Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

blessed [are] the people who are in such a case. Blessed are the people whose God is LORD.

New American Standard Bible

How blessed are the people who are so situated;
How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

King James Version

Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

Holman Bible

Happy are the people with such blessings.
Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.

International Standard Version

Happy are the people to whom these things come; happy are the people whose God is the LORD. A Davidic Psalm

American Standard Version

Happy is the people that is in such a case; Yea , happy is the people whose God is Jehovah.

Amplified


How blessed and favored are the people in such circumstance;
How blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored] are the people whose God is the Lord!

Darby Translation

Blessed the people that is in such a case! Blessed the people whose God is Jehovah!

Julia Smith Translation

Happy the people thus and thus to him: happy the people Jehovah his God.

King James 2000

Happy is that people, that is in such a state: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Blessed [are] the people who have [it] thus. Blessed [are] the people whose God [is] Yahweh.

Modern King James verseion

Blessed are the peoples who are so; blessed are the peoples to whom Jehovah is their God.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Happy are the people that be in such a case; yea, blessed are the people, which have the LORD for their God.

NET Bible

How blessed are the people who experience these things! How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

New Heart English Bible

Blessed are the people who are in such a situation. Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.

The Emphasized Bible

How happy the people that is in such a case! How happy the people that hath Yahweh for its God!

Webster

Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yes, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

World English Bible

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh. A praise psalm by David.

Youngs Literal Translation

O the happiness of the people that is thus, O the happiness of the people whose God is Jehovah!

Context Readings

A King's Prayer

14 our oxen are well laden, no breaking in, and no going forth, and no outcry in our streets, 15 blessed [are] the people who are in such a case. Blessed are the people whose God is LORD.


Cross References

Psalm 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is LORD, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

Deuteronomy 33:29

Happy are thou, O Israel. Who is like thee, a people saved by LORD, the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy excellency! And thine enemies shall submit themselves to thee, and thou shall tread upon their high places.

Psalm 146:5

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in LORD his God,

Psalm 65:4

Blessed is the man whom thou choose and cause to approach, that he may dwell in thy courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, thy holy temple.

Psalm 89:15

Blessed is the people who know the joyful sound. They walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly things in Christ.

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