Psalm 47:4

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Summary

Psalm 47:4

He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

Choose

1 Peter 1:4

Excellency

Nahum 2:2

Whom

General references

Psalm 98:4

Psalm 136:22

Bible References

Choose

It is a land the Lord your God cares for. He is always watching over it from the beginning to the end of the year.

I thought: How I long to make you My sons
and give you a desirable land,
the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations.
I thought: You will call Me, my Father,
and never turn away from Me.

On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come—everything is yours,

I pray that the perception of your mind may be enlightened so you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the glorious riches of His inheritance among the saints,

and into an inheritance that is imperishable, uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.

Excellency

As for the holy people who are in the land,
they are the noble ones.
All my delight is in them.

Instead of your being deserted and hated,
with no one passing through,
I will make you an object of eternal pride,
a joy from age to age.

The Lord God has sworn by Himself—this is the declaration of Yahweh, the God of Hosts:

I loathe Jacob’s pride
and hate his citadels,
so I will hand over the city and everything in it.

The Lord has sworn by the Pride of Jacob:

I will never forget all their deeds.

For the Lord will restore the majesty of Jacob,
yes, the majesty of Israel,
though ravagers have ravaged them
and ruined their vine branches.

Whom

For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be His own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

Indeed He loves the people.

All Your holy ones are in Your hand,
and they assemble at Your feet.
Each receives Your words.

I will heal their apostasy;
I will freely love them,
for My anger will have turned from him.

“I have loved you,” says the Lord.

But you ask: “How have You loved us?”

“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” This is the Lord’s declaration. “Even so, I loved Jacob,

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us,

God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent His One and Only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

General references

Shout to the Lord, all the earth;
be jubilant, shout for joy, and sing.

an inheritance to Israel His servant.
His love is eternal.