16 and said, h“By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
23 lBy myself I have sworn;
mfrom my mouth has gone out in righteousness
a word that shall not return:
‘To me nevery knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear allegiance.’1
26 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the Lord, that my name shall no more be invoked by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, ‘As the Lord God lives.’
13 For I have sworn by myself, declares the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse, and all her cities shall be qperpetual wastes.”
14 The Lord of hosts has sworn by himself:
Surely I will fill you with men, ras many as locusts,
and they shall raise the shout of victory over you.
8 The Lord God yhas sworn by himself, declares the Lord, the God of hosts:
“I abhor the zpride of Jacob
and hate his strongholds,
and I will adeliver up the city and all that is in it.”
The Certainty of God’s Promise
13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, fhe swore by himself,
