For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever,
Parallel translations
- KJV For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
- BSB For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,
- NKJV For I raise My hand to heaven, And say, “As I live forever,
- NASB ‘Indeed, I raise My hand to heaven, And say, as I live forever,
- NLT Now I raise my hand to heaven and declare, “As surely as I live,
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- Jer 4:2and you shall swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.”
- Heb 6:17–18In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
- Gen 14:22Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
- Rev 10:5–6The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky,
- Num 14:28–30Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you.
- Exod 6:8I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.’”
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