For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.
Parallel translations
- WEB You established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.
- BSB For You have established Your people Israel as 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 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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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 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;
- 1 Pet 2:10Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
- 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.
- Jer 31:33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- Isa 12:2Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
- John 1:12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
- Ps 48:14For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
- Jer 31:1At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
- Deut 27:9And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.
- Hos 1:10Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
- 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.
- 2 Sam 7:23And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
- Exod 15:2The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
- 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.
- 1 Chr 17:22For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
- Exod 6:7And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
- Jer 32:38And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
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