Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionKnow ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.GKnow that YHWH — He is Elohim! He made us, and we are His own; His people and the flock of His pasture.
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G MessageKnow this and know it well: Yahweh alone is God. He made us — we belong to Him; we are His people, the flock He tends with care.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleKnow that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
Footnotes
This verse carries the most significant textual variant in the psalm. The phrase v'lo anachnu hinges on spelling: the ketiv (written text) reads וְלֹא — 'and not we ourselves [made us],' a repudiation of human autonomy and self-creation. The qere (the reading tradition) is וְלוֹ — 'and to Him we belong,' an affirmation of covenantal possession. Both are grammatically valid and theologically potent; modern critical editions generally follow the qere. F.O.G. renders 'we are His own' to capture the covenantal belonging of the qere while the 'He made us' clause implicitly absorbs the ketiv logic. F.O.G.M. explores the relational dimension — 'we belong to Him' — leaning into the shepherd-flock typology that runs from Ps. 23 forward to John 10.
