Isaiah 52 · Verse 6

Isaiah 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.
Isaiah 52:6, King James Version

Isaiah 52:6 in other translations

BSBTherefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”
WEBTherefore my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks. Behold, it is I.”
ASVTherefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak; behold, it is I.
YLTTherefore doth My people know My name, Therefore, in that day, Surely I am He who is speaking, behold Me.'
DARBYTherefore my people shall know my name; therefore they shall know in that day that I am HE, that saith, Here am I.
BBEFor this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to them; see, here am I.
WebsterTherefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

What does Isaiah 52:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
6. 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; Zec 12:10; 14:5).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
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 δια τουτο is repeated; probably so corrected, in order to make it conformable with the Hebrew text. I am he that Moth 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."

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 52:1-12

The welcome news of Christ's kingdom. (Is. 52:1-12) The humiliation of the Messiah. (Is. 52:13-15) Verses 1-12 The gospel proclaims liberty to those bound with fears. Let those weary and heavy laden under the burden of sin, find relief in Christ, shake themselves from the dust of their doubts and fears, and loose themselves from those bands. The price paid by the Redeemer for our salvation, was not silver or gold…

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Isaiah 52:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לָכֵ֛ןla.Khen<to> thereforeH3651
יֵדַ֥עye.Da'it will knowH3045
עַמִּ֖י'a.Mipeople myH5971
שְׁמִ֑יshe.Miname myH8034
לָכֵן֙la.Khen<to> thereforeH3651
בַּיּ֣וֹםbai.Yomin the dayH3117
הַה֔וּאha.Hu'<the> thatH1931
כִּֽי\־ki-thatH3588
אֲנִי\־'a.ni-IH589
ה֥וּאhu'[am] heH1931
הַֽמְדַבֵּ֖רham.da.Berwho is speakingH1696
הִנֵּֽנִי\׃hi.Ne.nihere [am] IH2005

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 52:6

  • Ezekiel 37:13-14

    And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.

  • Ezekiel 20:44

    And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have wrought with you for my name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord God.

  • Hebrews 8:10-11

    For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

  • Zechariah 10:9-12

    And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. 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 place shall not be found for them. And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away. And I will strengthen them in the Lord; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the Lord.

  • Exodus 33:19

    And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.

  • Ezekiel 39:27-29

    When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there. Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.

  • Numbers 23:19

    God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

  • Psalms 48:10

    According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

  • Exodus 34:5-7

    And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

  • Hebrews 6:14-18

    Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: …

  • Isaiah 49:23

    And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

  • Isaiah 42:9

    Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
my people.
Ex 33:19; 34:5-7; Ps 48:10; Eze 20:44; 37:13,14; 39:27-29
Zec 10:9-12; Heb 8:10,11
I am he.
42:9; Nu 23:19; Heb 6:14-18

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Context

  • Isaiah 52:5

    Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the Lord; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

  • Isaiah 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.

  • Isaiah 52:7

    How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

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Isaiah 52:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Por tanto, mi pueblo sabrá mi nombre por esta causa en aquel día: porque yo mismo que hablo, he aquí estaré presente.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		C’est pourquoi mon peuple connaîtra mon nom; c’est pourquoi, en ce jour-là, il connaîtra que c’est moi-même, qui dis: Me voici!
German
Elberfelder 1871		Darum soll mein Volk meinen Namen kennen lernen, darum an jenem Tage erfahren, daß ich es bin, der da spricht: Hier bin ich!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Propter hoc sciet populus meus nomen meum in die illa: quia ego ipse qui loquebar, ecce adsum.