6 For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God.+ It is you Jehovah your God has chosen to become his people, a special property, out of all the peoples that are on the surface of the ground.+

2 For you are a holy people+ to Jehovah your God, and Jehovah has chosen you to become his people, a special property,+ out of all the peoples who are on the surface of the ground.

9 With weeping they will come,+ and with [their] entreaties for favor I shall bring them. I shall make them walk to torrent valleys of water,+ in a right way in which they will not be caused to stumble. For I have become to Israel a Father;+ and as for Eʹphra·im, he is my firstborn.”+

11 “When Israel was a boy,* then I loved him,+ and out of Egypt I called my son.+

4 who, as such, are Israelites,+ to whom belong the adoption as sons+ and the glory+ and the covenants+ and the giving of the Law+ and the sacred service*+ and the promises;+