Psalm 47:4 “He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves.…”

Psalm 47:4

He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

American Standard Version

He chooseth our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom he loved. [Selah

Geneva Bible 1599

Hee hath chosen our inheritance for vs: euen the glory of Iaakob whom he loued. Selah.

Darby Translation

He hath chosen our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

Young's Literal Translation

He doth choose for us our inheritance, The excellency of Jacob that He loves. Selah.

Bible in Basic English

He will give us our heritage, the glory of Jacob who is dear to him. (Selah.)

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Cross references

“choose”

1 Peter 1:4 Jeremiah 3:19 Deuteronomy 11:12 Ezekiel 20:6 Matthew 25:34 Ephesians 1:18

1 Peter 1:4 · BSB

and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,

Jeremiah 3:19 · BSB

Then I said, ‘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 would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.

Deuteronomy 11:12 · BSB

It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.

Ezekiel 20:6 · BSB

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

Matthew 25:34 · BSB

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.

Ephesians 1:18 · BSB

I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

“excellency”

Amos 6:8 Nahum 2:2 Amos 8:7 Isaiah 60:15 Psalm 16:3

Amos 6:8 · BSB

The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”

Nahum 2:2 · BSB

For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine.

Amos 8:7 · BSB

The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.

Isaiah 60:15 · BSB

Whereas you have been forsaken and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy from age to age.

Psalm 16:3 · BSB

As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.

“whom”

Hosea 14:4 Deuteronomy 7:6–8 Deuteronomy 33:3 Malachi 1:2 Ephesians 2:4 Ephesians 2:5

Hosea 14:4 · BSB

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

Deuteronomy 7:6–8 · BSB

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 possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 33:3 · BSB

Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—

Malachi 1:2 · BSB

“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,

Ephesians 2:4 · BSB

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

Ephesians 2:5 · BSB

made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3He subdues nations beneath us, and peoples under our feet.

5God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD with the sound of the horn.

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