Whereas he has profaned the oath so as to break the covenant, when behold, I engage his hand, and he has done all these things to him, he shall not escape.

Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: [As] I live, surely My oath which he has profaned, and My covenant which he has transgressed, I will even recompense it upon his head.

Thus says the Lord: I will even do to you as you have done, as you have dealt shamefully in these things to transgress My covenant.

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord your God will not acquit him that takes His name in vain.

Any man that shall vow a vow to the Lord, or swear an oath, or bind himself with an obligation upon his soul, he shall not break his word; all that shall come out of his mouth he shall do.

This we will do: take them alive, and we will preserve them: so there shall not be wrath against us by reason of the oath which we swore to them.

So King David called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites are not the children of Israel, but [are] of the remnant of the Amorite, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; but Saul sought to smite them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah).

In his sight an evil worker is set at nought, but he honors them that fear the Lord. He swears to his neighbor, and disappoints [him] not.

And if you will not send them forth, behold, I afflict all your borders with frogs.

And what should a king do for us, speaking false professions [as his] words? He will make a covenant: judgment shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field.

And he said to me, This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole earth; for every thief shall be punished with death on this side, and every false swearer shall be punished on that side.

And I will bring it forth, says the Lord Almighty, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by My name, and it shall rest in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, and the timber of it, and the stones of it.

And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by My name, and against them that keep back the hireling's wages, and them that oppress the widow, and afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord Almighty.

without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful;

for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is opposed to sound doctrine,

unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, not loving what is good,

And behold, it thrives; shall it prosper? Shall it not wither as soon as the east wind touches it? It shall be withered together with the growth of its shoots.

And I will spread out My net upon him, and he shall be caught in My snare, and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; but he shall not see it, though he shall die there.

and Zedekiah shall by no means be delivered out of the hand of the Chaldeans, for he shall certainly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak to his mouth, and his eyes shall look upon his eyes;

and Zedekiah shall go into Babylon, and dwell there?

And you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall certainly be taken, and shall be given into his hands; and your eyes shall see his eyes, and you shall enter into Babylon.

You shall die in peace; and as they wept for your fathers that reigned before you, so shall they weep for you, [saying], Alas, lord! And they shall lament for you down to the grave; for I have spoken the word, says the Lord.

[This translation omits this verse.]

And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters. And the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon, and put him into the grinding-house, until the day when he died.