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New Century Version

Psalms 89:34

I will not break my agreement nor change what I have said.

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

Christian Standard Bible®
I will not violate my covenantor change what my lips have said.
Hebrew Names Version
I will not break my covenant, Nor alter what my lips have uttered.
King James Version
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
English Standard Version
I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
New English Translation
I will not break my covenant or go back on what I promised.
Amplified Bible
"My covenant I will not violate, Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.
New American Standard Bible
"I will not violate My covenant, Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.
World English Bible
I will not break my covenant, Nor alter what my lips have uttered.
Geneva Bible (1587)
My couenant wil I not breake, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Legacy Standard Bible
My covenant I will not profane,Nor will I alter what comes forth from My lips.
Berean Standard Bible
I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
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.
Darby Translation
My covenant will I not profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Easy-to-Read Version
I will not break my agreement with David. I will never change what I said.
George Lamsa Translation
Neither will I reject my covenant, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Good News Translation
I will not break my covenant with him or take back even one promise I made him.
Lexham English Bible
I will not defile my covenant, or alter what proceeded from my lips.
Literal Translation
I will not profane My covenant, nor change what goes from My lips.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuerthelesse, my louynge kyndnesse wil I not vtterly take from him, ner fuffre my trueth to fayle.
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But My mercy will I not break off from him, nor will I be false to My faithfulness.
King James Version (1611)
My couenant will I not breake: nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lippes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll not violate my couenaunt: nor alter the thyng that is gone out of my lyppes.
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Nethir Y schal make vnhooli my testament; and Y schal not make voide tho thingis that comen forth of my lippis.
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 King James Version
My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.
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.
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.
Revised Standard Version
I will not violate my covenant, or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
Young's Literal Translation
I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"My covenant I will not violate, Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.

Contextual Overview

19 Once, in a vision, you spoke to those who worship you. You said, "I have given strength to a warrior; I have raised up a young man from my people. 20 I have found my servant David; I appointed him by pouring holy oil on him. 21 I will steady him with my hand and strengthen him with my arm. 22 No enemy will make him give forced payments, and wicked people will not defeat him. 23 I will crush his enemies in front of him; I will defeat those who hate him. 24 My loyalty and love will be with him. Through me he will be strong. 25 I will give him power over the sea and control over the rivers. 26 He will say to me, ‘You are my father, my God, the Rock, my Savior.' 27 I will make him my firstborn son, the greatest king on earth. 28 My love will watch over him forever, and my agreement with him will never end.

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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