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34My covenant will I not break{H8762)}, nor alter{H8762)} the thing that is gone out of my lips.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-37)The covenant God made with David and his seed was mentioned before ( Ps. 89:3 , 4 ); but in these verses it is enlarged upon, and pleaded with God, for favour to the royal family, now almost sunk and ruined; yet certainly it looks at Christ, and has its accomplishment in him much more than in David; nay, some passages here are scarcely applicable at all to David, but must be understood of Christ o…
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