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.
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.
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).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
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.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 6. Therefore my people shall know] The word 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 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 hu, the Bodleian MS. and another have , Jehovah; “For I am JEHOVAH that promised;” and another ancient MS. adds Jehovah after 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.”
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
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.
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.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
6. shall know in that daywhenChrist shall reveal Himself to Israel sensibly; the only meanswhereby their obstinate unbelief shall be overcome (Psa 102:16;Zec 12:10; Zec 14:5).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
6. Therefore shall my people know. In this verse he concludes what he had glanced at in the two preceding verses, that at length the people must be redeemed by God, who cannot be unlike himself; for, if he redeemed the fathers, if he always assisted the Church, their posterity, whom he has adopted in the same manner, will never be suffered by him to be overwhelmed. We ought carefully to observe the word “know;” for to “know the name of the Lord” is to lay aside every false opinion, and to know him from his word, which is his true image, and next from his works. We must not imagine God according to the fancy of men, but must comprehend him as he declares himself to us. The Lord, therefore, concludes that he will actually assist them, and will fulfill all that he has promised, that the people may know that their hope has not been without foundation, and that they may be more and more confirmed in the knowledge of his name. We must keep in remembrance what we have elsewhere said about experimental knowledge, which confirms the truth of the word.
That it is I who speak. The verb “to speak” relates to the promises. הנני (hinni,) Behold I, relates to actual power; as if he had said, “Although now there be nothing more than that there sound in your ears the words by which I promise what is hardly probable, yet you shall speedily obtain it; for I will actually accomplish what I promise.” Hence we ought to draw the universal doctrine, that the promises of God and the fulfillment of them are linked together by an indissoluble bond. Whenever, therefore, Satan tempts and urges us to distrust, as if God had forsaken and abandoned us, we must come back to this point, and place our confidence in God, who never promises anything in vain. “If hitherto he does not perform, yet he will assist in due time.”
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
How very blessed and refreshing does this verse come in, after what went before! And, Reader, remark that this regard which Jehovah hath to his great name, is the best of all possible arguments for his people, when going to a throne of grace in Christ. See how Moses, how Joshua; dwelt upon it yea, observe how the Lord himself refers everything of grace which he purposeth, to this one glorious consideration; Exo 32:9-15 ; Jos 7:5-9 ; Eze 36:22-23 . Reader! do we truly know the Lord’s name, and is this gracious promise ours in Christ Jesus?
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
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.
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 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
my people: Exo 33:19, Exo 34:5-7, Psa 48:10, Eze 20:44, Eze 37:13, Eze 37:14, Eze 39:27-29, Zec 10:9-12, Heb 8:10, Heb 8:11
I am he: Isa 42:9, Num 23:19, Heb 6:14-18
Reciprocal: Exo 6:3 – Jehovah 2Ch 7:6 – ministry Isa 2:11 – in that day
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The Lord’s conclusion to the situation was twofold. First, He would so deliver His people that there would be no question in their minds that He was the only true God (cf. Eze 36:21-32). Second, Yahweh would prove that He is who He claimed to be, by fulfilling what He had predicted He would do. "In that day" anticipates a time, yet future, in which God would act decisively for His people to vindicate His name.
A hymn of praise ends this promise of redemption (cf. Isa 42:10-12; Isa 44:23; Isa 49:13; Isaiah 54).
"The prophet sees in spirit, how the tidings of the redemption, to which the fall of Babylon, which is equivalent to the dismission of the prisoners, gives the finishing stroke, are carried over the mountains of Judah to Jerusalem." [Note: Delitzsch, 2:298-99.]