13 “For by my own self I have sworn,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah, “that nothing but an object of astonishment,+ a reproach, a devastation and a malediction will Bozʹrah+ become; and all her own cities will become devastated places to time indefinite.”+

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,