Bible Strands
Isaiah 52:6
Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — YHWH addresses Israel as "My people" immediately after describing their unjust exile and the continuous blasphemy of His name by their oppressors (Isaiah 52:5). This declaration marks the moment when divine intervention will reverse their shame and restore their relationship with Him.
The words — The Hebrew לָ/כֵ֛ן (la./Khen) and יֵדַ֥ע (ye.Da') create a direct causal link: "therefore" and "it will know." This syntax binds the people's future recognition of God's name to His specific action on "that day" (הַ/ה֔וּא, ha./Hu').
The thread — The formula of God acting so His people will "know" He is the LORD recurs in Ezekiel 37:13 and Ezekiel 20:44, where physical deliverance forces covenant recognition. Zechariah 10:9 applies the same pattern to the diaspora, stating that scattered Israel will remember Him when He acts.
Why it lands — The text requires readers to identify God's name with His concrete actions rather than abstract titles. It demands that recognition of His authority wait for and respond to His historical intervention, not human speculation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 37:13 Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.
- Ezekiel 20:44 Then you will know, O house of Israel, that I am the LORD, when I have dealt with you for the sake of My name and not according to your wicked ways and corrupt acts, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Zechariah 10:9 Though I sow them among the nations, they will remember Me in distant lands; they and their children will live and return.
- Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Exodus 33:19 “I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
- Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Ezekiel 39:27 When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them out of the lands of their enemies, I will show My holiness in them in the sight of many nations.
- Psalms 48:10 Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.
- Exodus 34:5 And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.
- Hebrews 6:14 saying, “I will surely bless you and multiply your descendants.”