So I will execute judgment on Egypt, and they will know that I am the LORD.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- KJV Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
- NKJV Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt, Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” ’ ”
- NASB “So I will execute judgments on Egypt, And they will know that I am the Lord.” ’ ”
- NLT And so I will greatly punish Egypt, and they will know that I am the Lord.”
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Quick answer
By these judgments God will make Egypt know that he is the LORD. The purpose of judgment is recognition of God.
Overview
The oracle concludes with the familiar refrain that Egypt will know Yahweh through his executed judgments. This recurring purpose statement frames the entire series: God acts so that his lordship is acknowledged. Even the downfall of a great empire serves the revelation of the one true God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Rev 17:1Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.
- Ezek 30:14I will lay waste Pathros, set fire to Zoan, and execute judgment on Thebes.
- Num 33:4who were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; for the LORD had executed judgment against their gods.
- Rom 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ezek 25:11So I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the LORD.’
- Ps 9:16The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
- Ps 149:7to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,
- 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.
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