Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
Parallel translations
- WEB Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
- KJV Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
- NKJV Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.
- NASB Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, The people He has chosen for His own inheritance.
- NLT What joy for the nation whose God is the Lord, whose people he has chosen as his inheritance.
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Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he has chosen as his inheritance.
Overview
True blessedness belongs to the people who have the Lord as their God and are claimed by him as his own. This points to God's gracious election and covenant favor. In Christ this blessing extends to a people gathered from every nation, God's chosen heritage.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 144:15Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.
- 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
- John 15:16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
- Deut 7:6–8For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
- Ps 65:4Blessed is the one You choose and bring near to dwell in Your courts! We are filled with the goodness of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.
- Eph 1:4For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
- Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- Deut 33:29Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”
- Exod 19:5–6Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
- Ps 135:4For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
- Ps 147:19–20He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and judgments to Israel.
- Jer 10:16The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance—the LORD of Hosts is His name.
- Ps 28:9Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; shepherd them and carry them forever.
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