Psalms 89:31

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
if they dishonor my statutesand do not keep my commands,

Hebrew Names Version
If they break my statutes, And don't keep my mitzvot;

King James Version
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

English Standard Version
if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments,

New Century Version
if they ignore my demands and disobey my commands,

New English Translation
if they break my rules and do not keep my commandments,

Amplified Bible
If they break My statutes And do not keep My commandments,

New American Standard Bible
If they violate My statutes And do not keep My commandments,

World English Bible
If they break my statutes, And don't keep my commandments;

Geneva Bible (1587)
If they breake my statutes, and keepe not my commandements:

Legacy Standard Bible
If they profane My statutesAnd do not keep My commandments,

Berean Standard Bible
if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,

Contemporary English Version
Or suppose they should disobey all of my teachings.

Complete Jewish Bible
"If his descendants abandon my Torah and fail to live by my rulings,

Darby Translation
If they profane my statutes, and keep not my commandments:

Easy-to-Read Version
if they break my laws and ignore my commands,

George Lamsa Translation
If they break my statutes and keep not my commandments;

Good News Translation
if they disregard my instructions and do not keep my commandments,

Lexham English Bible
if they defile my statutes and do not keep my commandments,

Literal Translation
if they profane My statutes and do not keep My commandments;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf his childre forsake my lawe, and walke not in my iudgmentes.

American Standard Version
If they break my statutes, And keep not my commandments;

Bible in Basic English
If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
If his children forsake My law, and walk not in Mine ordinances;

King James Version (1611)
If they breake my statutes, and keepe not my commandements:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
if they breake my statutes, and kepe not my commaundementes,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
if they should profane my ordinances, and not keep my commandments;

English Revised Version
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If thei maken vnhooli my riytfulnessis; and kepen not my comaundementis.

Update Bible Version
If they break my statutes, And don't keep my commandments;

Webster's Bible Translation
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

New King James Version
If they break My statutes And do not keep My commandments,

New Living Translation
if they do not obey my decrees and fail to keep my commands,

New Life Bible
and if they break My Laws and do not obey My Word,

New Revised Standard
if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If, my statutes, they profane, And, my commandments, do not keep:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(88-32) If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments:

Revised Standard Version
if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments,

Young's Literal Translation
If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
If they violate My statutes And do not keep My commandments,

Contextual Overview

¹⁹A long time ago you spoke in a vision, you spoke to your faithful beloved: "I've crowned a hero, I chose the best I could find; I found David, my servant, poured holy oil on his head, And I'll keep my hand steadily on him, yes, I'll stick with him through thick and thin. No enemy will get the best of him, no scoundrel will do him in. I'll weed out all who oppose him, I'll clean out all who hate him. I'm with him for good and I'll love him forever; I've set him on high—he's riding high! I've put Ocean in his one hand, River in the other; he'll call out, ‘Oh, my Father—my God, my Rock of Salvation!' Yes, I'm setting him apart as the First of the royal line, High King over all of earth's kings. I'll preserve him eternally in my love, I'll faithfully do all I so solemnly promised. I'll guarantee his family tree and underwrite his rule. If his children refuse to do what I tell them, if they refuse to walk in the way I show them, If they spit on the directions I give them and tear up the rules I post for them— I'll rub their faces in the dirt of their rebellion and make them face the music. But I'll never throw them out, never abandon or disown them. Do you think I'd withdraw my holy promise? or take back words I'd already spoken? I've given my word, my whole and holy word; do you think I would lie to David? His family tree is here for good, his sovereignty as sure as the sun, Dependable as the phases of the moon, inescapable as weather."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

break: Heb. profane, Psalms 55:20, *marg.

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 12:14 - the child Romans 11:1 - Hath God 1 Corinthians 11:30 - many

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If they break my statutes,.... Fixed, settled, appointed ordinances; such as are baptism and the Lord's supper, under the New Testament dispensation; which are the things that are unshaken, and will remain until the second coming of Christ: these are to be kept as they were first delivered; no change and alteration ought to be made in them; so to do is to break and violate them, or "profane" them, as the word i here used signifies; and which may be done by an unbecoming, irreverent, and indecent attendance on them; as was by some in the Corinthian church, of which the apostle complains, and who for it were taken notice of, and chastened by the Lord, 1 Corinthians 11:2, and keep not my commandments; which should be kept impartially, with great affection to them, from a principle of love to the Lord, with a view to his glory, and without trusting to and depending upon an obedience to them; for they are not grievous; and, besides, "in", though not "for", keeping them, there is great reward; and a contrary behaviour is displeasing to God: now this particular enumeration of offences, that may be committed by the children of God to Christ, show that all sorts of sins may be committed by them; sins of omission and commission; sins against the law, and against the Gospel; all but the unpardonable one; and that these, though they are observed in a way hereafter mentioned, yet are all forgiven.

i יחללו "prophanaverint", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If they break my statutes - Margin, “profane.” The Hebrew word means to pollute or defile; and the idea is, If they practically contemn them; if they regard them as things of nought, or treat them with disdain as a polluted or defiled thing. It is in this way that the mass of mankind do regard the commands of God. They treat them with no respect; they practically class them among objects that are polluted, and that are to be avoided as defiled and defiling.

And keep not my commandments - If they do not regulate their conduct by my laws.