The LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. Treasury of Scripture sworn. Amos 6:8 The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, said the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces... Deuteronomy 33:26-29 There is none like to the God of Jeshurun, who rides on the heaven in your help, and in his excellency on the sky... Psalm 47:4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. Psalm 68:34 Ascribe you strength to God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds. Luke 2:32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel. I will. Exodus 17:16 For he said, Because the LORD has sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. 1 Samuel 15:2,3 Thus said the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way... Psalm 10:11 He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it. Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember your sins. Jeremiah 17:1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven on the table of their heart... Jeremiah 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me... Hosea 7:2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about... Hosea 8:13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepts them not; now will he remember their iniquity... Hosea 9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
Context The Basket of Ripe Fruit
1Thus has the Lord GOD showed to me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. 2And he said, Amos, what see you? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD to me, The end is come on my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. 3And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, said the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence. 4Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7The LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. 8Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwells therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. 9And it shall come to pass in that day, said the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: 10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. 11Behold, the days come, said the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 12And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. 13In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. 14They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Your god, O Dan, lives; and, The manner of Beersheba lives; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Jehovah hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord hath sworn against the pride of Jacob: surely I will never forget all their works.
Darby Bible Translation
Jehovah hath sworn by the glory of Jacob, Certainly I will never forget any of their works.
King James Bible
The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Young's Literal Translation
Sworn hath Jehovah by the excellency of Jacob: 'I forget not for ever any of their works.
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