Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Therefore behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is Yahweh.”
- BSB “Therefore behold, I will inform them, and this time I will make them know My power and My might; then they will know that My name is the LORD.
- NKJV “Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know My hand and My might; And they shall know that My name is the Lord.
- NASB ¶“Therefore behold, I am going to make them know— This time I will make them know My power and My might; And they will know that My name is the Lord.”
- NLT The Lord says, “Now I will show them my power; now I will show them my might. At last they will know and understand that I am the Lord.
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Quick answer
God declares that He will at last make them know His power and might, so they will know that His name is the LORD. Through judgment, even a rebellious people will be brought to acknowledge who He truly is.
Overview
God's purpose in judgment is not merely punitive but revelatory: that they may know His hand, His might, and His name, Yahweh. This recurring aim, that people would know the LORD, runs throughout the prophets. It finds its fullest realization in Christ, through whom God makes His name and saving power known to the ends of the earth (John 17:6).
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Cross-references · 12
- Ps 9:16The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
- Jer 33:2Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
- Ps 83:18That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
- Amos 5:8Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
- Isa 43:3For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
- Exod 15:3The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
- Ezek 6:7And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
- Exod 14:4And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.
- Ezek 25:14And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.
- Ezek 24:27In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
- Ezek 24:24Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
- Exod 9:14–18For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.
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