Psalms 135:4

World English Bible (2000)

For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 10:15 : 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.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 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:
  • Deut 7:6-7 : 6 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. 7 Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
  • Mal 3:17 : 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.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."
  • Deut 32:9 : 9 For Yahweh's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
  • 1 Sam 12:22 : 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.
  • Ps 33:12 : 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
  • Ps 105:6 : 6 you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
  • Isa 41:8 : 8 "But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,
  • Isa 43:20-21 : 20 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, 21 the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.
  • Zech 2:10-12 : 10 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,' says Yahweh. 11 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 shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. 12 Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 14:2
    81%

    2For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

  • Isa 44:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.

    2This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: "Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

  • Ps 47:4
    80%

    4He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

  • Ps 132:13-14
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    80%

    13For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

    14"This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it.

  • Deut 32:9
    80%

    9For Yahweh's portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

  • Ps 33:12
    79%

    12Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

  • 1 Chr 16:13
    79%

    13you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

  • Deut 7:6-7
    2 verses
    79%

    6For 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.

    7Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:

  • Isa 14:1
    78%

    1For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.

  • Ps 105:6
    77%

    6you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

  • Jer 10:16
    76%

    16The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

  • Jer 51:19
    76%

    19The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

  • Deut 10:15
    76%

    15Only 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.

  • Isa 45:4
    76%

    4For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.

  • 1 Chr 17:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?

    22For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

  • Exod 19:5
    75%

    5Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

  • Zech 2:12
    74%

    12Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

  • Ps 135:5
    74%

    5For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods.

  • Deut 18:5
    74%

    5For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever.

  • 2 Chr 6:6
    74%

    6but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'

  • 1 Chr 28:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

    5Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh's kingdom over Israel.

  • Isa 41:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8"But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

    9You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, 'You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;'

  • Ps 114:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;

    2Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

  • Isa 43:21
    73%

    21the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.

  • Ps 78:68
    73%

    68But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

  • Deut 4:20
    73%

    20But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

  • Ps 135:3
    73%

    3Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good. Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant.

  • Isa 34:17
    73%

    17He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever. From generation to generation they will dwell in it.

  • Deut 4:37
    72%

    37Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

  • Ps 78:70
    72%

    70He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

  • 1 Kgs 8:53
    72%

    53For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Lord Yahweh."

  • 1 Kgs 8:16
    72%

    16'Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.'

  • Jer 31:11
    72%

    11For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.

  • Deut 26:18
    72%

    18and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;

  • Ps 106:5
    72%

    5that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.

  • Isa 49:7
    72%

    7Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."

  • 1 Chr 16:17
    71%

    17He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

  • Ps 105:43
    71%

    43He brought forth his people with joy, his chosen with singing.

  • Jer 2:4
    71%

    4Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!

  • 2 Sam 7:24
    71%

    24You established for yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

  • Ezek 20:5
    71%

    5and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when I chose Israel, and swore to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am Yahweh your God;

  • Ps 135:12
    71%

    12and gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel, his people.

  • 1 Pet 2:9
    71%

    9But 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: