33:10 The Lord frustrates 1 the decisions of the nations;
he nullifies the plans 2 of the peoples.
89:33 But I will not remove 3 my loyal love from him,
nor be unfaithful to my promise. 4
1 tn Heb “breaks” or “destroys.” The Hebrew perfect verbal forms here and in the next line generalize about the
2 tn Heb “thoughts.”
3 tn 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.
4 tn Heb “and I will not deal falsely with my faithfulness.”