Quotes About Identity

“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.”

The LORD will record in the register of the peoples: “This one was born in Zion.” Selah

O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

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

they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

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

May it be like a robe wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

There on the willows we hung our harps,

How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my motherís womb.

I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.

My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.

O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?