⁴ For the Lord has taken Jacob for himself, and Israel for his property.

¹⁵ But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day.

⁹ But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

¹⁴ Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

¹⁷ And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant.

⁶ For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

⁷ The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:

¹⁰ Ho, ho! go in flight from the land of the north, says the Lord: for I have sent you far and wide to the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.

¹¹ Ho! Zion, go in flight from danger, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.

¹² For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of glory he has sent me to the nations which have taken your goods: for anyone touching you is touching what is most dear to him.

²⁰ The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:

²¹ Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.

⁸ But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:

⁶ O you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.

¹² Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.

²² For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself.

⁹ For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.

⁵ If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:

⁶ And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.