Psalms 89:34 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 89:34

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.

YLT

I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.

DBT

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

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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The CovenantsBook III closing — Davidic-covenant crisis.

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Cross-references

20 verses on the floor

Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
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?
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.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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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 (Ps 4:3). Nathan is meant (2Sa 7:17; 1Ch 17:3-15). laid help--literally, "given help." David was chosen and then exalted.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

This relation is perpetual with David's descendants, as a whole typical in official position of his last greatest descendant. Hence though in personal relations any of them might be faithless and so punished, their typical relation shall continue. His oath confirms His promise, and the most enduring objects of earth and heaven illustrate its perpetual force (Ps 72:5, 7, 17).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

(1.) If we apply it to David, by his seed we are to understand his successors, Solomon and the following kings of Judah, who descended from the loins of David. It is supposed that they might degenerate, and not walk in the spirit and steps of their father David; in such a case they must expect to come under divine rebukes, such as the house of David was at this time under,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 89:34MAT 24:35 NUM 23:19
Reached by 4 independent paths from here.
PSA 89:34MAT 24:35 ISA 40:8
PSA 89:34MAT 24:35 1PE 1:25
PSA 89:34MAT 24:35 ISA 55:11
PSA 89:34MAT 24:35 MAT 5:18
PSA 89:34MAL 3:6 HEB 13:8
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 89:34NUM 23:19 JAS 1:17
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 89:34NUM 23:19 MAL 3:6
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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