53 Heb “break”; “make ineffectual.” Some prefer to emend אָפִיר (’afir; the Hiphil of פָּרַר, parar, “to break”) to אָסִיר (’asir; the Hiphil of סוּר, sur, “to turn aside”), a verb that appears in 2 Sam 7:15.
54 Heb “and I will not deal falsely with my faithfulness.”
55 Or “desecrate.”
56 Heb “and what proceeds out of my lips I will not alter.”
57 Or “lie to.”

In other versions

but I will not remove from him my steadfast love

or be false to my faithfulness.

I will not violate my covenant

or alter the word that went forth from my lips.

Once for all I have sworn by my holiness;

I will not lie to David.

but I will not take my love from him,

nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.

I will not violate my covenant

or alter what my lips have uttered.

Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness—

and I will not lie to David—

But I will not withdraw

my faithful love from him

or betray my faithfulness.

I will not violate my covenant

or change what my lips have said.

Once and for all

I have sworn an oath by my holiness;

I will not lie to David.

But I will never stop loving him

nor fail to keep my promise to him.

No, I will not break my covenant;

I will not take back a single word I said.

I have sworn an oath to David,

and in my holiness I cannot lie:

But I will not break off my loyal love from him,

and I will not be false against my faithfulness.

I will not defile my covenant,

or alter what proceeded from my lips.

Once I have sworn by my holiness,

‘I will surely not lie to David,

Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him,

Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

My covenant will I not break,

Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

Once have I sworn by my holiness

That I will not lie unto David.

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