Psalms 89:30

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

If his children forsake my law, And walk not in mine ordinances;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְשַׂמְתִּי לָעַד זַרְעוֹ וְכִסְאוֹ כִּימֵי שָׁמָיִם

Transliteration

And-I-will-śamtî to-lāʿad zarʿô and-kisʾô like-yᵉmê šāmāyim

Grammar Details

*wᵉ-śamtî*: conjunction + verb, qal perfect 1st person singular - and I will set
*lā-ʿad*: preposition + noun - to perpetuity
*zarʿô*: noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his seed
*wᵉ-kisʾô*: conjunction + noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - and his throne
*ki-ymê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - like days of
*šāmāyim*: noun, masculine dual/plural - heavens

Word Meanings

*śamtî*: I will set/establish/appoint
*lā-ʿad*: forever/perpetually
*zarʿô*: his seed/offspring/descendants
*kisʾô*: his throne/royal authority
*yᵉmê šāmāyim*: days of heaven/eternal days

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 7:14 : 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;
1 Chr 28:9 : 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 Jehovah searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Ps 119:53 : 53 Hot indignation hath taken hold upon me, Because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
Ps 132:12 : 12 If thy children will keep my covenant And my testimony that I shall teach them, Their children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore.
Prov 4:2 : 2 For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law.
Prov 28:4 : 4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked; But such as keep the law contend with them.
Jer 9:13-16 : 13 And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein, 14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them; 15 therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. 16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.
Ezek 18:9 : 9 hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept mine ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Ezek 18:17 : 17 that hath withdrawn his hand from the poor, that hath not received interest nor increase, hath executed mine ordinances, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
Ezek 20:19 : 19 I am Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;
Luke 1:6 : 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
2 Chr 7:17-22 : 17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances; 18 then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel. 19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; 20 then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 21 And this house, which is so high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why hath Jehovah done thus unto this land, and to this house? 22 And they shall answer, Because they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 89:31-37
7 verses
88%
31If they break my statutes, And keep not my commandments;
32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes.
33But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
34My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David:
36His seed shall endure for ever, And his throne as the sun before me.
37It shall be established for ever as the moon, And [as] the faithful witness in the sky. {H5542}
Ps 89:27-29
3 verses
80%
27I also will make him [my] first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth.
28My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
29His seed also will I make to endure for ever, And his throne as the days of heaven.
Ps 132:11-12
2 verses
79%
11Jehovah hath sworn unto David in truth; He will not turn from it: Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
12If thy children will keep my covenant And my testimony that I shall teach them, Their children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore.
2 Sam 7:14
76%
14I 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;
1 Kgs 9:6
76%
6But if ye shall turn away from following me, ye or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
1 Chr 28:7
76%
7And I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and mine ordinances, as at this day.
Job 8:4
75%
4If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;
2 Chr 7:17-19
3 verses
75%
17And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances;
18then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.
19But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
Jer 31:36
74%
36If these ordinances depart from before me, saith Jehovah, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
Ps 73:15
74%
15If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.
2 Chr 6:16
74%
16Now therefore, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only thy children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as thou hast walked before me.
Ezek 18:14
73%
14Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins, which he hath done, and feareth, and doeth not such like;
Lev 26:15
73%
15and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;
Jer 9:13
73%
13And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,
Ps 37:28
73%
28For Jehovah loveth justice, And forsaketh not his saints; They are preserved for ever: But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
1 Kgs 2:4
72%
4That Jehovah may establish his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.
Ps 78:5-6
2 verses
72%
5For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;
6That the generation to come might know [them], even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell [them] to their children,
Ezek 20:21
72%
21But the children rebelled against me; they walked not in my statutes, neither kept mine ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
1 Chr 17:13
72%
13I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my lovingkindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee;
Isa 30:9
72%
9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;
Lev 26:3
72%
3If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
Ezek 18:10
72%
10If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth any one of these things,
Ps 78:10
72%
10They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;
1 Kgs 9:4
71%
4And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances;
Jer 30:20
71%
20Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I will punish all that oppress them.
Prov 22:6
71%
6Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Prov 1:8
71%
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
1 Kgs 8:25
71%
25Now therefore, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
Prov 4:2
71%
2For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law.
Prov 3:1
71%
1My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments:
Deut 17:20
71%
20that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Deut 5:29
71%
29Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
Jer 22:30
71%
30Thus saith Jehovah, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling in Judah.
Ps 89:4
71%
4Thy seed will I establish for ever, And build up thy throne to all generations. Selah
Jer 33:21
71%
21then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
Prov 17:6
71%
6Children's children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their fathers.
Job 27:14
71%
14If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Jer 33:25
71%
25Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night [stand] not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;