if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;
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if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;
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If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
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(89-32) If they profane My statutes, and keep not My commandments;
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- Psalms 55:20 He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 89:31 If they break my statutes, and keep…
Psa 89:31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
Ver. 31. If they break my statutes] Heb. If they profane or make void; q. d. be their sins never so heinous, I will forgive them; though I take vengeance (temporal) of their inventions, Psa 99:8.
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And keep not my commandments] Not-serving of God, not-sacrificing is a sin, Mal 3:18 Ecc 9:2. See Psa 89:30.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain By this variety of expressions he implies that God…
By this variety of expressions he implies that God will pardon not only their lesser, but even their greater sins.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then will I visit their transgression with the rod,....…
Then will I visit their transgression with the rod,.... That is, of men; as in Sa2 7:14, the Lord making use of men to chastise his people by, as he did of the neighbouring nations of the Jews, when they sinned against him; and so the Targum interprets it here,
"I will visit their transgressions by the hands of the tribes of the ungodly;''
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or with such afflictions as are common to men, Co1 10:13, in a kind, humane, moderate way, in measure, in judgment, and not in wrath and hot displeasure; or in such like manner as a man chastises his children, which is in love, Deu 8:5.
and their iniquity with stripes; such as diseases of body, loss of relations, crosses and disappointments in the world; not with the stripes of divine vengeance, of vindictive justice, such as Christ, the surety of his people, endured for them; but with the scourges of a father, Isa 53:8.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain If they break my statutes - Margin, “profane.” The…
If they break my statutes - Margin, “profane.” The Hebrew word means to pollute or defile; and the idea is, If they practically contemn them; if they regard them as things of nought, or treat them with disdain as a polluted or defiled thing. It is in this way that the mass of mankind do regard the commands of God. They treat them with no respect; they practically class them among objects that are polluted, and that are to be avoided as defiled and defiling.
And keep not my commandments - If they do not regulate their conduct by my laws.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 31. If they break] Lit. profane.
31. If they break] Lit. profane.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain If they break my statutes, and keep not my…
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; rather, if they profane my statutes; i.e. make light of them, either in their words or in their lives.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 31. If they break my statutes, and keep…
Ver. 31. If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments. The dreadful "if" is suggested again, and the sad case is stated in other forms. But if it should be so, what then? Death and rejection? Ah, no; Blessed be God, No! If their sin be negative or positive, if it be forsaking or profanation; if either judgments or commandments or both be violated, yet there is not a word as to final destruction, but the very reverse. Legalism will import its ifs, but the Lord slays the ifs as fast as they rise. Eternal shalls and wills make glorious havoc among the ifs and buts.
Psalms 89:32*
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