Psalm 33:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; And the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His heritage.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, The people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Common English Bible

¹² The nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom God has chosen as his possession, is truly happy!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Come forward, sons. Listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Psalm 33:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 20:19

I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel; you seek to destroy a city which is a mother in Israel; why will you swallow up the heritage of the Lord?”

Psalm 135:4

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

Psalm 144:15

Happy the people to whom such blessings fall! Happy the people whose God is the Lord!

Psalm 28:9

O save thy people, and bless thy heritage; be thou their shepherd, and carry them for ever.

Psalm 65:4

Blessed is he whom thou dost choose and bring near, to dwell in thy courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, thy holy temple!

Exodus 34:9

And he said, “If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us, although it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thy inheritance.”

Isaiah 41:10

fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.

Jeremiah 10:16

Not like these is he who is 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.

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Ephesians 1:4

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.

Deuteronomy 32:9

For the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.

Deuteronomy 33:29

Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you; and you shall tread upon their high places.”

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to 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, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.