New Revised Standard Version
Indeed, O favorite among peoples, all his holy ones were in your charge; they marched at your heels, accepted direction from you.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD loves the tribes of Israel, and he protects his people. They listen to his words and worship at his feet. *

New American Bible
Indeed, lover of the peoples, all the holy ones are at your side; They follow at your heels, carry out your decisions.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath loved the people, all the saints are in his hand: and they that approach to his feet, shall receive of his doctrine.

He hath loved the people, all the saints are in his hand: and they that approach to his feet, shall receive of his doctrine.

he loved

Deuteronomy 7:7,8 Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined unto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people: . . .

Exodus 19:5,6 If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine. . . .

Psalm 47:4 He hath chosen for us his inheritance, the beauty of Jacob which he hath loved.

Psalm 147:19,20 Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel. . . .

Jeremiah 31:3 The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on thee.

Hosea 11:1 As the morning passeth, so hath the king of Israel passed away. Because Israel was a child, and I loved him: and I called my son out of Egypt.

Malachi 1:2 I have loved you, saith the Lord: and you have said: Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob, saith the Lord, and I have loved Jacob,

Romans 9:11-13 For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil (that the purpose of God according to election might stand): . . .

Ephesians 2:4,5 But God (who is rich in mercy) for his exceeding charity wherewith he loved us . . .

1 John 4:19 Let us therefore love God: because God first hath loved us.

all his saints

Deuteronomy 7:6 Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth.

1 Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength.

Psalm 31:15 My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.

Psalm 50:5 Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.

Jeremiah 32:40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, and will not cease to do them good: and I will give my fear in their heart, that they may not revolt from me.

John 10:28,29 And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for ever. And no man shall pluck them out of my hand. . . .

John 17:11-15 And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou hast given me: that they may be one, as we also are. . . .

Romans 8:35-39 Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword? . . .

Colossians 3:3,4 For you are dead: and your life is hid with Christ in God. . . .

1 Peter 1:5 Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

they sat

Luke 2:46 And it came to pass, that, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them and asking them questions.

Luke 8:35 And they went out to see what was done. And they came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at his feet, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.

Luke 10:39 And she had a sister called Mary. who, sitting also at the Lord's feet, heard his word.

Acts 22:3 And he saith: I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the truth of the law of the fathers, zealous for the law, as also all you are this day:

shall receive

Proverbs 2:1 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence.

1 Thessalonians 1:6 And you became followers of us and of the Lord: receiving the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost: