Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
Parallel translations
- KJV Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
- BSB Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
- NKJV Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
- NASB ‘Ask it of Me, and I will certainly give the nations as Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth as Your possession.
- NLT Only ask, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the whole earth as your possession.
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Cross-references · 5
- Ps 22:27All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
- Ps 89:27I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
- Ps 72:8He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.
- John 17:4–5I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
- Dan 7:13I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
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