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.
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.”
- BSB Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”
- 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 37:13–14And 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,
- Heb 8:10–11For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
- Zech 10:9–12And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.
- Ezek 20:44And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
- Exod 33:19And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
- Ezek 39:27–29When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
- Num 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
- Ps 48:10According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
- Exod 34:5–7And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
- Heb 6:14–18Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
- Isa 49:23And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
- Isa 42:9Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
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