Quotes About Belonging

I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my motherís sons,

Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she places her young near Your altars, O LORD of Hosts, my King and my God.

“I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me—along with Philistia, Tyre, and Cush—when I say, ëThis one was born in Zion.í”

And it will be said of Zion: “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High Himself will establish her.”

Know 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.

When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,

He causes the hungry to settle there, that they may establish a city in which to dwell.

“This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.

My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.

Now this is what the LORD says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!

One will say, ëI belong to the LORD,í another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and still another will write on his hand, ëThe LORDís,í and will take the name of Israel.”

Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ëThis place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.í

Then you will say in your heart, ëWho has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?í”

Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”

I will give them, in My house and within My walls, a memorial and a name better than that of sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.

We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.

They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.

But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.