Therefore My people shall know My name; Therefore they shall know in that day That I am He who speaks: ‘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.”
- 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.
- BSB Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”
- 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 37:13–14You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
- Heb 8:10–11“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- Zech 10:9–12I will sow them among the peoples; and they will remember me in far countries; and they will live with their children, and will return.
- Ezek 20:44You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
- Exod 33:19He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
- Ezek 39:27–29when I have brought them back from the peoples, 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, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
- Ps 48:10As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.
- Exod 34:5–7Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name.
- Heb 6:14–18saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.”
- Isa 49:23Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
- Isa 42:9Behold, the former things have happened, and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”
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