16 and to say: “‘By myself I do swear,’ is the utterance of Jehovah,+ ‘that by reason of the fact that you have done this thing and you have not withheld your son, your only one,+

8 “‘The Sovereign Lord Jehovah has sworn by his own soul,’+ is the utterance of Jehovah the God of armies, ‘“I am detesting the pride of Jacob,+ and his dwelling towers I have hated,+ and I will deliver up [the] city and what fills it.+

13 For when God made his promise to Abraham,+ since he could not swear by anyone greater, he swore+ by himself,