In the same way, I will bring my judgment down on the Moabites. Then 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.
- 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.”
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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 will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.
- Ezek 39:21I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
- Jer 25:21Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;
- Ezek 25:5I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a resting place for flocks: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezek 25:17I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.
- Ps 9:16Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
- Ezek 30:14I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.
- Ezek 5:15So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes — I, Yahweh, have spoken it —
- Jer 48:1–47Of Moab. Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.
- Ezek 11:9“I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
- Ezek 16:41They will burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you will also give no hire any more.
- Ezek 5:8therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
- Jer 9:25–26“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:
- Ezek 30:19Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ps 149:7To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;
- Jude 1:15to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
- Ezek 35:15As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
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