For You have made Your people Israel Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.
Parallel translations
- WEB For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
- KJV For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
- NKJV For You have made Your people Israel Your very own people forever; and You, Lord, have become their God.
- NASB For You have made Your people Israel Your own people forever, and You, Lord, became their God.
- NLT You chose Israel to be your very own people forever, and you, O Lord, became their God.
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Quick answer
God made Israel his own people forever and became their God. It affirms the enduring covenant bond between the Lord and his people.
Overview
David rehearses the covenant formula, 'you will be my people and I will be your God,' that defines Israel's relationship with the Lord. This permanence of God's commitment undergirds David's confidence in the promises just given. The same covenant bond is fulfilled and extended in the new covenant, where God dwells with his redeemed people forever (2 Corinthians 6:16; Revelation 21:3).
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- Exod 19:5–6Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
- 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
- Deut 26:18–19And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,
- Deut 7:6–8For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
- 1 Sam 12:22Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.
- Zech 13:9This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
- Gen 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Rom 9:4–6the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
- Rom 11:1–12I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
- Rom 9:25–26As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”
- Jer 31:31–34Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
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