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Psalms 89:39

Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

KJV

Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

ASV

וְ/אַתָּ֣ה זָ֭נַחְתָּ וַ/תִּמְאָ֑ס הִ֝תְעַבַּ֗רְתָּ עִם מְשִׁיחֶֽ/ךָ

Hebrew

Hast rejected the covenant of Thy servant, Thou hast polluted to the earth his crown,

YLT

You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַתָּ֣ה
'th
pronoun · 1088×
וֹ
v
noun · 38×
מָאָ֔סוּ
m'sv
verb · 76×
נוּ
nv
verb · 20×
עִם
'm
preposition · 1043×
עֹבֵ֣ר
'br
verb · 561×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Chapter 10.—How Different the Acts in the Kingdom of the Earthly Jerusalem are from Those Which God Had Promised, So that the Truth of the Promise Should Be Understood to Pertain to the Glory of the Other King and Kingdom. That it might not be supposed that a promise so strongly expressed and confirmed was fulfilled in Solomon, as if he hoped for, yet did not find it, he says, …

Cross-references

  • 2Chr 21:7 — Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.
  • 2Chr 23:11 — Then they brought out the king’s son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.
  • Jer 14:21 — Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
  • Job 19:9 — He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
  • Lam 2:2 — The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he ha
  • Lam 5:16 — The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
  • Lam 5:16 — The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
  • Ps 74:7 — They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
  • Ps 74:7 — They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
  • Ps 89:34 — My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
  • Zech 11:10 — And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.