Psalms 147:20 Cross References - BBE

²⁰ He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.

⁷ For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer? ⁸ And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?

³² Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story. ³³ Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the heart of the fire as you did? ³⁴ Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?

¹⁸ Where there is no vision, the people are uncontrolled; but he who keeps the law will be happy.

¹ Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill: ² And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes. ³ And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden. ⁴ Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes? ⁵ And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it; ⁶ And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it. ⁷ For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

³³ Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country. ³⁴ And when the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit. ³⁵ And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another. ³⁶ Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them. ³⁷ But after that he sent his son to them, saying, They will have respect for my son. ³⁸ But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage. ³⁹ And they took him and, driving him out of the vine-garden, put him to death. ⁴⁰ When, then, the lord of the vine-garden comes, what will he do to those workmen? ⁴¹ They say to him, He will put those cruel men to a cruel death, and will let out the vine-garden to other workmen, who will give him the fruit when it is ready.

¹⁶ Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.

¹⁸ To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

²⁷ King Agrippa, have you faith in the prophets? I am certain that you have.

¹ How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision? ² Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.

¹² That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.

⁸ For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

⁹ But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven. ¹⁰ In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.