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.
He brought me out into a broad place; he rescued me, because he delighted in me.
You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.
And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
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.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man, but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.
“He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”
Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the Lord loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness.”
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.
Then the king said to Zadok, “Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his dwelling place. But if he says, ‘I have no pleasure in you,’ behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him.”
and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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