For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
- BSB I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
- NKJV ‘For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you.
- NASB So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.
- NLT “I will look favorably upon you, making you fertile and multiplying your people. And I will fulfill my covenant with you.
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Quick answer
God promises to favor Israel, make them fruitful, multiply them, and confirm His covenant. He faithfully keeps His promises to His people.
Overview
These blessings echo the promises to Abraham of fruitfulness and a confirmed covenant. God's 'respect' or regard for His people is the source of their flourishing. The faithful covenant-keeping God here points to the new covenant established in Christ's blood, in which God dwells with and multiplies a people for Himself.
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- Gen 17:6–7And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
- Neh 9:23Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
- Ezek 16:62And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:
- Ps 107:38He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
- Isa 55:3Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Gen 28:3And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
- Ps 138:6–7Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
- Deut 28:11And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
- Jer 33:3Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
- Gen 28:14And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
- Ps 89:3I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
- Exod 6:4And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
- Exod 1:7And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
- Gen 26:4And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
- Gen 17:20And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
- Luke 1:72To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
- Deut 28:4Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
- Exod 2:25And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
- Gen 6:18But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
- 2 Kgs 13:23And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
- Heb 8:9Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
- Neh 2:20Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
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