Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

You have established your people Israel for yourself as a people forever, and you, O Yahweh, have become their God.

New American Standard Bible

For You have established for Yourself Your people Israel as Your own people forever, and You, O Lord, have become their God.

King James Version

For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.

Holman Bible

You established Your people Israel to be Your own people forever, and You, Lord, have become their God.

International Standard Version

You have prepared your people Israel to be your very own people for ever, and you, LORD, have become their God!

A Conservative Version

And thou established to thyself thy people Israel to be a people to thee forever, and thou, LORD, became their God.

American Standard Version

And thou didst establish to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their God.

Amplified

You established for Yourself Your people Israel as Your people forever, and You, O Lord, have become their God.

Bible in Basic English

But you took and made strong for yourself your people Israel, to be your people for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.

Darby Translation

And thou hast established to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou, Jehovah, art become their God.

Julia Smith Translation

And thou wilt prepare to thyself thy people Israel to thee for a people, even to forever. And thou Jehovah wert to them for God.

King James 2000

For you have confirmed to yourself your people Israel to be a people unto you forever: and you, LORD, have become their God.

Modern King James verseion

For You have confirmed to Yourself Your people Israel to be a people to You forever. And You, Jehovah, have become their God.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And thou hast ordained thy people Israel to be thy people forever. And thou, LORD, art their God.

NET Bible

You made Israel your very own people for all time. You, O Lord, became their God.

New Heart English Bible

You established for yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever; and you, LORD, became their God.

The Emphasized Bible

and hast established for thyself thy people Israel - for thyself as a people, unto times age-abiding, - thou thyself, also, O Yahweh, becoming their God.

Webster

For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people to thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.

World English Bible

You established for yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

Youngs Literal Translation

Yea, Thou dost establish to Thee Thy people Israel, to Thee for a people unto the age, and Thou, Jehovah, hast been to them for God.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

to be a people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

עד 
`ad 
by, as long, hitherto, when, how long, as yet
Usage: 784

עלם עולם 
`owlam 
Usage: 438

and thou, Lord

Usage: 0

References

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Context Readings

David Responds To Yahweh's Covenant

23 Who [is] like your people, like Israel? [Israel is] the one nation on earth whose God {led them}, [in order] to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to do for you the great and awesome things for your land in the presence of your people whom he redeemed for himself from Egypt, [from the] nations and their gods. 24 You have established your people Israel for yourself as a people forever, and you, O Yahweh, have become their God. 25 So then, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do just as you have promised.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 26:18

And Yahweh [has] declared you {today} to be for him as a people, a treasured possession, as he {promised} to you, and [that you are] to observe all his commandments,

Genesis 17:7

And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and between your offspring after you, throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant to be as God for you and to your offspring after you.

Psalm 48:14

that this [is] God, our God forever and ever. {He himself} will guide us until death.

Exodus 6:7

And I will take you {as my people}, and I will be {your God}, and you will know that I [am] Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the {forced labor} of Egypt.

Exodus 15:2

Yah [is] my strength and song, and he has become my salvation; this [is] my God, and I will praise him--the God of my father--and I will exalt him.

Deuteronomy 27:9

Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Israel, saying, "Be silent and hear, Israel, [for] this day you have become {a people} for Yahweh your God.

2 Samuel 7:23

Who [is] like your people, like Israel? [Israel is] the one nation on earth whose God {led them}, [in order] to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to do for you the great and awesome things for your land in the presence of your people whom he redeemed for himself from Egypt, [from the] nations and their gods.

1 Chronicles 17:22

And you made your people Israel an everlasting nation for yourself. And you, O Yahweh, became their God.

Isaiah 12:2

Look! God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and I will not be afraid, for my strength and might [is] Yah, Yahweh; and he has become salvation for me."

Jeremiah 31:1

"At that time," {declares} Yahweh, "I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they will be to me a people."

Jeremiah 31:33

"But this [is] the covenant that I will {make} with the house of Israel after those days," {declares} Yahweh: "I will put my law in their inward parts and on their hearts I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people.

Jeremiah 32:38

And they will be for me a people, and I will be for them God.

Hosea 1:10

The number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea that cannot be measured or counted; and in the place where it is said to them, "You are not my people," it will be said to them, "Children of [the] living God."

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring the [remaining] third into the fire, and I will refine them like [one] refines silver, and I will test them like [one] tests gold. They will call my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people,' and they will say, 'Yahweh [is] my God.'"

John 1:12

But as many as received him--to those who believe in his name--he gave to them authority to become children of God,

Romans 9:25-26

As he also says in Hosea, "I will call those [who were] not my people, 'My people,' and those [who were] not loved, 'Loved.'

1 Peter 2:10

who once [were] not a people, but now [are] the people of God, the ones [who were] not shown mercy, but now are shown mercy.

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