This is 'a year of promises' for the millennium ahead. Turn to God. Rejoice in Hope. In the Greek tradition, gods did not make promises. That was for weaklings.
Promises are for people who want to get the gods on their side.
The one who makes promises of significance is God the Lord. The one who can be depended on to keep promises is God the Lord. History confirms God s faithfulness, crucially in the exodus from the slave-pen to the land of Promise. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you . New Testament writers identify the larger promise as already hidden in the Old Covenant.