Psalm 89:34 {88:35}
Good News Translation
I will not break my covenant with him or take back even one promise I made him.

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Leviticus 26:44 And 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.

Jeremiah 14:21 Give us not to be a reproach, for thy name's sake, and do not disgrace in us the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

Jeremiah 33:20 Thus 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:

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Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

Malachi 3:6 For I am the Lord, and I change not: and you the sons of Jacob are not consumed.

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

Romans 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.

James 1:17 Every 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.

Context
I Will Sing of His Love Forever
33But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my truth to fail. 34Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed from my mouth I will not make void.35Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David:…
Cross References
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

Deuteronomy 7:9
And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a strong and faithful God, keeping his covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments, unto a thousand generations:

Psalm 55:20
He hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his covenant,

Psalm 89:28
I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful to him.

Isaiah 54:10
For the mountains shall be moved, and the hills shall tremble; but my mercy shall not depart from thee, and the covenant of my peace shall not be moved: said the Lord that hath mercy on thee.

Jeremiah 33:20
Thus 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:

Jeremiah 33:21
Also my covenant with David my servant may be made void, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne, and with the Levites and priests my ministers.

Psalm 89:33
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