For You have established Your people Israel as Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.
Parallel translations
- WEB You established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
- KJV For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art 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 established for Yourself Your people Israel as Your own people forever, and You, Lord, have become their God.
- NLT You made Israel your very own people forever, and you, O Lord, became their God.
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Quick answer
David affirmed that God established Israel as His own people forever and became their God. The covenant bond is mutual and enduring.
Overview
The promise 'you shall be my people, and I will be your God' is the heart of the biblical covenant relationship. David rejoices that this bond is permanent, secured by God's faithfulness. It reaches its climax in the new covenant, where God dwells with His redeemed people forever (Revelation 21:3).
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- Deut 26:18And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,
- 1 Pet 2:10Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
- 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.
- Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Isa 12:2Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
- John 1:12But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
- Ps 48:14For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
- Jer 31:1“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”
- Deut 27:9Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel: “Be silent, O Israel, and listen! This day you have become the people of the LORD your God.
- Hos 1:10Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
- 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.’”
- 2 Sam 7:23And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.
- Exod 15:2The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
- 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,”
- 1 Chr 17:22For You have made Your people Israel Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.
- Exod 6:7I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
- Jer 32:38They will be My people, and I will be their God.
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