overview

19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. 20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: 21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him. 22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. 23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. 24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. 25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. 26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. 27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. 28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

covenant: Leviticus 26:44, Jeremiah 14:21, Jeremiah 33:20

nor: Numbers 23:19, Malachi 3:6, Matthew 24:35, Romans 11:29, James 1:17

Reciprocal: Judges 2:1 - I will never 2 Samuel 7:15 - But my Psalms 55:20 - broken Psalms 74:20 - Have Psalms 89:3 - made Psalms 89:28 - covenant Psalms 89:39 - void Psalms 110:4 - Lord Psalms 111:5 - he will Psalms 119:152 - thy testimonies Isaiah 54:10 - the covenant Jeremiah 33:21 - may Jeremiah 44:26 - I have sworn Romans 9:4 - covenants

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My covenant will I not break,.... Not the covenant at Sinai, as Aben Ezra, but the covenant of grace made with Christ, and which stands fast with him, Psalms 89:3, which is firm, sure, and stable, and as immovable as mountains and hills, and more so, 2 Samuel 23:5 or "profane" m it, though his people profane his statutes, Psalms 89:31, he will not profane his covenant; though they violate his laws, he is a God keeping covenant with them, and will not break his word with them:

nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips; any promise of his, respecting either the temporal, spiritual, or eternal welfare of his people: or "not change" n; as he changes not in his nature and perfections, nor in his love and affections, nor in his counsels and purposes; so neither in his covenant and promises, they are always the same, and have a certain and unchangeable accomplishment; there is a performance of whatsoever is spoken by the Lord, Luke 1:45.

m לא אחלל "non prophanabo", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, &c. n לא אשנה "non mutabo", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My covenant will I not break - literally, I will not pollute, defile, profane. See the notes at Psalms 89:31, where the same word is used. God says that he will not do in regard to the covenant as they had done.

Nor alter the thing ... - The promise which I have made. I will not make it a different thing. I will not modify its conditions, or withdraw it. It shall stand precisely as it was when I uttered it. What God promises will be exactly performed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 89:34. My covenant will I not break — My determination to establish a spiritual kingdom, the head of which shall be Jesus, the son of David, shall never fail. My prophets have declared this, and I will not alter the thing that is gone out of my mouth.


 
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