And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB and I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- BSB So I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will 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 5:10Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
- Ezek 39:21And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
- Jer 25:21Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
- Ezek 25:5And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
- Ezek 25:17And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
- Ps 9:16The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
- Ezek 30:14And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.
- Ezek 5:15So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
- Jer 48:1–47Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
- Ezek 11:9And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
- Ezek 16:41And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
- Ezek 5:8Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
- Jer 9:25–26Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
- Ezek 30:19Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
- Ps 149:7To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
- Jude 1:15To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
- Ezek 35:15As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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