Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out 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.”
- BSB But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched 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
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- Neh 1:10Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.
- Deut 4:34Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Deut 9:26I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
- 1 Kgs 8:51For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
- Ps 95:7For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
- Deut 4:20But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
- Ps 100:3Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
- Isa 63:19We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
- 1 Kgs 8:15And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, 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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