Isaiah 45:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

Isaiah 55:11

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

Isaiah 65:16

So that he who blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth, and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten and are hid from my eyes.

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

You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve him, and swear by his name.

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 glory; for the mouths of liars will be stopped.

Romans 11:4

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

Nehemiah 10:29

join with their brethren, 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 man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfil it?

Genesis 31:53

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

Jeremiah 49:13

For I have sworn by myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse; and all her cities 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 confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right.

Isaiah 49:18

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

Isaiah 60:14

The sons 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 forth 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 your 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 bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.”

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 remainder of the archers of the mighty men of the sons of Kedar will be few; for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.”