Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.
New American Standard Bible
The people whom He has
King James Version
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Holman Bible
the people He has chosen to be His own possession!
International Standard Version
How blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he has chosen as his own inheritance.
A Conservative Version
Blessed is the nation whose God is LORD, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
American Standard Version
Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, The people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Amplified
Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people whom He has chosen as His own inheritance.
Darby Translation
Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, the people that he hath chosen for his inheritance!
Julia Smith Translation
Happy the nation to whom Jehovah is his God; the people he chose for an inheritance to him.
King James 2000
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] Yahweh, the people he has chosen for his inheritance.
Modern King James verseion
Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah; the people He has chosen for His inheritance.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD Jehovah; and blessed are the folk whom he hath chosen to be his inheritance.
NET Bible
How blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.
New Heart English Bible
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
The Emphasized Bible
How happy the nation whose God is, Yahweh, The people he hath chosen as his own inheritance!
Webster
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
World English Bible
Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
Youngs Literal Translation
O the happiness of the nation whose God is Jehovah, Of the people He did choose, For an inheritance to Him.
Themes
Choosing/chosen » Those that are chosen of the lord
Topics
Interlinear
'elohiym
Devotionals
Devotionals about Psalm 33:12
Devotionals containing Psalm 33:12
References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 33:12
Prayers for Psalm 33:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To Yahweh For His Character And Creation
11 The Lord's purpose is eternal, the designs of his heart go on through all the generations of man. 12 Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage. 13 The Lord is looking down from heaven; he sees all the sons of men;
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:29
Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on their high places.
Psalm 28:9
Be a saviour to your people, and send a blessing on your heritage: be their guide, and let them be lifted up for ever.
Psalm 65:4
Happy is the man of your selection, to whom you give a resting-place in your house; we will be full of the good things out of your holy place.
Exodus 19:5-6
If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
Psalm 135:4
For the Lord has taken Jacob for himself, and Israel for his property.
Psalm 147:19-20
He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.
Jeremiah 10:16
The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.
John 15:16
You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.
Ephesians 1:4
Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:
Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.