'Declares' in the Bible

“Then I raised up some of your sons to be prophetsAnd some of your young men to be Nazirites.Is this not so, O sons of Israel?” declares the Lord.

“Even the bravest among the warriors will flee naked in that day,” declares the Lord.

But they do not know how to do what is right,” declares the Lord, “these who hoard up violence and devastation in their citadels.”

“Hear and testify against the house of Jacob,”Declares the Lord God, the God of hosts.

“I will also smite the winter house together with the summer house;The houses of ivory will also perishAnd the great houses will come to an end,”Declares the Lord.

“You will go out through breaches in the walls,Each one straight before her,And you will be cast to Harmon,” declares the Lord.

“Offer a thank offering also from that which is leavened,And proclaim freewill offerings, make them known.For so you love to do, you sons of Israel,”Declares the Lord God.

“But I gave you also cleanness of teeth in all your citiesAnd lack of bread in all your places,Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

“So two or three cities would stagger to another city to drink water,But would not be satisfied;Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

“I smote you with scorching wind and mildew;And the caterpillar was devouringYour many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees;Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

“I sent a plague among you after the manner of Egypt;I slew your young men by the sword along with your captured horses,And I made the stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils;Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

“I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,And you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze;Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the windAnd declares to man what are His thoughts,He who makes dawn into darknessAnd treads on the high places of the earth,The Lord God of hosts is His name.

“For behold, I am going to raise up a nation against you,O house of Israel,” declares the Lord God of hosts,“And they will afflict you from the entrance of HamathTo the brook of the Arabah.”

The songs of the palace will turn to wailing in that day,” declares the Lord God. “Many will be the corpses; in every place they will cast them forth in silence.”

“It will come about in that day,” declares the Lord God,“That I will make the sun go down at noonAnd make the earth dark in broad daylight.

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord God,“When I will send a famine on the land,Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water,But rather for hearing the words of the Lord.

“Are you not as the sons of Ethiopia to Me,O sons of Israel?” declares the Lord.“Have I not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt,And the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?

“Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,And I will destroy it from the face of the earth;Nevertheless, I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob,”Declares the Lord.

That they may possess the remnant of EdomAnd all the nations who are called by My name,”Declares the Lord who does this.

“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord,“When the plowman will overtake the reaperAnd the treader of grapes him who sows seed;When the mountains will drip sweet wineAnd all the hills will be dissolved.