You descendants of Abraham, His servant, You sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!
Parallel translations
- WEB you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
- KJV O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
- BSB O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
- NKJV O seed of Abraham His servant, You children of Jacob, His chosen ones!
- NLT you children of his servant Abraham, you descendants of Jacob, his chosen ones.
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Quick answer
He addresses the offspring of Abraham and the children of Jacob, God's chosen ones. The summons is to the covenant people God graciously elected.
Overview
The psalmist names the audience as the descendants of Abraham and Jacob, God's chosen servants and people. Their identity rests on God's electing grace, not their own worth. This chosen people foreshadows the church, chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4).
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 44:1–2Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.
- John 15:16You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
- 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
- Isa 41:8“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,
- Ps 105:42For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
- Ps 106:5that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
- Ps 135:4For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.
- Deut 7:6–8For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
- Isa 41:14Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
- Exod 3:6Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.
- Rom 9:4–29who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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