Psalms 89:34 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 89:34

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 4 (1874)

My covenant will I not break. It is his own covenant. He devised it, drew up the draft of it, and voluntarily entered into it: he therefore thinks much of it. It is not a man's covenant, but the Lord claims it as his own. It is an evil thing among men for one to be a "covenant breaker", and such an opprobrious epithet shall never be applicable to the Most High. Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(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,

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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).

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
אֲחַלֵּ֥ל	'a.cha.Lel	I will violate	H2490 →
בְּרִיתִ֑י	be.ri.Ti	covenant my	H1285 →
וּמוֹצָ֥א	u.mo.Tza'	and [the] utterance of	H4161 →
שְׂ֝פָתַ֗י	Se.fa.Tai	lips my	H8193 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
אֲשַׁנֶּֽה׃	'a.sha.Neh	I will change	H8138 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
leads to
- Numbers 23:19
  God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
  Reached by 4 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 40:8
  The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
- 1 Peter 1:25
  but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
- Isaiah 55:11
  so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
- Matthew 5:18
  For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
Through
Malachi 3:6
“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
leads to
- Hebrews 13:8
  Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
leads to
- James 1:17
  Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Malachi 3:6
  “Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Psalms