And I will reaffirm 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:
- 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,
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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 24:7I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
- Ezek 6:7The slain shall fall among you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezek 39:22So the house of Israel shall know that I am Yahweh their God, from that day and forward.
- Joel 3:17“So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more.
- Hos 2:18–23In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.
- Ezek 20:37“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 you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
- Ezek 20:43–44There you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.
- Dan 9:27He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out on the desolate.
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