Psalms 89:31
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
KJV
If they break my statutes, And keep not my commandments;
ASV
אִם יַֽעַזְב֣וּ בָ֭נָי/ו תּוֹרָתִ֑/י וּ֝/בְ/מִשְׁפָּטַ֗/י לֹ֣א יֵלֵכֽוּ/ן
Hebrew
If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep,
YLT
if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;
WEB
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
י
y
noun · 422×
י
y
noun · 221×
יֵּ֥לֶךְ
ylk
verb · 1038×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
נִי
ny
verb · 212×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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
- 1Cor 11:30 — For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
- 2Sam 12:14 — Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
- Ps 55:20 — He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
- Rom 11:1 — I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.