Isaiah 14:24 Cross References

Isaiah 14:24

24: The LORD Almighty has sworn this oath: "It will all happen as I have planned. It will come about according to my purposes.

Only I can tell you what is going to happen even before it happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish.
I will call a swift bird of prey from the east--a leader from a distant land who will come and do my bidding. I have said I would do it, and I will.

Nevertheless, his mind concerning me remains unchanged, and who can turn him from his purposes? Whatever he wants to do, he does.

For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

The LORD has taken an oath and will not break his vow: "You are a priest forever in the line of Melchizedek."

The anger of the LORD will not diminish until it has finished all his plans. In the days to come, you will understand all this very clearly.

God's secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to his good pleasure.

For only we who believe can enter his place of rest. As for those who didn't believe, God said, "In my anger I made a vow: 'They will never enter my place of rest,'" even though his place of rest has been ready since he made the world.

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!

When people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question that oath is binding.
God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind.
So God has given us both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can take new courage, for we can hold on to his promise with confidence.

Then Jesus prayed this prayer: "O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding the truth from those who think themselves so wise and clever, and for revealing it to the childlike.

"But listen to this message from the LORD, all you Judeans now living in Egypt: I have sworn by my great name, says the LORD, that my name will no longer be spoken by any of the Judeans in the land of Egypt. None of you may invoke my name or use this oath: `As surely as the Sovereign LORD lives!'

He said, "They have dared to raise their fist against the LORD's throne, so now the LORD will be at war with Amalek generation after generation."

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