He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah
Parallel translations
- WEB He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
- KJV He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
- NKJV He will choose our inheritance for us, The excellence of Jacob whom He loves. Selah
- NASB He chooses our inheritance for us, The pride of Jacob whom He loves. Selah
- NLT He chose the Promised Land as our inheritance, the proud possession of Jacob’s descendants, whom he loves. Interlude
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Quick answer
God chooses His people's inheritance, the pride of Jacob whom He loved. It matters because the believer's portion is a gift of God's electing love.
Overview
God Himself selects the inheritance for His people, an expression of His love for Jacob. The 'Selah' invites reflection on this grace. The inheritance He gives points beyond the land to the eternal inheritance secured in Christ for all whom God loves and calls His own.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- 1 Pet 1:4and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
- Amos 6:8The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”
- Nah 2:2For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine.
- Amos 8:7The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
- Eph 2:4–5But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
- Hos 14:4I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
- Jer 3:19Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
- 1 Jn 4:9–10This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
- 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.
- Isa 60:15Whereas you have been forsaken and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy from age to age.
- Mal 1:2“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,
- Ezek 20:6On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.
- Ps 16:3As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
- Deut 11:12It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.
- Eph 1:18I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
- 1 Cor 3:22–23whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,
- Matt 25:34Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
- Deut 33:3Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—
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