My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
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Gill's Exposition
Once have I sworn by my holiness,.... Swearing is ascribed to God after the manner of men, and is done in condescension to the weakness of his people, and to remove doubts and hesitations from them,…
Barnes' Notes
My covenant will I not break - literally, I will not pollute, defile, profane. See the notes at Psa 89:31, where the same word is used. God says that he will not do in regard to the covenant as they…
The covenant God made with David and his seed was mentioned before (Psa 89:3, Psa 89:4); but in these verses it is enlarged upon, and pleaded with God, for favour to the royal family, now almost sunk…
Cambridge Bible
break Lit. profane, as in Psa 89:89. God's covenant, like His laws, is a sacred thing. Men may violate His laws, but He will not violate His covenant.
the thing that is gone out of my lips The word…
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