For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
Parallel translations
- WEB For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
- BSB For You have made Your people Israel Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become 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 therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
- 1 Pet 2:9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
- Deut 26:18–19And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
- Deut 7:6–8For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
- 1 Sam 12:22For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
- Zech 13:9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
- Gen 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
- Rom 9:4–6Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
- Rom 11:1–12I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
- Rom 9:25–26As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
- Jer 31:31–34Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
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