Deuteronomy 32:40
For I lift up My hand to the heavens, || And have said, I live for all time!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 6:8and I have brought you to the land which I have lifted up My hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and have given it to you—a possession; I [am] YHWH.”
Numbers 14:28say to them: As I live—a declaration of YHWH—if, as you have spoken in My ears, do I not do so to you?
Jeremiah 4:2And you have sworn—YHWH lives, || In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness, || And nations have blessed themselves in Him, || And they boast themselves in Him.”
Hebrews 6:17in which God, more abundantly willing to show to the heirs of the promise the immutability of His counsel, interposed by an oath,
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:40-44
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. 41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. 42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the… Read the whole commentary →