Isaiah 45:23

By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

22Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

24Surely they will say of Me, ‘In the LORD alone are righteousness and strength.’” All who rage against Him will come to Him and be put to shame.

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Cross References

Genesis 22:16saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,

Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

2 Chronicles 15:14They took an oath to the LORD with a loud voice, with shouting, trumpets, and rams’ horns.

Psalms 63:11But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut.

Psalms 132:2how he swore an oath to the LORD, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

Isaiah 21:17The remaining archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 45:21-25

The Folly of Idolatry; Salvation in Christ. ( b. c. 708.) 20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save. 21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the Lord ? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. 22 Look unto… Read the whole commentary →

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