But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
- KJV Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
- NKJV Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.’
- NASB Yet they are Your people, and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and Your outstretched arm.’
- NLT But they are your people and your special possession, whom you brought out of Egypt by your great strength and powerful arm.’
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Quick answer
Moses closes by reaffirming that Israel is still God's people and inheritance, redeemed by His great power. He rests the case wholly on God's claim upon them.
Overview
The prayer ends where it must, on God's ownership of Israel as His treasured inheritance. Despite their sin, the bond God established by redemption remains the basis of hope. This confidence that God will not abandon those He has redeemed is fulfilled in Christ, who secures His people forever.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Neh 1:10They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.
- Deut 4:34Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- Deut 9:26And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
- 1 Kgs 8:51For they are Your people and Your inheritance; You brought them out of Egypt, out of the furnace for iron.
- Ps 95:7For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
- Deut 4:20Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.
- Ps 100:3Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
- Isa 63:19We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.
- 1 Kgs 8:15and said: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His own hand what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying,
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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