Deuteronomy 32:40

New English Translation

For I raise up my hand to heaven, and say, ‘As surely as I live forever,

Cross References

Genesis 14:22

But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I raise my hand to the Lord, the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth, and vow

Genesis 21:33

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord, the eternal God.

2 Samuel 22:47

The Lord is alive! My protector is praiseworthy! The God who delivers me is exalted as king!

Psalm 144:11

Grab me and rescue me from the power of foreigners, who speak lies, and make false promises.

Psalm 144:8

who speak lies, and make false promises.

Exodus 6:8

I will bring you to the land I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob – and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord!’”

Jeremiah 4:2

You must be truthful, honest and upright when you take an oath saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives!’ If you do, the nations will pray to be as blessed by him as you are and will make him the object of their boasting.”

Jeremiah 44:26

But listen to what the Lord has to say, all you people of Judah who are living in the land of Egypt. The Lord says, ‘I hereby swear by my own great name that none of the people of Judah who are living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name in their oaths! Never again will any of them use it in an oath saying, “As surely as the Lord God lives….”

Ezekiel 20:5

and say to them: “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose Israel I swore to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore to them, “I am the Lord your God.”

Ezekiel 20:6

On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

Ezekiel 21:4

Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone from the south to the north.

Ezekiel 21:5

Then everyone will know that I am the Lord, who drew my sword from its sheath – it will not be sheathed again!’

Daniel 12:7

Then I heard the man clothed in linen who was over the waters of the river as he raised both his right and left hands to the sky and made an oath by the one who lives forever: “It is for a time, times, and half a time. Then, when the power of the one who shatters the holy people has been exhausted, all these things will be finished.”

Numbers 14:21

But truly, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord.

Revelation 4:10

the twenty-four elders throw themselves to the ground before the one who sits on the throne and worship the one who lives forever and ever, and they offer their crowns before his throne, saying:

Revelation 4:9

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