Quotes About Identity

And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Now I will restore Jacob from captivity and will have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.

When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them out of the lands of their enemies, I will show My holiness in them in the sight of many nations.

Then they will know that I am the LORD their God, when I regather them to their own land, not leaving any of them behind after their exile among the nations.

They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but must carefully trim their hair.

In regard to their inheritance, I am their inheritance. You are to give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession.

On the south side it will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, and along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea. This will be the southern boundary.

Among these young men were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

The chief official gave them new names: To Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.

Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

So Daniel was brought before the king, who asked him, “Are you Daniel, one of the exiles my father the king brought from Judah?

After she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, Gomer conceived and gave birth to a son.

And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.

Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ëYou are not My people,í they will be called ësons of the living God.í

“Say of your brothers, ëMy people,í and of your sisters, ëMy loved one.í

Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

In that day,” declares the LORD, “you will call Me ëmy Husband,í and no longer call Me ëmy Master.í

And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ëNo Compassion.í I will say to those called ëNot My People,í ëYou are My people,í and they will say, ëYou are my God.í”

Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake.

Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.

Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.

In the womb he grasped his brotherís heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.

Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?