YHVH Shammah — The LORD Is There
יְהוָה שָׁמָּה
'YHVH is there' — the final words of Ezekiel: the name of the city whose glory returned.
Ezekiel watched the glory leave the temple; his prophecy refuses to end until the city is renamed Presence. Both traditions read history as the long road back to this name — Revelation's new Jerusalem is YHVH Shammah in Greek.
First occurrence
Ezek 48:35 — The book's last verse
Key passages
Ezek 10:18 — The glory departing — the wound this name heals
Rev 21:3 — 'Behold, the dwelling of God is with men'
In the Greek Scriptures
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