Isaiah 45:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone forth in righteousness a word that shall not return: “To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ I have sworn by Myself, the word is gone out of My mouth in righteousness and shall not return, that unto Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear [allegiance]. [Rom. 14:11; Phil. 2:10, 11; Heb. 6:13.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

Common English Bible

²³ I have sworn a solemn pledge; a word has left my mouth; it is reliable and won’t fail. Surely every knee will bow and every tongue will confess;

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ I have sworn by myself. The Word of justice will proceed from my mouth, and it will not turn back.

Isaiah 45:23 Cross References

Philippians 2:10

so that at the name given to Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

Isaiah 55:11

so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

Isaiah 65:16

Then whoever invokes a blessing in the land shall bless by the God of faithfulness, and whoever takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of faithfulness, because the former troubles are forgotten and are hidden from my sight.

Isaiah 45:19

I did not speak in secret in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, “Seek me in chaos.” I the Lord speak the truth; I declare what is right.

Deuteronomy 6:13

The Lord your God you shall fear, him you shall serve, and by his name alone you shall swear.

Psalm 132:2

how he swore to the Lord and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,

Psalm 63:11

But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall exult, for the mouths of liars will be stopped.

Romans 11:4

But what is the divine reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

Nehemiah 10:29

join with their kin, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord and his ordinances and his statutes.

Numbers 23:19

God is not a human being, that he should lie, or a mortal, that he should change his mind. Has he promised, and will he not do it? Has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Genesis 31:53

May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,

Jeremiah 49:13

For by myself I have sworn, says the Lord, that Bozrah shall become an object of horror and ridicule, a waste, and an object of cursing, and all her towns shall be perpetual wastes.

Jeremiah 22:5

But if you will not heed these words, I swear by myself, says the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.

Amos 6:8

The Lord God has sworn by himself (says the Lord, the God of hosts): I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his strongholds, and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.

Isaiah 48:1

Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and who came forth from the loins of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord and invoke the God of Israel but not in truth or right.

Isaiah 49:18

Lift up your eyes all around and see; they all gather; they come to you. As I live, says the Lord, you shall put all of them on like an ornament, and like a bride you shall bind them on.

Isaiah 60:14

The descendants of those who oppressed you shall come bending low to you, and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet; they shall call you the City of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 61:11

For as the earth brings forth its shoots and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink the wine for which you have labored,

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.

Zechariah 14:9

And the Lord will become king over all the earth; on that day the Lord will be one and his name one.

Psalm 98:2

The Lord has made known his victory; he has revealed his vindication in the sight of the nations.

Isaiah 21:17

and the remaining bows of Kedar’s warriors will be few, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.”