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15 but I will not withdraw my favor from him as I withdrew it from Saul who was before you.(A)

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15 But my love will never be taken away from him,(A) as I took it away from Saul,(B) whom I removed from before you.

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15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.

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34 But I will not take my mercy from him,
    nor will I betray my bond of faithfulness.(A)
35 I will not violate my covenant;
    the promise of my lips I will not alter.(B)
36 By my holiness I swore once for all:(C)
    I will never be false to David.
37 [a]His dynasty will continue forever,(D)
    his throne, like the sun before me.
38 Like the moon it will stand eternal,
    forever firm like the sky!”
Selah

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Footnotes

  1. 89:37–38 Like the sun before me…like the sky: as enduring as the heavenly lights, cf. Ps 89:2–5 and Ps 72:5, 17.

34 I will not violate my covenant
    or alter what my lips have uttered.(A)
35 Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness—
    and I will not lie to David—
36 that his line will continue forever
    and his throne endure before me like the sun;(B)
37 it will be established forever like the moon,
    the faithful witness in the sky.”(C)

38 But you have rejected,(D) you have spurned,
    you have been very angry with your anointed one.

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34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

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