Men bless the people to whom this lot belongs, [but] blessed are the people whose God is the Lord.

He sends His word to Jacob, His ordinances and judgments to Israel.

He has not done so to any [other] nation; and He has not shown them His judgments.

And now if you will indeed hear My voice, and keep My covenant, you shall be to Me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is Mine.

And you shall be to Me a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words shall you speak to the children of Israel.

Blessed [are] you, O Israel; who [is] like you, O people saved by the Lord? Your helper shall hold His shield over you, and [His] sword [is] your boast; and your enemies shall speak falsely to you, and you shall tread upon their neck.

Blessed [is he] whom You have chosen and adopted; he shall dwell in Your courts; we shall be filled with the good things of Your house; Your temple is holy.

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself, [and] Israel for His peculiar treasure.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; and the Lord your God chose you to be to Him a peculiar people beyond all nations that [are] upon the face of the earth.

But because the Lord has loved you, and He is keeping the oath which He swore to your fathers; the Lord has brought you out with a strong hand, and the Lord has redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you may ask the Father in My name He may give to you.

just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him in love,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's [own] possession, that you may proclaim the excellent virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Save Your people, and bless Your inheritance; and take care of them, and lift them up forever.

Such is not the portion of Jacob; for He that formed all things, He is his inheritance; the Lord is His name.

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself a people as [His] own possession, zealous for good works.