# Psalms 89.34

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**Book:** [Psalms](/codex/psalms/) · NASB95

## Immediate context (±2 verses)

**ASV** ([ASV](/codex/asv/))
> 32. Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes. 33. But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
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> **34. My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.**
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> 35. Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: 36. His seed shall endure for ever, And his throne as the sun before me. (Psalms 89:32-36, ASV)

**WEB** ([WEB](/codex/web/))
> 32. then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 33. But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
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> **34. I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.**
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> 35. Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David. 36. His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me. (Psalms 89:32-36, WEB)

**KJV** ([KJV](/codex/kjv/))
> 32. Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 33. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. <sup>will: Heb. I will not make void from him</sup> <sup>to fall: Heb. to lie</sup>
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> **34. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.**
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> 35. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. <sup>that: Heb. if I lie</sup> 36. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. (Psalms 89:32-36, KJV)

**YLT** ([YLT](/codex/ylt/))
> 32. I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity, 33. And My kindness I break not from him, Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness.
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> **34. I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.**
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> 35. Once I have sworn by My holiness, I lie not to David, 36. His seed is to the age, And his throne [is] as the sun before Me, (Psalms 89:32-36, YLT)

## Setting

- **Speaker:** _TBD_
- **Audience:** _TBD_
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## Theological reading

_Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added._

## Key words

_Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word._

- None of the words in this verse has its own lexicon entry yet.


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## Quoted in

**Arguments and defeaters:**

- [God Breaks His Own Rules Objection Defeater](/codex/god-breaks-his-own-rules-objection-defeater/)

**Concepts:**

- [Biblical Prophecy](/codex/biblical-prophecy/), via [Psalms 89](/codex/psalms-89/)

**Lexicon:**

- [H2617 - hesed](/codex/h2617-hesed/), via [Psalms 89.24-49](/codex/psalms-89-24-49/)

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## Notes

_Your annotations._

## Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the **most literal English translations available** (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the **public domain in the United States**, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

- **[ASV](/codex/asv/)** (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
- **[WEB](/codex/web/)** (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
- **[KJV](/codex/kjv/)** (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
- **[YLT](/codex/ylt/)** (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

See [Bibles](/codex/bibles/) for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.