Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

LORD has sworn, and will not repent. Thou are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

New American Standard Bible

The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind,
“You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek.”

King James Version

The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

Holman Bible

The Lord has sworn an oath and will not take it back:
“Forever, You are a priest
like Melchizedek.”

International Standard Version

The LORD took an oath and will never recant: "You are a priest forever, after the manner of Melchizedek."

American Standard Version

Jehovah hath sworn, and will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek.

Amplified


The Lord has sworn [an oath] and will not change His mind:
You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek.”

Darby Translation

Jehovah hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek.

Julia Smith Translation

Jehovah sware and he will not lament, Thou a priest forever according to the manner of Melchizedeck.

King James 2000

The LORD has sworn, and will not relent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Yahweh has sworn and he will not change [his mind], "You [are] a priest forever according to the manner of Melchizedek."

Modern King James verseion

Jehovah has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The LORD sware, and will not repent, "Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."

NET Bible

The Lord makes this promise on oath and will not revoke it: "You are an eternal priest after the pattern of Melchizedek."

New Heart English Bible

The LORD has sworn, and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."

The Emphasized Bible

Yahweh, hath sworn - and will not repent, Thou, shalt be a priest unto times age-abiding, after the manner of Melchizedek.

Webster

The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek.

World English Bible

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."

Youngs Literal Translation

Jehovah hath sworn, and doth not repent, 'Thou art a priest to the age, According to the order of Melchizedek.'

Context Readings

The Priestly King

3 Thy people offer themselves willingly in the day of thy power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning thou have the dew of thy youth. 4 LORD has sworn, and will not repent. Thou are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. 5 LORD at thy right hand will strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

Cross References

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

Hebrews 5:6

(And just as he says in another, Thou are a priest into the age according to the order of Melchizedek.)

Hebrews 7:17

For he testifies, Thou are a priest into the age according to the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 7:21

but he with an oath, because of him who says to him, The Lord swore and will not change his mind, Thou are a priest into the age according to the order of Melchizedek.

Genesis 14:18

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine. And he was priest of God Most High.

Zechariah 6:13

even he shall build the temple of LORD. And he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne. And he shall be a priest upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

Hebrews 7:28

For the law appoints men high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath after the law, a Son who has been fully perfected into the age.

Psalm 89:34-36

I will not break my covenant, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

Psalm 132:11

LORD has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: From the fruit of thy body I will set upon thy throne.

Hebrews 6:13-18

For God who promised to Abraham, since he had none greater to swear by, swore by himself,

Hebrews 6:20-3

where the forerunner, Jesus, entered for us, having become a high priest into the age according to the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 7:11

If indeed therefore perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people had received the law), what further need is there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated

Revelation 1:6

and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him is the glory and the dominion into the ages of the ages. Truly.

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