So I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD,
Parallel translations
- WEB I will establish my covenant with you; and you will know that I am Yahweh;
- KJV And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:
- NKJV And I will establish My covenant with you. Then you shall know that I am the Lord,
- NASB So I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord,
- NLT And I will reaffirm my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the Lord.
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Quick answer
God will establish His covenant, and Jerusalem will know that He is Yahweh. Restoration leads to true knowledge of God.
Overview
The repeated covenant promise climaxes in the goal of all God's dealings: that His people will know Him as the LORD. This knowledge is relational and saving, not merely intellectual. The new covenant brings exactly this intimate knowledge of God to all His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Jer 24:7I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.
- Ezek 6:7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
- Ezek 39:22From that day forward the house of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God.
- Joel 3:17Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.
- Hos 2:18–23On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and weapons of war in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.
- Ezek 20:37I will make you pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond of the covenant.
- Ezek 16:60But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
- Ezek 20:43–44There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.
- Dan 9:27And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”
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