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I Will Sing of His Love Forever

Psalms 89:39

In 11 translations

BSB
You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
KJV
Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
WEB
You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
ASV
Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
LSV
Have rejected the covenant of Your servant, || You have defiled his crown to the earth,
YLT
Hast rejected the covenant of Thy servant, Thou hast polluted to the earth his crown,
DBY
Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant; thou hast profaned his crown to the ground:
DRC88:40
Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his sanctuary on the earth.
GNV
Thou hast broken the couenant of thy seruant, and profaned his crowne, casting it on the ground.
JPS89:40
Thou hast abhorred the covenant of Thy servant; Thou hast profaned his crown even to the ground.
LXXE88:40
Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant; thou hast profaned his sanctuary, casting it to the ground.

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Original-language editions

WLC89:40
נֵ֭אַרְתָּה בְּרִ֣ית עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ חִלַּ֖לְתָּ לָאָ֣רֶץ נִזְרֽוֹ׃KJV:Ps.89.39
LXX-Br88:40
Κατέστρεψας τὴν διαθήκην τοῦ δούλου σου, ἐβεβήλωσας εἰς τὴν γῆν τὸ ἁγίασμα αὐτοῦ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
  • Psalms 74:7They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
  • Psalms 89:34–36I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips. Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness— I will not lie to David— his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
  • Isaiah 43:28So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”
  • Psalms 77:10So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
  • Psalms 143:3For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
  • Isaiah 25:12The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.
  • John 13:7Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”
  • Psalms 116:11In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
  • Psalms 89:44You have ended his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.

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

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  • 89:40 in some Bibles
  • 89:39 in most Bibles

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