TSK · Psalms 74:2

By your loyal love you will lead the people whom you have redeemed; you will guide them by your strength to your holy dwelling place.

You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

They are your people, your valued property, whom you brought out with great strength and power.

Sing praises to the LORD, who rules in Zion! Tell the nations what he has done!

How blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.

Why do you look with envy, O mountains with many peaks, at the mountain where God has decided to live? Indeed the LORD will live there permanently!

He chose the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loves.

So the LORD was angry with his people and despised the people who belong to him.

Indeed, the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel to be his special possession.

I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the LORD, don’t be silent!

Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. The messenger sent from his very presence delivered them. In his love and mercy he protected them; he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times.

The LORD, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”

Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

They were singing a new song:“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.