Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your 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.
- BSB But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and 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.
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- Neh 1:10“Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.
- Deut 4:34Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Deut 9:26I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
- 1 Kgs 8:51(for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);
- Ps 95:7for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
- Deut 4:20But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
- Ps 100:3Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
- Isa 63:19We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.
- 1 Kgs 8:15He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has 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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