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Literal Standard Version

Amos 8:7

YHWH has sworn by the excellence of Jacob: "I do not forget any of their works forever.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God Continued...;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Work;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Pride;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amos;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Eternity;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord has sworn by the Pride of Jacob:
Hebrew Names Version
The LORD has sworn by the pride of Ya`akov, "Surely I will never forget any of their works.
King James Version (1611)
The Lord hath sworne by the excellencie of Iacob, Surely I will neuer forget any of their workes.
King James Version
The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
English Standard Version
The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: "Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
New American Standard Bible
The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Indeed, I will never forget any of their deeds.
New Century Version
The Lord has sworn by his name, the Pride of Jacob, "I will never forget everything that these people did.
Amplified Bible
The LORD has sworn [an oath] by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I shall never forget [nor leave unpunished] any of their [rebellious] acts.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lorde hath sworne by the excellencie of Iaakob, Surely I will neuer forget any of their workes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Indeed, I will never forget any of their deeds.
Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh has sworn by the lofty pride of Jacob,"Indeed, I will never forget any of their works.
Berean Standard Bible
The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: "I will never forget any of their deeds.
Contemporary English Version
I, the Lord , won't forget any of this, though you take great pride in your ancestor Jacob.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai swears by Ya‘akov's pride, "I will forget none of their deeds, ever.
Darby Translation
Jehovah hath sworn by the glory of Jacob, Certainly I will never forget any of their works.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord made a promise. He used his name, "Pride of Jacob," and made this promise: "I will never forget what those people did.
George Lamsa Translation
The LORD, the Mighty One of Jacob, has sworn, Surely, I will never forget any of their works.
Good News Translation
The Lord , the God of Israel, has sworn, "I will never forget their evil deeds.
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their deeds!
Literal Translation
Jehovah has sworn by the Pride of Jacob, Surely I will not ever forget all their works.
American Standard Version
Jehovah hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Bible in Basic English
The Lord has taken an oath by the pride of Jacob, Truly I will ever keep in mind all their works.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The LORD hath sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lorde hath sworne by the excellencie of Iacob, surely I will neuer forget any of their workes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, None of your works shall ever be forgotten.
English Revised Version
The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
World English Bible
Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord swoor ayens the pride of Jacob, Y schal not foryete til to the ende alle the werkis of hem.
Update Bible Version
Yahweh has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD hath sworn by the excellence of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
New English Translation
The Lord confirms this oath by the arrogance of Jacob: "I swear I will never forget all you have done!
New King James Version
The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: "Surely I will never forget any of their works.
New Living Translation
Now the Lord has sworn this oath by his own name, the Pride of Israel: "I will never forget the wicked things you have done!
New Life Bible
The Lord has promised by the pride of Jacob, "For sure I will never forget anything they have done.
New Revised Standard
The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Sworn hath Yahweh, by the Excellency of Jacob, - Surely I will never forget any of their doings!
Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord hath sworn against the pride of Jacob: surely I will never forget all their works.
Revised Standard Version
The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: "Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
Young's Literal Translation
Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: `I forget not for ever any of their works.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE hath sworne agaynst the pryde of Iacob: these workes of theirs will I neuer forget.
THE MESSAGE
God swears against the arrogance of Jacob: "I'm keeping track of their every last sin." God's oath will shake earth's foundations, dissolve the whole world into tears. God's oath will sweep in like a river that rises, flooding houses and lands, And then recedes, leaving behind a sea of mud.

Contextual Overview

4Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, || To cause the poor of the land to cease, 5Saying, "When does the new moon pass, || And we sell ground grain? And the Sabbath, and we open out pure grain? To make little the ephah, || And to make great the shekel, || And to use balances of deceit perversely. 6To purchase the poor with money, || And the needy for a pair of sandals, || Indeed, the refuse of the pure grain we sell." 7YHWH has sworn by the excellence of Jacob: "I do not forget any of their works forever.8Does the land not tremble for this, || And every dweller in it has mourned? And all of it has come up as a flood. And it has been cast out, and has sunk, || Like the flood of Egypt. 9And it has come to pass in that day," || A declaration of Lord YHWH, || "I have caused the sun to go in at noon, || And caused darkness on the land in a day of light, 10And have turned your festivals to mourning, || And all your songs to lamentation, || And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, || And on every head—baldness, || And made it as a mourning of an only one, || And its latter end as a day of bitterness.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sworn: Amos 6:8, Deuteronomy 33:26-29, Psalms 47:4, Psalms 68:34, Luke 2:32

I will: Exodus 17:16, 1 Samuel 15:2, 1 Samuel 15:3, Psalms 10:11, Isaiah 43:25, Jeremiah 17:1, Jeremiah 31:34, Hosea 7:2, Hosea 8:13, Hosea 9:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 8:1 - God remembered Job 24:23 - yet his eyes Job 34:25 - he knoweth Psalms 50:21 - set Psalms 89:35 - Once Psalms 109:15 - before Isaiah 14:24 - Lord Jeremiah 2:22 - yet thine iniquity Jeremiah 22:5 - I Jeremiah 44:21 - did Jeremiah 44:26 - I have sworn Ezekiel 5:11 - as I live Ezekiel 44:12 - therefore

Cross-References

Leviticus 11:15
every raven after its kind,
1 Kings 17:4
and it has been [that] you drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to sustain you there."
1 Kings 17:6
and the ravens are bringing bread and flesh to him in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drinks from the brook.
Job 38:41
Who prepares for a raven his provision, || When his young ones cry to God? They wander without food."
Psalms 147:9
Giving to the beast its food, || To the young of the ravens that call.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob,.... Not by the ark, as R. Japhet; nor by the temple, as Kimchi; but by himself; which sense Kimchi also mentions, and Aben Ezra; the God of Jacob and his glory, the most excellent of all Jacob's enjoyments, and of whom he had reason to boast and glory; see Amos 6:8;

surely I will never forget any of their works; their wicked works, especially those now mentioned; God forgets when he forgives them, or suffers them to go unpunished; but though he had done so long, he would do so no more; on which they might depend, since he had not only said it, but swore to it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By the excellency of Jacob - that is, by Himself who was its Glory, as Samuel calls Him “the Strength” 1 Samuel 15:29 or the Glory of Israel. Amos had before said, “God sware by His Holiness” and “by Himself” or “His soul.” Now, in like way, He pledges that Glory wherewith He was become the Glory of His people. He reminds them, who was the sole Source of their glory; not their calves, but Himself, their Creator; and that He would not forget their deeds. “I will not forget any,” literally, “all;” as David and Paul say, “all flesh,” all living men, “shall not be justified,” that is, none, no one, neither the whole nor any of its parts. Amos brings before the mind all their actions, and then says of all and each, the Lord will not forget them. God must cease to be God, if He did not do what He sware to do, punish the oppressors and defrauders of the poor.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 8:7. By the excellency of Jacob — By the state of eminence to which he had raised the descendants of Jacob; or, by the excellent ONE of Jacob, that is, HIMSELF. The meaning is: "As surely as I have raised you to such a state of eminence, so surely will I punish you in proportion to your advantages and your crimes."


 
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