21 and there I will send a lad, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows.’ If I expressly say to the lad, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; get them and come’—then, (A)as the Lord lives, there is safety for you and no harm.

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14 Those who (A)swear by (B)the [a]sin of Samaria,
Who say,
‘As your god lives, O Dan!’
And, ‘As the way of (C)Beersheba lives!’
They shall fall and never rise again.”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:14 Or Ashima, a Syrian goddess

16 And it shall be, if they will learn carefully the ways of My people, (A)to swear by My name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they shall be (B)established in the midst of My people.

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(A)Though they say, ‘As (B)the Lord lives,’
Surely they (C)swear falsely.”

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(A)And you shall swear, ‘The Lord lives,’
(B)In truth, in [a]judgment, and in righteousness;
(C)The nations shall bless themselves in Him,
And in Him they shall (D)glory.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 4:2 justice

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