Psalms 33:12

New Living Translation

What joy for the nation whose God is the Lord , whose people he has chosen as his inheritance.

Parallel Translations

English Revised Version
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

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

New Century Version
Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord , the people he chose for his very own.

New English Translation
How blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord , the people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.

Webster's Bible Translation
Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] the LORD; [and] the people [whom] he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

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

Amplified Bible
Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people whom He has chosen as His own inheritance.

English Standard Version
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord , the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Blessid is the folk, whose Lord is his God; the puple which he chees into eritage to hym silf.

Berean Standard Bible
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!

Contemporary English Version
The Lord blesses each nation that worships only him. He blesses his chosen ones.

American Standard Version
Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, The people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Bible in Basic English
Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.

Complete Jewish Bible
How blessed is the nation whose God is Adonai , the people he chose as his heritage!

Darby Translation
Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, the people that he hath chosen for his inheritance!

Easy-to-Read Version
Great blessings belong to those who have the Lord as their God! He chose them to be his own special people.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Happy is the nation whose God is the LORD; the people whom He hath chosen for His own inheritance.

King James Version (1611)
Blessed is the nation, whose God is the Lord: and the people, whom he hath chosen for his owne inheritance.

New Life Bible
Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord. Happy are the people He has chosen for His own.

New Revised Standard
Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord , the people whom he has chosen as his heritage.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Blessed is that nation, whose God is the Lord: euen the people that he hath chosen for his inheritance.

George Lamsa Translation
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

Good News Translation
Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord ; happy are the people he has chosen for his own!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How happy the nation whose God is, Yahweh, The people he hath chosen as his own inheritance!

Douay-Rheims Bible
(32-12) Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: the people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance.

Revised Standard Version
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Blessed is the nation that hath God to be their Lorde: that people hath he chosen to be an inheritaunce for him.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

Christian Standard Bible®
Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord—the people he has chosen to be his own possession!

Hebrew Names Version
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

King James Version
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord ; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Lexham English Bible
Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people he has chosen for his inheritance.

Literal Translation
Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, the people He has elected for His inheritance.

Young's Literal Translation
O the happiness of the nation whose God [is] Jehovah, Of the people He did choose, For an inheritance to Him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Blessed are the people that holde the LORDE for their God, & blessed are the folke whom he hath chosen to be his heretage.

New American Standard Bible
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people He has chosen for His own inheritance.

New King James Version
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord , The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.

Legacy Standard Bible
Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh,The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.

Contextual Overview

¹² What joy for the nation whose God is the Lord , whose people he has chosen as his inheritance. ¹³ The Lord looks down from heaven and sees the whole human race. ¹⁴ From his throne he observes all who live on the earth. ¹⁵ He made their hearts, so he understands everything they do. ¹⁶ The best-equipped army cannot save a king, nor is great strength enough to save a warrior. ¹⁷ Don't count on your warhorse to give you victory— for all its strength, it cannot save you. ¹⁸ But the Lord watches over those who fear him, those who rely on his unfailing love. ¹⁹ He rescues them from death and keeps them alive in times of famine. ²⁰ We put our hope in the Lord . He is our help and our shield. ²¹ In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Blessed: Psalms 144:15, Psalms 147:19, Psalms 147:20, Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Deuteronomy 33:29

people: Psalms 65:4, Psalms 135:4, Deuteronomy 7:6-8, John 15:16, Ephesians 1:4, 1 Peter 2:9

his own: Psalms 28:9, Jeremiah 10:16, Titus 2:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 34:9 - take us Leviticus 18:2 - General Deuteronomy 4:20 - a people 2 Chronicles 6:29 - what prayer Psalms 74:2 - thine Psalms 146:5 - Happy Isaiah 41:8 - thou Isaiah 43:20 - my chosen Isaiah 51:4 - O my Jeremiah 51:19 - the rod Ezekiel 20:5 - In the 1 Peter 5:3 - heritage

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] the Lord,.... Who have an interest in such a wonder working God, both in creation and in providence, and especially in grace: which, though it may have a principal regard to the nation of Israel, whose God he was in a very distinguishing manner, yet must not be limited to them; for he is the God of the Gentiles also: this nation is the chosen generation, the holy nation and peculiar people, both among Jews and Gentiles; and the Lord is the God of these; not only as the God of nature and providence, but as the God of all grace; who must be happy, since he is their portion and exceeding great reward; nor shall they want any good thing, nor need they fear any evil; they are on the heart of God, and cannot be separated from his love; they are engraven on the palms of his hands, and shall be helped, strengthened, and upheld with the right hand of his righteousness; all things work together for their good; and this God of theirs will be their God and guide unto death; they may expect every needful good thing now, and all glory and happiness hereafter;

[and] the people [whom] he hath chosen for his own inheritance; not Israel only, but the Gentiles also; not all mankind, but a peculiar people, whom the Lord has chosen out of the world to be his possession, and who are his jewels and peculiar treasure; these are happy, being the Lord's portion, and the lot of his inheritance; and he chooses an inheritance for them, adopts and begets them unto it, and makes them meet to be partakers of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Blessed is the nation - For the meaning of the word “blessed,” see the notes at Psalms 1:1. The idea here is, that the nation referred to is happy, or that its condition is desirable. What is true of a nation is also as true of an individual.

Whose God is the Lord - Whose God is Yahweh - for so this is in the original Hebrew. That is, the nation which worships Yahweh, and is under his protection. This is evidently said to distinguish such a nation from those which worshipped false gods or idols. Such a nation is blessed or happy, because:

(a) He is a real God, the true God, and not an imagination or fiction;

(b) because His laws are just and good, and their observance will always tend to promote the public welfare and prosperity;

(c) because His protection will be vouchsafed to such a nation; and

(d) because His worship, and the influence of His religion, will tend to diffuse virtue, intelligence, purity, and truth, over a land, and thus will promote its welfare.

And the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance - Chosen to be “His;” or, His portion. The primary reference here is undoubtedly to the Hebrew people, called his “inheritance:” Deuteronomy 4:20; Deuteronomy 9:26; Deuteronomy 32:9; Psalms 74:2; Psalms 78:62, Psalms 78:71; or “heritage,” Psalms 94:5; Jeremiah 12:7, Jeremiah 12:9; but what is here affirmed of that people is true also of all other people who worship the true God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 33:12. Blessed is the nation — O how happy is that nation which has יהוה Jehovah for its אלהים Elohim; the self-existent and eternal Lord for its covenant God; one who should unite himself to it by connections and ties the most powerful and endearing! The word אלהים Elohim, which we translate GOD, refers to that economy in which God is manifested in the flesh.

The people whom he hath chosen — The Jews, who were elected to be his heritage, whom he preserved as such for two thousand years, and whom he has reprobated because of their unbelief and rebellion, and elected the Gentiles in their place.