⁴ For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.

¹⁵ Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

¹⁴ 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.

¹⁷ They shall be mine," says Yahweh of Hosts, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

⁶ For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

⁷ Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:

¹⁰ Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,' says Yahweh.

¹¹ Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Hosts has sent me to you.

¹² Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

²⁰ The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

²¹ the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.

⁸ But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

⁶ You seed of Abraham, his servant, You children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

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

²² For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.

⁹ For Yahweh's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

⁵ Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

⁶ and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."