Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks. Behold, it is I.”
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Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks. Behold, it is I.”
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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.
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Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore they shall know in that day that I, even He that spoke, behold, here I am.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 52:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 37:13-14 You will know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people. I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it,” says Yahweh.’ ”
- Ezekiel 20:44 You will 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.’ ”
- Zechariah 10:9-12 I will sow them among the peoples; and they will remember me in far countries; and they will live with their children, and will return. I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and there won’t be room enough for them. He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart. I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.
- Hebrews 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. They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.
- Exodus 33:19 He 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.”
- Ezekiel 39:27-29 when 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. They will know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land. Then I will leave none of them captive any more. I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
- Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a 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?
- Psalms 48:10 As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.
- Exodus 34:5-7 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name. Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
- Hebrews 6:14-18 saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.” Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
- Isaiah 42:9 Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”
- Isaiah 49:23 Kings 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.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 52:6 Therefore my people shall know my name:…
Isa 52:6 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.
Ver. 6. Therefore my people shall know my name,] sc., That I am Jehovah; {as Exo 6:3} the God of Amen, {Isa 65:16} who "will not suffer my faithfulness to fail, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my mouth." {Psa 89:33-34} And it shall therefore be so because my name - that nomen maiestativum - hath been blasphemed and vilified. God’s people fare the better for their enemies’ insolencies.
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That I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.] Or, That it is I that do speak, saying, Lo, here I am. This some understand to be the second person in the Trinity, the eternal Son of the eternal Father, called "the Word," {Joh 1:1} and there are those who give us this rule - Where the Old Testament bringeth in God appearing and speaking, we are to understand it always to be the second person. See Joh 12:37-42.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain My people shall know my name; they shall have…
My people shall know my name; they shall have sensible experience of my infinite power and goodness in fighting for them and against you; whereby they shall be able to put your blasphemous tongues to silence.
They shall know; which word is understood from the foregoing clause, as is very frequent in Scripture.
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In that day; when I shall redeem my people: which work was begun by the return of the Jews from Babylon, and afterwards carried on, and at last perfected, by the coming of the Messiah.
That I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I: that all these promises are not the words of a weak, or fickle, or deceitful man, but of him who is the omnipotent, and unchangeable, and covenant-keeping God. Or thus, That I who have formerly spoken to you by my servants the prophets, (for it was the Spirit of Christ which was and spake in them, 1Pe 1:11) do now speak to you in my own person, being clothed with flesh; which agrees well, as with the analogy of faith, and with divers other scriptures, so particularly with the next verse, and with divers following passages, which so evidently speak of the person and kingdom of Christ, that they cannot without great force be understood of any other.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Therefore my people shall know my name,.... His nature…
Therefore my people shall know my name,.... His nature and perfections; his faithfulness in fulfilling his promises to them; his power in delivering them out of their bondage; and his justice in punishing their enemies.
Therefore they shall know on that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I; they shall then see, when the people of God are delivered from the antichristian slavery and bondage, and when Babylon is fallen, that all the promises God has spoken are yea and amen; that Jesus Christ is the true and faithful witness; and that these are his true and faithful sayings, which he has spoken.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Shall know - They shall experience my power and…
Shall know - They shall experience my power and goodness in fighting for them. In that day - When I shall redeem my people: which work was begun by the return of the Jews from Babylon, and perfected by the coming of the Messiah. Behold - That all these promises are the words of the omnipotent, unchangeable God.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 6. Therefore my people shall know] The word…
Verse 6. Therefore my people shall know] The word לכן lachen, occurring the second time in this verse, seems to be repeated by mistake. It has no force nor emphasis as a repetition; it only embarrasses the construction and the sense. It was not in the copies from which the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate were translated; it was not in the copy of the Septuagint from which the Arabic was translated; but in the Aldine and Complutensian editions διατουτο is repeated; probably so corrected, in order to make it conformable with the Hebrew text.
I am he that doth speak - "I am he, JEHOVAH, that promised"] For הוא hu, the Bodleian MS. and another have יהוה, Jehovah; "For I am JEHOVAH that promised;" and another ancient MS. adds יהוה Jehovah after הוא hu. The addition of JEHOVAH seems to be right in consequence of what was said in the preceding line, "My people shall know my name."
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Therefore my people shall know my name - The…
Therefore my people shall know my name - The idea in this verse is, that his people should have such exhibitions of his power as to furnish to them demonstration that he was God.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Here. Jesus Christ appears, the Redeemer foretold so long…
Here. Jesus Christ appears, the Redeemer foretold so long before.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain shall know in that day--when Christ shall reveal Himself…
shall know in that day--when Christ shall reveal Himself to Israel sensibly; the only means whereby their obstinate unbelief shall be overcome (Psa 102:16; Zac 12:10; Zac 14:5).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. The contempt thus brought on His name is…
6. The contempt thus brought on His name is the crowning motive of Jehovah’s interposition,—another point of affinity with Ezekiel (see Eze_36:21).
my people shall know my name] i.e. shall know by experience what My name imports; comp. “shall know that I am Jehovah,” in Ezekiel (Eze_20:42; Eze_20:44 and often). The second therefore, followed by no new verb, is both superfluous and difficult and should probably be omitted, with LXX.
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that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I] The last words “behold me” are hardly to be taken as obj. of the verb “speak”; they simply repeat the sense of the preceding clause: “They shall know that it is I who speak; here am I” (cf. Eze_5:13).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Therefore. Because of the "howling" and the "blasphemy." My…
Therefore. Because of the "howling" and the "blasphemy." My people shall know my Name; i.e. "my people shall know by practical experience that I am all that my name of El or Elohim Strong," "the Powerful implies." They shall know in that day. The "day" when God would come to their help and deliver them from their oppressors when they would call upon him, and he would manifest himself, (Isa_58:9) responding to their appeal as distinctly as though he said, "Here I am.
Knowing God"s Name.
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By that is meant finding out for ourselves all that is involved in his Name; proving for ourselves what he can and will do, even for us. The prophet has recalled to mind the deliverance from Egypt, and is full of the revelation which was then made, to Moses, of God"s Name. Elsewhere it has been shown that God"s Name is twofold.
1. An incommunicable name a bare assertion of existence, "Jehovah, I am.
2. A relational name, that sets us upon observing what God has done and does. "The God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob." Now we gain illustration from another incident in the Mosaic history. Moses, in one of the sternest experiences of his life, asked for the infinite comforting of being shown the Lord"s glory; and this was the Divine response, "I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the Name of the Lord before thee." Evidently the adequate impression of God"s goodness is "knowing God"s Name." And the special point of goodness dwelt on in our text is the goodness that restores us from the consequences of our own follies and sins.
I THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD"S NAME THAT COMES BY REVELATION. This is mainly a head knowledge, and does not, of necessity, influence the spirit or the conduct.
II THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD"S NAME THAT COMES THROUGH THE EXPERIENCES OF OTHERS.
1. As recorded in the Word.
2. As met with in life.
This is helpful, but it is secondary knowledge. And the response we make to it is goodness upon other people"s persuasion, and is only likely to last so long as the persuasion lasts. Like the parasite, we are,good just as long as we have somebody else"s life to drink of.
III THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD"S NAME THAT COMES THROUGH OUR OWN EXPERIENCES. We never really know God until we know him for ourselves, by our own soul-sight and soul-touch. This is well expressed by the saint of old, "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." In the text God assures his people that his restoring mercies shall be a personal revelation of himself to them; and, knowing him, they shall know the full joy of full trust. R.T.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 52:6 Just as God did to Moses before the…
52:6 Just as God did to Moses before the Exodus (Exod 3:15), he will reveal himself in the coming rescue from exile.
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