Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks. Behold, it is I.”
- KJV Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
- NKJV Therefore My people shall know My name; Therefore they shall know in that day That I am He who speaks: ‘Behold, it is I.’ ”
- NASB Therefore, My people shall know My name; therefore on that day I am the one who is speaking, ‘Here I am.’ ”
- NLT But I will reveal my name to my people, and they will come to know its power. Then at last they will recognize that I am the one who speaks to them.”
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Quick answer
God promises that His people will come to know His name and recognize that He Himself is the one who speaks and acts.
Overview
In the day of deliverance, God's people will truly know His name, understanding that the God who promised is the one now present to save. The phrase 'it is I' (literally 'here am I' or 'I am he') underscores His personal presence. This knowledge of God reaches its fullness in Christ, who reveals the Father's name (John 17:6) and declares 'I am' (John 8:58).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ezek 37:13–14Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.
- Heb 8:10–11For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Zech 10:9–12Though I sow them among the nations, they will remember Me in distant lands; they and their children will live and return.
- Ezek 20:44Then you will know, O house of Israel, that I am the LORD, when I have dealt with you for the sake of My name and not according to your wicked ways and corrupt acts, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Exod 33:19“I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
- Ezek 39:27–29When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them out of the lands of their enemies, I will show My holiness in them in the sight of many nations.
- Num 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Ps 48:10Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.
- Exod 34:5–7And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.
- Heb 6:14–18saying, “I will surely bless you and multiply your descendants.”
- Isa 49:23Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”
- Isa 42:9Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”
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