Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
- KJV And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
- BSB Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.
- NKJV Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves.
- NLT When this happens, O my people, you will know that I am the Lord.
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Quick answer
When God opens their graves and raises them, they will know He is Yahweh. His saving acts produce true knowledge of God.
Overview
God's resurrecting work will lead His people to recognize Him as Lord. Salvation and the knowledge of God go together. As God raises His people, both then and ultimately in Christ, He reveals Himself, so that to know His saving power is to know Him.
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- Ezek 37:6I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezek 16:62I will establish my covenant with you; and you will know that I am Yahweh;
- Ps 126:2–3Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”
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