Quotes About Nation

Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.

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

that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.

For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.

The Lord has sent a message against Jacob, and it has fallen upon Israel.

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”

which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.

Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter—one that remains faithful.

You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; You have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for Yourself; You have extended all the borders of the land.

Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.

Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory on you.”

For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly destroyed.

The least of you will become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; in its time I will accomplish it quickly.

“I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. To a nation that did not call My name, I said, ëHere I am! Here I am!í

Who has heard of such as this? Who has seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be delivered in an instant? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children.

Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

Then I said, ëHow I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!í I thought you would call Me ëFatherí and never turn away from following Me.

Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?