Deuteronomy 32:40

For I will lift up my hand to heaven, 1 And swear by my right hand, 1 And I will say, I live forever. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

39Behold, behold that I am he, 1 And there is no god beside me: 1 I kill, and I will make to live: 1 I will smite, and I will heal; 1 And there is none who shall deliver out of my hands. 1

41For I will sharpen my sword like lightning, 1 And my hand shall take hold of judgment; 1 And I will render judgment to my enemies, 1 And will recompense them that hate me. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 6:8And I will bring you into the land concerning which I stretched out my hand to give it to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and I will give it you for an inheritance: I am the Lord.

Numbers 14:28Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord: surely as ye spoke into my ears, so will I do to you.

Jeremiah 4:2The Lord lives, with truth, in judgment and righteousness, then shall nations bless by him, and by him they shall praise God in Jerusalem.

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 →

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