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2 Samuel 7:24

Contemporary English Version 1995

You have chosen Israel to be your people forever, and you have become their God.

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Since you have agreed to obey the Lord, he has agreed that you will be his people and that you will belong to him, just as he promised.

“Once you were nobody. Now you are God's people. At one time no one had mercy on you. Now God has treated you with kindness.”

Yet some people accepted him and put their faith in him. So he gave them the right to be the children of God.

Here is the new agreement that I, the Lord, will make with the people of Israel: “I will write my laws on their hearts and minds. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

I trust you to save me, Lord God, and I won't be afraid. My power and my strength come from you, and you have saved me.”

“Our God is like this forever and will always guide us.”

I will always keep the promise I have made to you and your descendants, because I am your God and their God.

Then I will purify them and put them to the test, just as gold and silver are purified and tested. They will pray in my name, and I will answer them. I will say, “You are my people,” and they will reply, “You, Lord, are our God!”

Someday it will be impossible to count the people of Israel, because there will be as many of them as there are grains of sand along the seashore. They are now called “Not My People,” but in the future they will be called “Children of the Living God.”

They will be my people, and I will be their God.

The Lord said: Israel, I promise that someday all your tribes will again be my people, and I will be your God.

You have chosen Israel to be your people forever, and you have become their God.

And there is no other nation on earth like Israel, the nation you rescued from slavery in Egypt to be your own. You became famous by using great and wonderful miracles to force other nations and their gods out of your land, so your people could live here.

Moses stood together with the priests and said, “Israel, be quiet and listen to me! Today you have become the people of the Lord your God.

The Lord is my strength, the reason for my song, because he has saved me. I praise and honor the Lord— he is my God and the God of my ancestors.

I will accept you as my people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I was the one who rescued you from the Egyptians.

I will give you and them the land in which you are now a foreigner. I will give the whole land of Canaan to your family forever, and I will be their God.

Israel, the Lord is your Father, the one who created you, but you repaid him by being foolish.

And now, Lord God, please do what you have promised me and my descendants.




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