Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 89:31
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
31. If they break ] Lit. profane.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
If they break my statutes – Margin, profane. The Hebrew word means to pollute or defile; and the idea is, If they practically contemn them; if they regard them as things of nought, or treat them with disdain as a polluted or defiled thing. It is in this way that the mass of mankind do regard the commands of God. They treat them with no respect; they practically class them among objects that are polluted, and that are to be avoided as defiled and defiling.
And keep not my commandments – If they do not regulate their conduct by my laws.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
By this variety of expressions he implies that God will pardon not only their lesser, but even their greater sins.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
If they break my statutes,…. Fixed, settled, appointed ordinances; such as are baptism and the Lord’s supper, under the New Testament dispensation; which are the things that are unshaken, and will remain until the second coming of Christ: these are to be kept as they were first delivered; no change and alteration ought to be made in them; so to do is to break and violate them, or “profane” them, as the word i here used signifies; and which may be done by an unbecoming, irreverent, and indecent attendance on them; as was by some in the Corinthian church, of which the apostle complains, and who for it were taken notice of, and chastened by the Lord, 1Co 11:2, and keep not my commandments; which should be kept impartially, with great affection to them, from a principle of love to the Lord, with a view to his glory, and without trusting to and depending upon an obedience to them; for they are not grievous; and, besides, “in”, though not “for”, keeping them, there is great reward; and a contrary behaviour is displeasing to God: now this particular enumeration of offences, that may be committed by the children of God to Christ, show that all sorts of sins may be committed by them; sins of omission and commission; sins against the law, and against the Gospel; all but the unpardonable one; and that these, though they are observed in a way hereafter mentioned, yet are all forgiven.
i “prophanaverint”, V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Psa 89:31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
Ver. 31. If they break my statutes ] Heb. If they profane or make void; q. d. be their sins never so heinous, I will forgive them; though I take vengeance (temporal) of their inventions, Psa 99:8 .
And keep not my commandments
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
break = profane.
And keep not. Figure of speech Pleonasm (App-6), for emphasis.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
break: Heb. profane, Psa 55:20, *marg.
Reciprocal: 2Sa 12:14 – the child Rom 11:1 – Hath God 1Co 11:30 – many