For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtu
Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them,
“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them a
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possessio
But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.
“Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares the LORD.
Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own
The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rive
O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zeal
Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—fo