Quotes About Identity

So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ëI am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.í

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

For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.

Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I have called: I am He; I am the first, and I am the last.

Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.

He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel, in whom I will display My glory.”

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!

Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.

Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.

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”

This is what the LORD says: “Where is your motherís certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.

I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ëYou are My people.í”

Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”

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.

Their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the LORD has blessed.

You will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem in the palm of your God.

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.

For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.

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

But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.