Quotes About Community

And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.

Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!

He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.

Each one helps the other and says to his brother, “Be strong!”

The craftsman encourages the goldsmith, and he who wields the hammer cheers him who strikes the anvil, saying of the welding, “It is good.” He nails it down so it will not be toppled.

Let them give glory to the LORD and declare His praise in the islands.

The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.

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.”

who indeed call yourselves after the holy city and lean on the God of Israel; the LORD of Hosts is His name.

to say to the prisoners, ëCome out,í and to those in darkness, ëShow yourselves.í They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.

For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

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”

Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

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.”

Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”

And it will be said, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”

For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”

Isnít it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.

Lift up your eyes and look around: They all gather and come to you; your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will be carried on the arm.

No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.