for not (A)by their own sword did they win the land,
    nor did their own arm save them,
but your right hand and your arm,
    and (B)the light of your face,
    (C)for you delighted in them.

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It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but (A)it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping (B)the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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17 Beware (A)lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ 18 You shall remember the Lord your God, for (B)it is he who gives you power to get wealth, (C)that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

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12 And I sent (A)the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was (B)not by your sword or by your bow.

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Treasure in Jars of Clay

But we have this treasure in (A)jars of clay, (B)to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

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15 You (A)with your arm redeemed your people,
    the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

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Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to (A)Zerubbabel: (B)Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.

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11 Why (A)do you hold back your hand, your right hand?
    Take it from the fold of your garment[a] and destroy them!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 74:11 Hebrew from your bosom

11 (A)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
    and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
    my salvation and my God.

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(A)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
    and why are you (B)in turmoil within me?
(C)Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
    my salvation[a]

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  1. Psalm 42:5 Hebrew the salvation of my face; also verse 11 and 43:5

Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed;
    he will answer him from his holy heaven
    with (A)the saving might of his right hand.

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(A)Wondrously show[a] your steadfast love,
    O Savior of those who seek refuge
    from (B)their adversaries at your right hand.

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  1. Psalm 17:7 Or Distinguish me by

There are many who say, “Who will show us some good?
    (A)Lift up (B)the light of your face upon us, O Lord!”

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22 (A)For the Lord will not forsake his people, (B)for his great name's sake, because (C)it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.

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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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37 And because (A)he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them[a] and brought you out of Egypt (B)with his own presence, by his great power, 38 (C)driving out before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,

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  1. Deuteronomy 4:37 Hebrew his offspring after him

If (A)the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, (B)a land that flows with milk and honey.

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16 Terror and (A)dread fall upon them;
    because of the greatness of your arm, they are still (B)as a stone,
till your people, O Lord, pass by,
    till the people pass by whom (C)you have purchased.

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10 And not only so, but (A)also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of (B)him who calls— 12 she was told, (C)“The older will serve the younger.” 13 As it is written, (D)“Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

14 What shall we say then? (E)Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! 15 For he says to Moses, (F)“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

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The Lord's Love for Israel

(A)“I have loved you,” says the Lord. (B)But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau (C)Jacob's brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet (D)I have loved Jacob but Esau I have hated. (E)I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”

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12 who caused his glorious arm
    to go at the right hand of Moses,
(A)who divided the waters before them
    (B)to make for himself an everlasting name,

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16 They have (A)burned it with fire; they have (B)cut it down;
    may they perish at (C)the rebuke of your face!

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