Quotes About Community

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.

Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!

But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.

They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.

They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD—they and their descendants with them.

Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,

“Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.

Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”

Declare this in the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:

Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:

They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ëPeace, peace,í when there is no peace at all.

For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.

They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ëPeace, peace,í when there is no peace at all.

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.

“Listen to the words of this covenant and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.

Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.

And the LORD told me, “There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.

Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand.”

Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?