And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:
Parallel translations
- WEB I will establish my covenant with you; and you will know that I am Yahweh;
- BSB So I will establish My covenant with you, and you will 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.
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Cross-references · 9
- Jer 24:7And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
- Ezek 6:7And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
- Ezek 39:22So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
- Joel 3:17So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
- Hos 2:18–23And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
- Ezek 20:37And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
- Ezek 16:60Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
- Ezek 20:43–44And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
- Dan 9:27And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
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