Quotes About Identity

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; justice was my robe and my turban.

A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.

And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.

I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.

But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

From birth I was cast upon You; from my motherís womb You have been my God.

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—it is written about me in the scroll:

You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,

Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.

Moab is My washbasin; upon Edom I toss My sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.

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

I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:

I have said, ëYou are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.í

saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”