Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Parallel translations
- KJV The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
- BSB The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
- NKJV The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: “Surely I will never forget any of their works.
- NASB ¶The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Indeed, I will never forget any of their deeds.
- NLT Now the Lord has sworn this oath by his own name, the Pride of Israel: “I will never forget the wicked things you have done!
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- Amos 6:8“The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
- Hos 9:9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
- Hos 8:13As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it; But Yahweh doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
- Hos 7:2They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
- Ps 10:11He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
- Isa 43:25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
- Jer 31:34and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.”
- Jer 17:1“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.
- Ps 47:4He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
- Deut 33:26–29“There is no one like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, in his excellency on the skies.
- Ps 68:34Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies.
- Luke 2:32a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”
- 1 Sam 15:2–3Yahweh of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way, when he came up out of Egypt.
- Exod 17:16He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”
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