Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, The people He has chosen for His own 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.
- BSB Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
- NKJV Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, The people He has chosen as 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 144:15Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- Ps 65:4Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.
- Eph 1:4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;
- Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- Deut 33:29You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”
- Exod 19:5–6Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
- Ps 135:4For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.
- Ps 147:19–20He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
- Jer 10:16The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
- Ps 28:9Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.
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