“For (A)you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be (B)a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

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For you are a people holy(A) to the Lord your God.(B) The Lord your God has chosen(C) you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.(D)

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15 Yet (A)the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.

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15 Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved(A) them, and he chose you,(B) their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today.(C)

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19 He declares his word to Jacob,
    his (A)statutes and rules[a] to Israel.
20 He (B)has not dealt thus with any other nation;
    they do not know his rules.[b]
(C)Praise the Lord!

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  1. Psalm 147:19 Or and just decrees
  2. Psalm 147:20 Or his just decrees

19 He has revealed his word(A) to Jacob,(B)
    his laws and decrees(C) to Israel.
20 He has done this for no other nation;(D)
    they do not know(E) his laws.[a]

Praise the Lord.(F)

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  1. Psalm 147:20 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint nation; / he has not made his laws known to them

(A)I know Ephraim,
    and Israel is not hidden from me;
for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore;
    Israel is defiled.

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I know all about Ephraim;
    Israel is not hidden(A) from me.
Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution;
    Israel is corrupt.(B)

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(A)It was I who knew you in the wilderness,
    in the land of drought;

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I cared for you in the wilderness,(A)
    in the land of burning heat.

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Therefore thus says the Lord:
behold, against (A)this family I am devising disaster,[a]
    from which you cannot remove your necks,
and you (B)shall not walk haughtily,
    (C)for it will be a time of disaster.

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  1. Micah 2:3 The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context

Therefore, the Lord says:

“I am planning disaster(A) against this people,
    from which you cannot save yourselves.
You will no longer walk proudly,(B)
    for it will be a time of calamity.

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