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the glory due His name. We are to give thanks to Yahweh in this name. We are to proclaim
this name and honor and fear His name. This is the name that is to endure forever.
What a tragedy has occurred in removing the revealed name of God from scripture.
The name Yahweh has been totally removed. It brings one to consider Jeremiah’s words:

Jeremiah 23:26-27
Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even these
prophets of the deception of their own heart, who intend to make My people forget
My name by their dreams which they relate to one another, just as their fathers
forgot My name...

Truly, Christianity today has forgotten the name of Yahweh. Most only know Him by
titles and by the substitutions the translators have placed in the scriptures that are used
throughout Christendom.
It has not just been the NASB publishers that have followed this pattern of removing
the name of Yahweh from scripture. All of the most popular English translations have done
the same. Their reasoning is no more righteous, for they have not based their decision upon
the commandment of Yahweh, but upon the traditions of men.

For two reasons the Committee has returned to the more familiar usage [of
substituting YHWH with either the LORD or GOD] of the King James Version: (1)
the word 'Jehovah' does not accurately represent any form of the name ever used in
Hebrew; and (2) the use of any proper name for the one and only God ... was
discontinued in Judaism before the Christian era and is entirely inappropriate for
the universal faith of the Christian Church. (Revised Standard Version)

What a bold declaration, “the use of any proper name for the one and only God... was
discontinued in Judaism before the Christian era and is entirely inappropriate for the
universal faith of the Christian Church.” Where is the scripture to justify such a statement?
Where is any explanation other than that the Jews through their traditions, not by
commandment from Yahweh, quit using His name? How can they so brazenly assert that
it is “entirely inappropriate” to use the name Yahweh? If the Holy Spirit inspired the
scriptures and chose to have the name recorded nearly seven thousand times, how can man
declare that it is inappropriate to use the name?
The NIV Study Bible merely gives the following statement regarding their practice of
name substitution:

In regard to the divine name YHWH, commonly referred to as the tetragrammaton,
the translators adopted the device used in most English versions of rendering that
name as “LORD” in capital letters to distinguish it from Adonai, another Hebrew
word rendered “Lord,” for which small letters are used.
(NIV Study Bible © 1985 by The Zondervan Corporation)

A similar statement is made by the translators of the New Living Translation:

We have rendered the tetragrammaton (YHWH) consistently as “the LORD,”
utilizing a form with small capital letters that is common among English