Psalm 33:12-15

The Steadfast Love of the Lord

12 x Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has y chosen as his heritage!

13 The Lord z looks down from heaven;
he sees all the children of man;
 14 from a where he sits enthroned he b looks out
on all the inhabitants of the earth,
 15 he who fashions the hearts of them all
and observes all their deeds.

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 144:15
    Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!
    Deuteronomy 33:29
    Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their backs.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 65:4
    Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple!
    Deuteronomy 7:6
    For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
    Exodus 19:5
    Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.
  3. Cross References
    Job 28:24
    For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
    Psalms 11:4
    The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord 's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.
  4. Cross References
    1 Kings 8:39
    Then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways ( for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind).
    1 Kings 8:43
    Hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.
    1 Kings 8:49
    Then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause
  5. Cross References
    Proverbs 15:3
    The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
    Jeremiah 32:19
    Great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
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