For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel for his own possession.
you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,
The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he formed all things, including the tribe of his inheritance. The LORD of Hosts is his name.
They shall be mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “my own possession in the day that I make. I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.
The LORD has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.
For the LORD’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself.