Quotes About Nation

This is what the LORD says: “Behold, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is stirred up from the ends of the earth.

Therefore you must say to them, ëThis is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.

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

But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”

But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,

and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potterís jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.

Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officials, his leaders, and all his people;

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold! Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a mighty storm is rising from the ends of the earth.”

As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.

But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.”

Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?

“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israelís descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”

“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ëThe LORD has rejected the two families He had chosení? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.

Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.

Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, one that dwells securely,” declares the LORD. “They have no gates or bars; they live alone.

For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.”

Behold, an army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the ends of the earth.

You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

“Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: Because people say to you, ëYou devour men and deprive your nation of its children,í

therefore you will no longer devour men or deprive your nation of its children, declares the Lord GOD.

I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over all of them. Then they will no longer be two nations and will never again be divided into two kingdoms.