⁵ Say to them, “This is what the Lord God says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath^[a](A) to the descendants of Jacob’s house and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore to them, saying, ‘I am the Lord your God.’^(B)

⁵ Then the angel that I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven. ⁶ He swore by the one who lives for ever and ever,^(A) who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, ‘There will no longer be a delay,