Psalm 135:4 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

⁴ For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, And Israel for his peculiar treasure.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ For the Lord has chosen [the descendants of] Jacob for Himself, Israel for His peculiar possession and treasure. [Deut. 7:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ For Jehovah hath chosen Jacob unto himself, And Israel for his own possession.

Common English Bible

⁴ Because the LORD chose Jacob as his own, God chose Israel as his treasured possession.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ He alone performs great miracles, for his mercy is eternal.

Psalm 135:4 Cross References

Psalm 105:6

O offspring of his servant Abraham, children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

Psalm 33:12

Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage.

Isaiah 41:8

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;

Jeremiah 51:19

Not like these is the Lord, the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the Lord of hosts is his name.

Malachi 3:17

They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their children who serve them.

Deuteronomy 10:15

yet the Lord set his heart in love on your ancestors alone and chose you, their descendants after them, out of all the peoples, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 26:18

Today the Lord has obtained your agreement: to be his treasured people, as he promised you, and to keep his commandments;

Deuteronomy 32:9

the Lord's own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share.

Titus 2:14

He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Samuel 12:22

For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.