Moreover, it is not as though the Word of God has fallen away. For not all those of Israel are Israel,

And He said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have persevered with God and with men, and have prevailed.

And Moses went up to God, and Jehovah called to him from the mountain, saying, Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:

Now therefore, if you will listen to obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.

For you are a holy people unto Jehovah your God; Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure out of all the peoples upon the face of the earth.

i1 [A Psalm of Asaph.] i0 par Truly God is good to Israel, to the pure of heart.

But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, My friend;

Listen to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who were carried by Me from the belly, who were sustained from the womb;

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit.

And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says Jehovah: Israel is My son, My firstborn.

You are the children of Jehovah your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

They shall come with weeping, and with supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a delightful child? For as often as I spoke against him, I call to mind and remember him still. Therefore My heart is stirred for him; I will have mercy and compassion upon him, says Jehovah.

When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and I called My Son out of Egypt.

And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; thus He spoke to him.

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory has departed from Israel! because the ark of God had been taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

And she said, The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been taken.

such that the priests were not able to stand to minister before the cloud; for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of Jehovah.

I have seen You in the sanctuary, to look upon Your power and Your glory.

and delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the enemy's hand.

Let Your work appear unto Your servants, and Your glory unto their children.

The sun shall no more be your light by day; nor the brightness of the moon give light to you; but Jehovah will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.

On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying: To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates;

and I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly abundantly.

And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations, for a perpetual covenant, to be God unto you and unto your seed after you.

This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your seed after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised;

And he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the ears of the people. And they said, All that Jehovah has spoken we will do and obey.

And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, This is the blood of the covenant which Jehovah has made with you according to all these words.

And Jehovah said to Moses, Write these words; according to these words at My mouth, I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.

These are the words of the covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He had made with them in Horeb.

And Jehovah said to Moses: Behold, you shall rest with your fathers; and this people will rise up and commit adultery with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they are going in to be among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

I have made a covenant with My elect, I have sworn unto David My servant:

My covenant I will not break, nor alter what has gone forth out of My lips.

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, says Jehovah, I will put My Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

Thus says Jehovah: If you can break My covenant of the day and My covenant of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season,

As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of David My servant and the Levites who serve Me.

Do you not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah has chosen, He has even cast them off? Thus they have despised My people, that they should no more be a nation before them.

You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your Seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.

Because finding fault with them, He says: Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant, and bring fulfillment to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah;

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will give My Laws into their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

Much in every way: chiefly because they were entrusted with the Words of God.

You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from the heavens, and gave them just ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments.

You made known to them Your holy Sabbath, and commanded them precepts, statutes and Laws, by the hand of Your servant Moses.

He declares His Word unto Jacob, His Statutes and His justice unto Israel.

And I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, which, if a man does, he shall even live by them.

Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah who sets them apart.

For the Law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

And it shall come to pass when you come to the land which Jehovah shall give you, just as He promised, that you shall keep this service.

And He fenced it, and cleared out its stones, and planted it with choice vines, and built a tower in its midst, and hewed out a winepress in it; and He looked for it to produce grapes, but it produced rotten grapes.

Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.

and behind the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time when things were set right.

He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy,

as He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed forever.

and raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,

Deliverance from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us,

the oath which He swore to our father Abraham:

in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.

You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your Seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

Having raised up His Son Jesus, God sent Him to you first, to bless you in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.

And we preach the gospel to you; the promise which was made to the fathers.

God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm: You are My Son, today I have begotten You.

that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, pledged it by an oath,