" I, I am the LORD , and besides me there is no savior. I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses,” declares the Lord , “and I am God. Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?” As a first order of business, let's be done with this LORD crap. 6,283 (or something like that...I know it's at least 6,000) times in the Old Testament the tetragrammaton "YHWH" is seen. Now in ancient Hebrew the vowels were never written. The reader supplied them. At any rate, the probable pronunciation is Yahweh. That is the generally accepted rendering. To cut this little rabbit trail short, Lord is a title, but Yahweh is a name--a personal name, just like Bob or Ted (but way better). The Bible does use the generic term Lord to refer to God, and when you see it written Lord, that is ...