Deuteronomy 32:40 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁰ For I lift up my hand to heaven and swear, As I live forever,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, I live for ever.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ For I lift up My hand to heaven and swear, As I live forever,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live for ever,

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ But now I’m lifting my hand to heaven— I swear by my own eternity:

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live in eternity.

Deuteronomy 32:40 Cross References

Genesis 14:22

But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have sworn to God Most High, maker of heaven and earth,

Jeremiah 4:2

and if you swear, “As the Lord lives!” in truth, in justice, and in uprightness, then nations shall be blessed by you, and by you they shall boast.

Exodus 6:8

I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; I will give it to you for a possession. I am the Lord.”

Revelation 4:9

And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to the one who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

Revelation 4:10

the twenty-four elders fall before the one who is seated on the throne and worship the one who lives forever and ever; they cast their crowns before the throne, singing,

Genesis 21:33

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba and there called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.

Numbers 14:21

nevertheless, as I live and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord,

Psalm 144:8

whose mouths speak lies and whose right hands are false.

Psalm 144:11

Rescue me from the cruel sword, and deliver me from the hand of aliens, whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hands are false.

Jeremiah 44:26

Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all you Judeans who live in the land of Egypt: I swear by my great name, says the Lord, that my name shall no longer be pronounced on the lips of any of the people of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, ‘As the Lord God lives.’

Ezekiel 20:5

and say to them: Thus says the Lord God: On the day when I chose Israel, I swore 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.”

Ezekiel 20:6

On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands.

Ezekiel 21:4

Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword shall go out of its sheath against all flesh from south to north,

Ezekiel 21:5

and all flesh shall know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath; it shall not be sheathed again.

2 Samuel 22:47

The Lord lives! Blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,

Daniel 12:7

The man clothed in linen, who was upstream, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven. And I heard him swear by the one who lives forever that it would be for a time, two 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 accomplished.