40 For I lift up my hand to heaven
and swear, As I live forever,
26 Therefore he raised his hand and lswore to them
mthat he would make them fall in the wilderness,
5 and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: On the day when I cchose Israel, dI swore1 to the offspring of the house of Jacob, making myself known to them in the land of Egypt; I swore to them, saying, I am the Lord your God.
7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; mhe raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be nfor a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished.
5 And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land draised his right hand to heaven 6 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay,
