and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
Parallel translations
- KJV And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
- BSB They will be My people, and I will be their God.
- NKJV They shall be My people, and I will be their God;
- NASB They shall be My people, and I will be their God;
- NLT They will be my people, and I will be their God.
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Quick answer
God renews the covenant pledge: they shall be His people and He their God. It restates the heart of the covenant relationship.
Overview
This formula expresses the goal of all God's redemptive dealings: a people belonging to Him and a God belonging to them. After judgment, God reaffirms this bond, showing His unbreakable commitment. The promise reaches its fullness in Christ and finds its consummation in the new creation, where God dwells with His people as their God (Rev. 21:3).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Ezek 11:19–20I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
- Jer 24:7I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
- Ps 144:15Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.
- Rev 21:7He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.
- Heb 8:10“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- Ezek 37:27My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- Deut 26:17–19You have declared today that Yahweh is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.
- Zech 13:9I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”
- Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
- Gen 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
- Jer 30:22“You shall be my people, and I will be your God.
- Jer 31:1“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”
- Ezek 36:28You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
- Ezek 39:28They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land; and I will leave none of them any more there;
- Ezek 39:22So the house of Israel shall know that I am Yahweh their God, from that day and forward.
- Heb 11:16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
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