Psalm 89:34
New International Version
I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered.

New Living Translation
No, I will not break my covenant; I will not take back a single word I said.

English Standard Version
I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips.

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

King James Bible
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is 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 American Standard Bible
“I will not violate My covenant, Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.

NASB 1995
“My covenant I will not violate, Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.

NASB 1977
“My covenant I will not violate, Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.

Legacy Standard Bible
My covenant I will not profane, Nor will I alter what comes forth from My lips.

Amplified Bible
“My covenant I will not violate, Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.

Christian Standard Bible
I will not violate my covenant or change what my lips have said.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will not violate My covenant or change what My lips have said.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Neither shall I reject my covenant, nor shall I change a thing that is gone forth from my lips.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Neither will I by any means profane my covenant; and I will not make void the things that proceed out of my lips.

Contemporary English Version
"I won't break my agreement or go back on my word.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I will not dishonor my promise or alter my own agreement.

Good News Translation
I will not break my covenant with him or take back even one promise I made him.

International Standard Version
I will not dishonor my covenant, because I will not change what I have spoken.

JPS Tanakh 1917
My covenant will I not profane, Nor alter that which is gone out of My lips.

Literal Standard Version
I do not profane My covenant, | And I do not change that which is going forth from My lips.

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

New American Bible
I will not violate my covenant; the promise of my lips I will not alter.

NET Bible
I will not break my covenant or go back on what I promised.

New Revised Standard Version
I will not violate my covenant, or alter the word that went forth from my lips.

New Heart English Bible
I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

Webster's Bible Translation
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that hath gone out of my lips.

World English Bible
I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

Young's Literal Translation
I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
I Will Sing of His Love Forever
33But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness. 34I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips. 35Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness—I will not lie to David—…

Cross References
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?

Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

Psalm 55:20
My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.

Psalm 89:28
I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.

Isaiah 54:10
Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

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,

Jeremiah 33:21
then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.


Treasury of Scripture

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

covenant

Leviticus 26:44
And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

Jeremiah 14:21
Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

Jeremiah 33:20
Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

nor

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?

Malachi 3:6
For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

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

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Psalm 89
1. The psalmist praises God for his covenant
5. For his wonderful power
15. For the care of his church
19. For his favor to the kingdom of David
38. Then complaining of contrary events
46. He expostulates, prays, and blesses God.














Verse 34. - My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips (comp. ver. 28, and the comment ad loc.). With God is "no variableness, neither shadow of turning" (James 1:17).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I will not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

violate
אֲחַלֵּ֥ל (’ă·ḥal·lêl)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play

My covenant
בְּרִיתִ֑י (bə·rî·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1285: A covenant

or
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

alter
אֲשַׁנֶּֽה׃ (’ă·šan·neh)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 8138: To fold, duplicate, to transmute

the utterance
וּמוֹצָ֥א (ū·mō·w·ṣā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4161: A place or act of going forth, issue, export, source, spring

of My lips.
שְׂ֝פָתַ֗י (p̄ā·ṯay)
Noun - fdc | first person common singular
Strong's 8193: The lip, language, a margin


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