Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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
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The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
The thoughts and plans of His heart through all generations.
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.
The Lord looks [down] from heaven;
He sees all the sons of man;
Names
Cross References
Psalm 144:15
How blessed and favored are the people in such circumstance;
How blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored] are the people whose God is the Lord!
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 28:9
Save Your people and bless Your inheritance;
Be their shepherd also, and carry them forever.
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.
Exodus 19:5-6
Now therefore, if you will in fact obey My voice and keep My covenant (agreement), then you shall be My own special possession and treasure from among all peoples [of the world], for all the earth is Mine;
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
For you are a holy people [set apart] to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people for His own possession [that is, His very special treasure].
Psalm 135:4
For the Lord has chosen [the descendants of] Jacob for Himself,
Israel for His own special treasure and possession.
Psalm 147:19-20
He declares His word to Jacob,
His statutes and His ordinances to Israel.
Jeremiah 10:16
The Portion of Jacob [the true God on whom Israel has a claim] is not like these;
For He is the Designer and Maker of all things,
And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance [and He will not fail them]—
The Lord of hosts is His name.
John 15:16
Ephesians 1:4
just as [in His love] He chose us in Christ [actually selected us for Himself as His own] before the foundation of the world, so that we would be holy [that is, consecrated, set apart for Him, purpose-driven] and blameless in His sight. In love
Titus 2:14
who [willingly] gave Himself [to be crucified] on our behalf to redeem us and purchase our freedom from all wickedness, and to purify for Himself a chosen and very special people to be His own possession, who are enthusiastic for doing what is good.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a [special] people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies [the wonderful deeds and virtues and perfections] of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.