¹³ For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,

⁷³ An oath that He sware to Abraham our father,

¹⁵ And the messenger of Jehovah calleth unto Abraham a second time from the heavens,

¹⁶ and saith, `By Myself I have sworn -- the affirmation of Jehovah -- that because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one --

¹⁷ that blessing I bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thy seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which `is' on the sea-shore; and thy seed doth possess the gate of his enemies;

¹⁸ and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth, because that thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

⁹ That He hath made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac,

¹⁰ And doth establish it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel -- a covenant age-during,

²³ By Myself I have sworn, Gone out from my mouth in righteousness hath a word, And it turneth not back, That to Me, bow doth every knee, every tongue swear.

⁵ And if ye do not hear these words, By myself I have sworn -- an affirmation of Jehovah, That this house is for a desolation.

¹³ For, by Myself, I have sworn, An affirmation of Jehovah, That for a desolation, for a reproach, For a waste, and for a reviling -- is Bozrah, And all her cities are for wastes age-during.

¹³ And I have destroyed all her beasts, From beside many waters, And trouble them not doth a foot of man any more, Yea, the hoofs of beasts trouble them not.

²⁰ Thou givest truth to Jacob, kindness to Abraham, That thou hast sworn to our fathers, from the days of antiquity!

¹⁶ for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation `is' the oath,

¹⁷ in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,

¹⁸ that through two immutable things, in which `it is' impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before `us',