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I Will Sing of His Love Forever

Psalms 89:34

In 11 translations

BSB
I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
KJV
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
WEB
I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
ASV
My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
LSV
I do not profane My covenant, || And I do not change that which is going forth from My lips.
YLT
I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.
DBY
My covenant will I not profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
DRC88:35
Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void.
GNV
My couenant wil I not breake, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
JPS89:35
My covenant will I not profane, nor alter that which is gone out of My lips.
LXXE88:35
Neither will I by any means profane my covenant; and I will not make void the things that proceed out of my lips.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC89:35
לֹא־אֲחַלֵּ֥ל בְּרִיתִ֑י וּמוֹצָ֥א שְׂ֝פָתַ֗י לֹ֣א אֲשַׁנֶּֽה׃KJV:Ps.89.34
LXX-Br88:35
οὐδὲ μὴ βεβηλώσω τὴν διαθήκην μου, καὶ τὰ ἐκπορευόμενα διὰ τῶν χειλέων μου οὐ μὴ ἀθετήσω.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Numbers 23:19God 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?
  • Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
  • James 1:17Every 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.
  • Malachi 3:6“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
  • Romans 11:29For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.
  • Jeremiah 14:21For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.
  • Leviticus 26:44Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
  • Jeremiah 33:20“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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  • 89:35 in some Bibles
  • 89:34 in most Bibles

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