Yet 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.

耶和华但喜悦你的列祖，爱他们，从万民中拣选他们的后裔，就是你们，像今日一样。

然而，耶和华专爱你的列祖，爱他们，从万民中拣选你们，就是他们的后裔，像今日一样。

然而，耶和华专爱你的列祖，爱他们，从万民中拣选你们，就是他们的后裔，像今日一样。

但耶和华只喜爱你们的祖先，从万族中拣选了他们的后裔——你们，正如今日的情形。

但耶和华只喜悦你的列祖，爱他们；他从万民中拣选了他们的后裔，就是你们，像今日一样。

耶和華但喜悅你的列祖，愛他們，從萬民中揀選他們的後裔，就是你們，像今日一樣。

然而，耶和華專愛你的列祖，愛他們，從萬民中揀選你們，就是他們的後裔，像今日一樣。

然而，耶和華專愛你的列祖，愛他們，從萬民中揀選你們，就是他們的後裔，像今日一樣。

但耶和華只喜愛你們的祖先，從萬族中揀選了他們的後裔——你們，正如今日的情形。

但耶和華只喜悅你的列祖，愛他們；他從萬民中揀選了他們的後裔，就是你們，像今日一樣。

然而永恆主卻只傾心於你列祖而愛他們；他從萬族之民中揀選了你們做他們以後的苗裔、像今日一樣。

惟耶和華悅爾祖而愛之、於萬民中、選其苗裔即爾、有如今日、

惟耶和華眷愛爾祖、特於天下億兆中、遴選其裔、以為己民、即以今日之事為證。

雖然、主惟悅爾祖寵愛之、於萬民中特選其後裔、即爾曹、有如今日之事、

Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations— as it is today.

But the Lord loved your people of long ago very much. You are their children. And he chose you above all the other nations. His love and his promise remain with you to this very day.

Yet the Lord chose your ancestors as the objects of his love. And he chose you, their descendants, above all other nations, as is evident today.

Yet the LORD had his heart set on your ancestors and loved them. He chose their descendants after them— he chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.

Yet the Lord set His affection on your fathers, to love them, and He chose their descendants after them, you over all the other peoples, as it is this day.

The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.

Only Jehovah had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.

Yet the Lord was devoted to your fathers and loved them. He chose their descendants after them— He chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.

Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them,[ even] you above all people, as[ it is] this day.

However, only to your ancestors did he show his loving favor, and he chose you, their descendants, from all peoples– as is apparent today.

Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,

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

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 it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping 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.

As it is written,“ Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means!For he says to Moses,“ I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.For the Scripture says to Pharaoh,“ For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.You will say to me then,“ Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder,“ Why have you made me like this?”Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—