For You have made Your people Israel Your very own people forever; and You, 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.
- BSB For You have made Your people Israel Your very own forever, and You, O 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 you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
- 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
- Deut 26:18–19Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.
- Deut 7:6–8For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
- 1 Sam 12:22For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.
- Zech 13:9I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”
- Gen 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
- Rom 9:4–6who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
- Rom 11:1–12I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
- Rom 9:25–26As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”
- Jer 31:31–34“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
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