Quotes About Identity

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëBecause Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”

Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.

“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ëI am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.í Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you regard your heart as the heart of a god,

Will you still say, ëI am a god,í in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.

Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD. For you were only a staff of reeds to the house of Israel.

In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth to speak among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!

“Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ëAbraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.í

therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,

I will no longer allow the taunts of the nations to be heard against you, and you will no longer endure the reproach of the peoples or cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD.”

I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered throughout the lands. I judged them according to their ways and deeds.

And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ëThese are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.í

But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they had gone.

I will show the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when I show My holiness in you before their eyes.

For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.

Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ëOur bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.í

“And you, son of man, take a single stick and write on it: ëBelonging to Judah and to the Israelites associated with him.í Then take another stick and write on it: ëBelonging to Joseph—the stick of Ephraim—and to all the house of Israel associated with him.í

Then join them together into one stick, so that they become one in your hand.

I will magnify and sanctify Myself, and will reveal Myself in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

So I will make My holy name known among My people Israel and will no longer allow it to be profaned. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.