Deuteronomy 32:39
Good News Translation
"'I, and I alone, am God; no other god is real. I kill and I give life, I wound and I heal, and no one can oppose what I do.

New Revised Standard Version
See now that I, even I, am he; there is no god besides me. I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and no one can deliver from my hand.

Contemporary English Version
Don't you understand? I am the only God; there are no others. I am the one who takes life and gives it again. I punished you with suffering. But now I will heal you, and nothing can stop me!

New American Bible
See now that I, I alone, am he, and there is no god besides me. It is I who bring both death and life, I who inflict wounds and heal them, and from my hand no one can deliver.

Douay-Rheims Bible
See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

I, even I

Psalm 102:27 But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.

Isaiah 41:4 Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, I am the first and the last.

Isaiah 45:5,18,22 I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God besides me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me: . . .

Isaiah 46:4 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.

Isaiah 48:12 Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I am the first, and I am the last.

Hebrews 1:12 And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shalt be changed. But thou art the selfsame: and thy years shall not fail.

Revelation 1:11 Saying: What thou seest, write in a book and send to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

Revelation 2:8 And to the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things saith the First and the Last, who was dead and is alive:

no god

Deuteronomy 4:35 That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him.

Isaiah 45:5,18,22 I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God besides me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me: . . .

I kill

1 Samuel 2:6 The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again.

2 Kings 5:7 And when the king of Israel had read the letter, he rent his garments, and said: Am I God, to be able to kill and give life, that this man hath sent to me to heal a man of his leprosy? mark, and see how he seeketh occasions against me.

Job 5:18 For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.

Psalm 68:20 Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.

Isaiah 43:13 And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none that can deliver out of my hind: I will work, and who shall turn it away?

Hosea 6:1 In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord.

John 8:24 Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins. For if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.

Revelation 1:17,18 And when I had seen him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying: Fear not. I am the First and the Last, . . .

neither

Job 10:7 And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand?

Psalm 50:22 Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.

Isaiah 43:13 And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none that can deliver out of my hind: I will work, and who shall turn it away?

Micah 5:8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples, as a dew from the Lord, and as drops upon the grass, which waiteth not for man, nor tarrieth for the children of men.

Context
The Song of Moses
38Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress. 39See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.40I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.…
Cross References
Exodus 4:7
And he said: Put back thy hand into thy bosom. He put it back, and brought it out again, and it was like the other flesh.

Exodus 15:26
Saying: If thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do what is right before him, and obey his commandments, and keep all his precepts, none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon thee: for I am the Lord thy healer.

Deuteronomy 4:35
That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him.

Deuteronomy 32:12
The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.

1 Samuel 2:6
The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again.

Job 5:18
For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.

Psalm 18:31
For who is God but the Lord? or who is God but our God?

Psalm 50:22
Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.

Psalm 51:8
To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.

Psalm 68:20
Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.

Psalm 86:10
For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone.

Isaiah 19:22
And the Lord shall strike Egypt with a scourge, and shall heal it, and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall be pacified towards them, and heal them.

Isaiah 30:26
And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days: in the day when the Lord shall bind up the wound of his people, and shall heal the stroke of their wound.

Isaiah 41:4
Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, I am the first and the last.

Isaiah 43:10
You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know, and believe me, and understand that I myself am. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there shall be none.

Isaiah 45:5
I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God besides me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me:

Ezekiel 37:3
And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou think these bones shall live and I answered: O Lord God, thou knowest.

Ezekiel 37:12
Therefore prophesy, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will open your graves, and will bring you out of your sepulchres, O my people: and will bring you into the land of Israel.

Hosea 6:1
In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 32:38
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