So I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the LORD.’
Parallel translations
- WEB and I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- KJV And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
- NKJV And I will execute judgments upon Moab, and they shall know that I am the Lord.”
- NASB So I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the Lord.”
- NLT In the same way, I will bring my judgment down on the Moabites. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
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Quick answer
God will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that He is Yahweh. The oracle closes by affirming God's purpose to be acknowledged through His just acts.
Overview
The sentence on Moab concludes with the recognition formula, 'they shall know that I am Yahweh.' As with each nation, the aim of judgment is the acknowledgment of the one true God. These oracles assure God's people that His justice reaches every nation and that His name will be vindicated in all the earth.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Ezek 5:10As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
- Ezek 39:21I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.
- Jer 25:21Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;
- Ezek 25:5I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
- Ezek 25:17I will execute great vengeance against them with furious reproof. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay My vengeance upon them.’”
- Ps 9:16The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
- Ezek 30:14I will lay waste Pathros, set fire to Zoan, and execute judgment on Thebes.
- Ezek 5:15So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.
- Jer 48:1–47Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and dismantled.
- Ezek 11:9I will bring you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners, and I will execute judgments against you.
- Ezek 16:41Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.
- Ezek 5:8Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
- Jer 9:25–26“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:
- Ezek 30:19So I will execute judgment on Egypt, and they will know that I am the LORD.”
- Ps 149:7to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,
- Jude 1:15to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”
- Ezek 35:15As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
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