But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
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But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
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Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
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(89-34) But My mercy will I not break off from him, nor will I be false to My faithfulness.
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Passages linked to Psalms 89:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 54:8-10 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer. “For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
- 2 Samuel 7:15 but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
- Lamentations 3:31-32 For the Lord will not cast off forever. For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
- Jeremiah 33:20-26 “Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time; then may my covenant also be broken with David my servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’ ” Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying, “Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has Yahweh cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.” Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”
- Hebrews 6:18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
- 1 Samuel 15:29 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”
- 1 Kings 11:36 I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.
- 2 Samuel 7:13 He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
- 1 Kings 11:13 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”
- 1 Kings 11:32 (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);
- 1 Corinthians 15:25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
- Psalms 89:39 You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Though the faithful answer not in all points to…
Though the faithful answer not in all points to their profession, yet God will not break his Covenant with them.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 89:33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly…
Psa 89:33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Ver. 33. Nevertheless my lovingkindness, &c.] For that were to break covenant: I will correct him in mercy, and in measure. Sinite virgam corrigentem, ne sentiatis malleum conterentem, saith Bernard.
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Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail] Non mentiar in veritate mea, God is very careful to keep touch with his.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain My loving-kindness; my mercy promised to David.
My loving-kindness; my mercy promised to David.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain My covenant will I not break,.... Not the covenant…
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, Psa 89:3, which is firm, sure, and stable, and as immovable as mountains and hills, and more so, Sa2 23:5 or "profane" (m) it, though his people profane his statutes, Psa 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, Luk 1:45.
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(m) "non prophanabo", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, &c. (n) "non mutabo", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, &c.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Nevertheless my loving-kindness - My mercy; my favor. I…
Nevertheless my loving-kindness - My mercy; my favor. I will not utterly cast him off. He shall not be in the condition of those who are my enemies, or who are entirely forsaken.
Will I not utterly take from him - Margin, “I will not make void from.” The Hebrew word - פרר pârar - means to break, to break in pieces; then, to violate, as a covenant; then, to make vain, to bring to nought, to frustrate; then, to annul, to abolish. The idea here is that of making entirely vain; wholly removing from; or taking completely away. The meaning is, that he would not wholly take away his favor; he would not entirely abandon him; he would not suffer him to become wholly apostate; he would not leave him to ruin. The covenant once made would be accomplished; the promise given would be carried out.
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Nor suffer my faithfulness - My faithfulness as pledged in the covenant or promise. “To fail.” Margin,” lie.” I will not prove false, or deal falsely in the pledge which I have made. It shall not appear at last that I have made a promise which has not been kept. This passage contains a very important principle in regard to the dealings of God with his people. The principle is, that if people are converted, if they in fact become his people - he will never suffer them wholly to fall away and perish. They may be suffered to backslide; they may fall into sin, but they will not be allowed to go so far as to apostatize wholly. They will be brought back again. Whatever method may be necessary for this, will be adopted. Commands; warnings; entreaties; remonstrances; - their own experience; the admonitions of others; the influences of the Holy Spirit: judgments and calamities; sickness; loss of property; bereavement; disappointment; disgrace; any of these, or all of these, may be resorted to, in order to bring them back; but they will be brought back. God, in mercy and in love, will so visit them with sorrow and trouble that they shall be recovered, and that their “spirit shall be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 33. But my lovingkindness will I not break off…
33. But my lovingkindness will I not break off from him,
Neither be false to my faithfulness.
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The word rendered break off is an unusual one to apply to lovingkindness, and its form is anomalous. The change of one letter however gives the word used in 1Ch_17:13, I will not take away, and this emendation should probably be adopted. Be false to is the word found in 1Sa_15:29, “The Strength of Israel will not lie.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take…
Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. Compare the original promise; (2Sa_7:15) and see also 1Ki_11:12, 1Ki_11:13, 34-39 15:4, 5, etc. The seed of David was not allowed to fail, but was continued on, until, in the fulness of time, there was born into the world, of David"s seed and in David"s city, One in whom all the promises made to David could be, and were, accomplished in their utmost fulness.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 33. Nevertheless. And a glorious nevertheless too! Nevertheless…
Ver. 33. Nevertheless. And a glorious nevertheless too! Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him. O glorious fear killing sentence! This crowns the covenant with exceeding glory. Mercy may seem to depart from the Lord's chosen, but it shall never altogether do so. Jesus still enjoys the divine favour, and we are in him, and therefore under the most trying circumstances the Lord's lovingkindness to each one of his chosen will endure the strain. If the covenant could be made void by our sins it would have been void long ere this; and if renewed its tenure would not be worth an hour's purchase if it had remained dependent upon us. God may leave his people, and they may thereby suffer much and fall very low, but utterly and altogether he never can remove his love from them; for that would be to cast a reflection upon his own truth, and this he will never allow, for he adds,
nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. Man fails in all points, but God in none. To be faithful is one of the eternal characteristics of God, in which he always places a great part of his glory: his truth is one of his peculiar treasures and crown jewels, and he will never endure that it should be tarnished in any degree. This passage sweetly assures us that the heirs of glory shall not be utterly cast off. Let those deny the safety of the saints who choose to do so, we have not so learned Christ. We believe in the gospel rod, but not in the penal sword for the adopted sons.
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Ver. 33. Nevertheless my lovingkindness, etc. Except the covenant of grace had this article in it for remission of sin and for fatherly correction, to drive unto repentance, that the penitent person coming to God by faith might have sin forgiven him and lovingkindness shown to him; this covenant should fail us no less than the covenant of works. David Dickson.
Ver. 33. I will not utterly take from him. Why "from him?" Because all God's lovingkindness to his people is centred in Christ. Does God love you? it is because he loves Christ; you are one with Christ. Your transgressions are your own; they are separate from Christ; but God's love is not your own; it is Christ's: you receive it because you are one with him. How beautifully that is distinguished here"If they transgress, I will punish them; but my lovingkindness will I not take from him" in whom alone they find it; and in union with whom alone they enjoy it. Capel Molyneux.
Ver. 33. From him. The words, "Nevertheless my lovingkindness will not utterly take from him", are worthy of consideration; for the question being about those who are chastised, it would appear that he should have written, from them, and not from him. But the prophet has thus worded it, because, being the children and members of his Christ, the favours which God bestows upon us belong to him in some manner; and it seems that the Psalmist wishes to show us hereby, that it is in Jesus Christ, and for love of him alone, that God bestows favours on us. And that which follows, in Ps 89:34 verse, agrees herewith, My covenant will I not break for it is properly to Jesus Christ, on account of his admirable obedience, that God the Father has promised to be merciful to our iniquities, and never to leave one of those to perish who are in covenant with him. Jean Daille.
Ver. 33. Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. Man's faith may fail him sometimes, but God's faithfulness never fails him: God will not suffer his faithfulness to fail. God's operations may have an aspect that way; the devil's temptations, and our unbelieving hearts, may not only make us think so, but persuade us it is so, whereas it cannot be so, for the Lord will not suffer it, he will not make a lie in his truth or faithfulness; so the Hebrew is: he is a God that cannot lie, he is Truth, speaks truth, and not one of his promises can or shall fail; which may afford strong consolation unto all that are under any promise of God. William Greenhill.
Psalms 89:34*
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 I will not remove my steadfast love from him…
I will not remove my steadfast love from him or be unfaithful to my promise
This can be stated in positive form. AT: "I will always love David, and I will do what I promised to him" (See: Litotes)
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the words of my lips
Here "lips" represent the whole mouth and the person speaking. AT: "what I said" (See: Synecdoche)
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covenant faithfulness
faithful
promise
covenant
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