⁵ and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose^(A) Israel, I swore with uplifted hand^(B) to the descendants of Jacob and revealed myself to them in Egypt. With uplifted hand I said to them, “I am the Lord your God.^(C)”

⁵ Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land^(A) raised his right hand to heaven.^{(B) 6} And he swore^(C) by him who lives for ever and ever,^(D) who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it,^(E) and said, “There will be no more delay!^(F)