Psalm 47:4
New International Version
He chose our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom he loved.

New Living Translation
He chose the Promised Land as our inheritance, the proud possession of Jacob’s descendants, whom he loves. Interlude

English Standard Version
He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah

Berean Standard Bible
He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah

King James Bible
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

New King James Version
He will choose our inheritance for us, The excellence of Jacob whom He loves. Selah

New American Standard Bible
He chooses our inheritance for us, The pride of Jacob whom He loves. Selah

NASB 1995
He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.

NASB 1977
He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.

Legacy Standard Bible
He chooses our inheritance for us, The pride of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.

Amplified Bible
He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory and excellence of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.

Christian Standard Bible
He chooses for us our inheritance — the pride of Jacob, whom he loves. Selah

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He chooses for us our inheritance— the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah

American Standard Version
He chooseth our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom he loved. [Selah

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He has chosen us for his inheritance and the honor of Jacob whom he loved.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He has chosen out his inheritance for us, the beauty of Jacob which he loved. Pause.

Contemporary English Version
and he chose for us the land that was the pride of Jacob, his favorite.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath chosen for us his inheritance the beauty of Jacob which he hath loved.

English Revised Version
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom he loved. [Selah]

Good News Translation
He chose for us the land where we live, the proud possession of his people, whom he loves.

International Standard Version
He chose our inheritance for us, even the pride of Jacob whom he loved. Interlude

JPS Tanakh 1917
He chooseth our inheritance for us, The pride of Jacob whom He loveth. Selah

Literal Standard Version
He chooses for us our inheritance, | The excellence of Jacob that He loves. Selah.

Majority Standard Bible
He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah

New American Bible
Who chose our heritage for us, the glory of Jacob, whom he loves. Selah

NET Bible
He picked out for us a special land to be a source of pride for Jacob, whom he loves. (Selah)

New Revised Standard Version
He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah

New Heart English Bible
He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

Webster's Bible Translation
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellence of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

World English Bible
He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

Young's Literal Translation
He doth choose for us our inheritance, The excellency of Jacob that He loves. Selah.

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Context
Clap Your Hands, All You Peoples
3He subdues nations beneath us, and peoples under our feet. 4He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah 5God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD with the sound of the horn.…

Cross References
1 Peter 1:4
and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,

Amos 6:8
The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself--the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: "I abhor Jacob's pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it."

Amos 8:7
The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: "I will never forget any of their deeds.

Nahum 2:2
For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine.


Treasury of Scripture

He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

choose

Deuteronomy 11:12
A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

Jeremiah 3:19
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

Ezekiel 20:6
In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:

excellency

Psalm 16:3
But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

Isaiah 60:15
Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

Amos 6:8
The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.

whom

Deuteronomy 7:6-8
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth…

Deuteronomy 33:3
Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.

Hosea 14:4
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

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Psalm 47
1. The nations are exhorted cheerfully to entertain the kingdom of Christ.














(4) The excellency of Jacob.--This phrase, which literally means the loftiness of Jacob, is used in Nahum 2:2 of the national glory, in Ezekiel 24:21 of the Temple, but in Amos 6:8 has a bad sense, "the pride of Jacob." Here, as the text stands, it is to be understood of the country. (Comp. Isaiah 13:19.)

Verse 4. - He shall choose our inheritance for us; rather, he chooseth, or hath chosen, our inheritance for us. God originally chose Canaan as the inheritance of his people (Genesis 12:1-7), and gave it to Abraham. Later on, he enlarged the gift, making the boundaries such as they became under David and Solomon (Genesis 15:18). The excellency of Jacob whom he loved. The Holy Land is called "the excellency of Jacob," or "the pride of Jacob," on account of its beauty, and the excellence and variety of its productions (see Deuteronomy 8:7-9; 2 Kings 18:22).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He chooses
יִבְחַר־ (yiḇ·ḥar-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 977: To try, select

our inheritance
נַחֲלָתֵ֑נוּ (na·ḥă·lā·ṯê·nū)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's 5159: Something inherited, occupancy, an heirloom, an estate, patrimony, portion

for us,
לָ֥נוּ (lā·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew

the pride
גְּא֨וֹן (gə·’ō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1347: Arrogance, majesty, ornament

of Jacob,
יַעֲקֹ֖ב (ya·‘ă·qōḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3290: Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc

whom
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

He loves.
אָהֵ֣ב (’ā·hêḇ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 157: To have affection f

Selah
סֶֽלָה׃ (se·lāh)
Interjection
Strong's 5542: Suspension, pause


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