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Psalm 47:4
He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
2For the LORD Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.
3He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.
4He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
5God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
6Sing praises to God! Sing praises! Sing praises to our King! Sing praises!
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An inheritance chosen by God can raise questions about control, while Jacob’s name roots that choice in God’s love for a particular people.
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1 Peter 1:4to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,Both speak of an inheritance: the psalm celebrates God’s choice for his people, and Peter describes an unfading inheritance reserved in Heaven.
Amos 6:8“The Lord GOD has sworn by himself,” says the LORD, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the …Both name Jacob in relation to God: the psalm speaks of love, while Amos declares judgment against Jacob’s pride.
Nahum 2:2For the LORD restores the excellency of Jacob as the excellency of Israel, for the destroyers have destroyed them and ruined their vine branches.Jacob’s glory in the psalm connects with Jacob’s excellency in Nahum, where the LORD restores what destroyers have ruined.
Amos 8:7The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.Both name Jacob, with the psalm celebrating God’s choice and Amos recording God’s oath to remember their works.
1 John 4:9–10By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might live through him.God’s love appears in both passages, expressed toward Jacob in the psalm and revealed through sending his Son in John.
Hosea 14:4“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from them.Both speak of God’s love for his people; Hosea also promises healing for their waywardness and an end to his anger.
Genesis 35:1God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”Both name Jacob as someone God deals with: choosing an inheritance in the psalm and directing him to Bethel in Genesis.
Deuteronomy 33:3Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.God’s love for Jacob in the psalm shares a thread with Deuteronomy’s declaration that he loves the people.
Jeremiah 3:19“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall …Both describe a heritage God gives his people, linking that gift with his love or desire to make them his children.
Isaiah 60:15“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.The psalm celebrates the glory God chooses for Jacob; Isaiah promises enduring excellency and joy to those once forsaken and hated.
Deuteronomy 7:6–8For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face …God chooses in both passages: an inheritance for his people in the psalm, and a people for his own possession in Deuteronomy.
Ephesians 2:4–5But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,Both passages speak of God’s love toward his people, with Ephesians also describing him as rich in mercy.
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You need not turn this song into a forecast for every decision. Its confidence rests here: the God who chooses Israel’s inheritance is the God who loved Jacob.
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