Psalm 44:3
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3 For (A)they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword,
Nor did their own arm save them;
But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance,
(B)Because You favored them.
Deuteronomy 7:7-8
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7 The Lord did not set His (A)love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were (B)the least of all peoples; 8 but (C)because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep (D)the oath which He swore to your fathers, (E)the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of [a]bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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- Deuteronomy 7:8 slavery
Deuteronomy 8:17-18
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17 then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’
18 “And you shall remember the Lord your God, (A)for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, (B)that He may [a]establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
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- Deuteronomy 8:18 confirm
Joshua 24:12
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12 (A)I sent the hornet before you which drove them out from before you, also the two kings of the Amorites, but (B)not with your sword or with your bow.
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2 Corinthians 4:7
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Cast Down but Unconquered
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, (A)that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
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Zechariah 4:6
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6 So he answered and 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.
Psalm 77:15
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15 You have with Your arm redeemed Your people,
The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
Psalm 20:6
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6 Now I know that the Lord saves His [a]anointed;
He will answer him from His holy heaven
With the saving strength of His right hand.
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- Psalm 20:6 Commissioned one, Heb. messiah
Deuteronomy 10:15
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15 The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their [a]descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.
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- Deuteronomy 10:15 Lit. seed
Deuteronomy 4:37-38
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37 And because (A)He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their [a]descendants after them; and (B)He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power, 38 (C)driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day.
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- Deuteronomy 4:37 Lit. seed
Psalm 42:11
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11 (A)Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The [a]help of my countenance and my God.
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- Psalm 42:11 Lit. salvation
Psalm 42:5
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5 (A)Why are you [a]cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
(B)Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
[b]For the help of His countenance.
Footnotes
- Psalm 42:5 Lit. bowed down
- Psalm 42:5 So with MT, Tg.; a few Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Vg. The help of my countenance, my God
1 Samuel 12:22
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22 For (A)the Lord will not forsake (B)His people, (C)for His great name’s sake, because (D)it has pleased the Lord to make you His people.
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Exodus 15:16
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16 (A)Fear and dread will fall on them;
By the greatness of Your arm
They will be (B)as still as a stone,
Till Your people pass over, O Lord,
Till the people pass over
(C)Whom You have purchased.
Romans 9:10-15
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10 And not only this, but when (A)Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac 11 (for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of (B)Him who calls), 12 it was said to her, (C)“The older shall serve the younger.” 13 As it is written, (D)“Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
Israel’s Rejection and God’s Justice
14 What shall we say then? (E)Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! 15 For He says to Moses, (F)“I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”
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Psalm 74:11
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11 (A)Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?
Take it out of Your bosom and destroy them.
Psalm 17:7
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7 Show Your marvelous lovingkindness by Your right hand,
O You who [a]save those who trust in You
From those who rise up against them.
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- Psalm 17:7 deliver
Psalm 4:6
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6 There are many who say,
“Who will show us any good?”
(A)Lord, lift up the light of Your countenance upon us.
Numbers 14:8
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8 If the Lord (A)delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, (B)‘a land which flows with milk and honey.’
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Malachi 1:2-3
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Israel Beloved of God
2 “I(A) have loved you,” says the Lord.
“Yet you say, ‘In what way have You loved us?’
Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?”
Says the Lord.
“Yet (B)Jacob I have loved;
3 But Esau I have hated,
And (C)laid waste his mountains and his heritage
For the jackals of the wilderness.”
Isaiah 63:12
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12 Who led them by the right hand of Moses,
(A)With His glorious arm,
(B)Dividing the water before them
To make for Himself an everlasting name,
Psalm 80:16
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16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down;
(A)They perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
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