² You have been set apart as holy to the Lord your God, and he has chosen you from all the nations of the earth to be his own special treasure.

¹⁸ The Lord has declared today that you are his people, his own special treasure, just as he promised, and that you must obey all his commands.

¹⁷ “They will be my people,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “On the day when I act in judgment, they will be my own special treasure. I will spare them as a father spares an obedient child.