Psalms 89:30
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
KJV
If his children forsake my law, And walk not in mine ordinances;
ASV
וְ/שַׂמְתִּ֣י לָ/עַ֣ד זַרְע֑/וֹ וְ֝/כִסְא֗/וֹ כִּ/ימֵ֥י שָׁמָֽיִם
Hebrew
If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;
YLT
If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
WEB
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
וֹ
v
noun · 226×
וֹ
v
noun · 134×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
יָּ֥שֶׂם
yshm
verb · 581×
עֶֽד
'd
noun · 47×
שָּׁמַ֔יִם
shmym
noun · 419×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 9.—How Like the Prophecy About Christ in the 89th Psalm is to the Things Promised in Nathan’s Prophecy in the Books of Samuel. Wherefore also in the 89th Psalm, of which the title is, “An instruction for himself by Ethan the Israelite,” mention is made of the promises God made to king David, and some things are there added similar to those found in the Book of Samuel, s…
Neither does the renewed confidence of perseverance produce immorality or lack of concern for godliness in those who have been restored after a fall, but it produces a much greater concern to observe carefully the ways of the Lord which God prepared in advance. They observe these ways in order that by walking in them they may maintain the assurance of their perseverance, lest, …
Cross-references
- 1Chr 28:9 — And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the
- 2Sam 7:14 — I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
- Ezek 20:37 — And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
- Heb 12:6 — For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
- Prov 4:2 — For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
- Prov 28:4 — They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
- Ps 119:53 — Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
- Ps 119:75 — I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
- Ps 132:12 — If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.
- Ps 132:12 — If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.
- Ruth 1:5 — And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.