Psalms 89:34
But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
In Context
33I will visit their iniquities with a rod: and their sins with stripes.
35Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:44And yet for all that when they were in the land of their enemies, I did not cast them off altogether, neither did I so despise them that they should be quite consumed, and I should make void my covenant with them. For I am the Lord their God.
2 Samuel 7:15But my mercy I will not take away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before my face.
1 Chronicles 17:13I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee.
Jeremiah 33:20Thus saith the Lord: If my covenant with the day can be made void, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season:
Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth shall pass, but my words shall not pass.
James 1:17Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 89:20-38
God's Covenant with David. 19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. 20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: 21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him. 22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. 23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. 24 But my faithfulness and my mercy… Read the whole commentary →