Parallel Verses

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!

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

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

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

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Let our cattle bear
Without mishap and without loss,
And let there be no outcry in our streets!
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How blessed and favored are the people in such circumstance;
How blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored] are the people whose God is the Lord!

Cross References

Psalm 33:12


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.

Deuteronomy 33:29


“Happy and blessed are you, O Israel;
Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord,
The Shield of your help,
And the Sword of your majesty!
Your enemies will cringe before you,
And you will tread on their high places [tramping down their idolatrous altars].”

Psalm 146:5


How blessed and graciously favored is he whose help is the God of Jacob (Israel),
Whose hope is in the Lord his God,

Psalm 65:4


Blessed is the one whom You choose and bring near
To dwell in Your courts.
We will be filled with the goodness of Your house,
Your holy temple.

Psalm 89:15


Blessed and happy are the people who know the joyful sound [of the trumpet’s blast]!
They walk, O Lord, in the light and favor of Your countenance!

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed and worthy of praise be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ,

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