The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.
- KJV The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
- 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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Quick answer
God swears that he will never forget any of their deeds. Their injustices are recorded and will surely be judged.
Overview
The oath, sworn by 'the pride of Jacob' (likely a title for God himself), guarantees that none of their sins will escape his memory or his justice. God's perfect knowledge means accountability is certain. This sober truth heightens the wonder of the gospel, where the sins God will not forget are nonetheless forgiven through the cross of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Amos 6:8The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”
- Hos 9:9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
- Hos 8:13Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
- Hos 7:2But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.
- Ps 10:11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
- Isa 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
- Jer 31:34No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
- Jer 17:1“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
- Ps 47:4He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah
- Deut 33:26–29“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
- Ps 68:34Ascribe the power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose strength is in the skies.
- Luke 2:32a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel.”
- 1 Sam 15:2–3This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they ambushed them on their way up from Egypt.
- Exod 17:16“Indeed,” he said, “a hand was lifted up toward the throne of the LORD. The LORD will war against Amalek from generation to generation.”
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Amid judgment on injustice, Amos promises the raising up of David's fallen tent — read by James in Acts 15 as the ingathering of the nations into the kingdom of the risen Christ.
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