“Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it; Yahweh is his name, says:
Parallel translations
- KJV Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
- BSB “Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it, the LORD is His name:
- NKJV “Thus says the Lord who made it, the Lord who formed it to establish it (the Lord is His name):
- NASB “This is what the Lord says, He who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to create it, He whose name is the Lord:
- NLT “This is what the Lord says—the Lord who made the earth, who formed and established it, whose name is the Lord:
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Quick answer
God identifies Himself as the LORD who makes, forms, and establishes, the LORD is His name. His creative power authenticates the promises to follow.
Overview
God introduces His message by naming Himself as the one who does and establishes His purposes, underscoring His sovereign ability. This self-identification assures that the coming promises rest on His unchanging power and character. The Creator who forms and establishes is the same God who accomplishes redemption and the new creation in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Isa 37:26Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.
- Exod 6:3and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.
- Exod 15:3Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.
- Exod 3:14–15God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
- Isa 14:32What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.
- Isa 62:7and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
- Isa 43:21the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.
- Ps 87:5Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her”; the Most High himself will establish her.
- Ps 102:16For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.
- Heb 11:10For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
- Isa 43:1But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.
- Rev 21:10He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
- Amos 5:8seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
- Jer 10:16The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
- Amos 9:6It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.
- Heb 11:16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
- Jer 32:18who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is his name;
- Rev 21:2I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
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