World English Bible
Psalms 135:4
“For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.”
Psalms 135:4 in the King James Version
For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.Read Psalms 135:4 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Psalms 135
you who stand in the house of Yahweh, in the courts of our God's house.
Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good. Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant.
For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.
For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods.
Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;
Cross references for Psalms 135:4
- 1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
- Deuteronomy 10:15
Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
- Malachi 3:17
They shall be mine," says Yahweh of Armies, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
- Deuteronomy 7:6-7
For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more...
- Isaiah 43:20-21
The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen, the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth ...
- Isaiah 41:8
But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,
- Deuteronomy 32:9
For Yahweh's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
- 1 Samuel 12:22
For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.
- Psalms 33:12
Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
- Zechariah 2:10-12
Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,' says Yahweh. Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you sha...
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