Parallel Verses

New Heart English Bible

For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever,

New American Standard Bible

‘Indeed, I lift up My hand to heaven,
And say, as I live forever,

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

I raise My hand to heaven and declare:
As surely as I live forever,

International Standard Version

"I solemnly swear to heaven I say "As certainly as I'm alive and living forever,

A Conservative Version

For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, As I live forever,

American Standard Version

For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live for ever,

Amplified


‘Indeed, I lift up My hand to heaven,
And say (swear an oath), as I live forever,

Bible in Basic English

For lifting up my hand to heaven I say, By my unending life,

Darby Translation

For I lift up my hand to the heavens, and say, I live for ever!

Julia Smith Translation

For I will lift up my hand to the heavens, And I said, I live forever.

King James 2000

For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, As I live forever.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For [indeed] I lift up my hand to heaven, And I promise {as I live forever},

Modern King James verseion

For I lift up My hand to Heaven and say, I live forever!

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

For I raise up my hand to heaven, and say, 'As surely as I live forever,

The Emphasized Bible

For I lift up unto the heavens my hand, - And say, Living am, I, unto times age-abiding:

Webster

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

World English Bible

For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever,

Youngs Literal Translation

For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live -- to the age!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For I lift up
נסה נשׂא 
Nasa' 
Usage: 653

my hand
יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

to heaven
שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

and say

Usage: 0

I live
חי 
Chay 
Usage: 502

References

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Context Readings

Moses' Song

39 "See now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me. I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever, 41 if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.



Cross References

Genesis 14:22

Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to the LORD, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

Exodus 6:8

I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am the LORD.'"

Numbers 14:28-30

Tell them, 'As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:

Jeremiah 4:2

and you shall swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."

Hebrews 6:17-18

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

Revelation 10:5-6

The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky,

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