Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

New American Standard Bible

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.

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

Happy is the nation whose God is Yahweh—
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.

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.

Bible in Basic English

Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אשׁר 
'esher 
Usage: 45

is the nation
גּי גּוי 
Gowy 
Usage: 558

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

is the Lord

Usage: 0

and the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

Devotionals

Devotionals about Psalm 33:12

Devotionals containing Psalm 33:12

References

Easton

Hastings

Morish

Images Psalm 33:12

Prayers for Psalm 33:12

Context Readings

Praise To Yahweh For His Character And Creation

11 The counsel of LORD stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is LORD, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. 13 LORD looks from heaven. He beholds all the sons of men.


Cross References

Psalm 144:15

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

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 28:9

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

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.

Exodus 19:5-6

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be my own possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine,

Deuteronomy 7:6-8

For thou are a holy people to LORD thy God. LORD thy God has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

Psalm 135:4

For LORD has chosen Jacob to himself, Israel for his own possession.

Psalm 147:19-20

He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

Jeremiah 10:16

The portion of Jacob is not like these. For he is the former of all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. LORD of hosts is his name.

John 15:16

Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and appointed you, so that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit may remain, so that anything whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, he may give you.

Ephesians 1:4

Just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and unblemished before him in love.

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us, so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a special people, a zealot of good works.

1 Peter 2:9

But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

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