For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
Parallel translations
- KJV For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
- BSB For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.
- NKJV For the Lord will not cast off His people, Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
- NASB For the Lord will not abandon His people, Nor will He abandon His inheritance.
- NLT The Lord will not reject his people; he will not abandon his special possession.
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Quick answer
The LORD will not reject His people or forsake His inheritance. God's covenant commitment to His own is unbreakable.
Overview
This assurance is the heart of the psalmist's confidence amid oppression: God will never abandon those He has claimed. His faithfulness to His inheritance guarantees that present suffering is not the final word. Paul applies this same promise to God's enduring faithfulness to His people (Romans 11:1-2; 1 Samuel 12:22).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- 1 Sam 12:22For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.
- Ps 37:28For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
- Rom 11:1–2I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
- Rom 8:30Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
- Deut 32:9For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
- John 10:27–31My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
- Eph 1:18having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
- Heb 13:5Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
- Isa 49:14–15But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”
- Rom 8:38–39For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
- Jer 32:39–40and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:
- Ps 34:12Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
- 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 94:5They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
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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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