Quotes About People

Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?

And the LORD heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.

The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.”

Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.

for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.

And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,

that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.

On that day Moses commanded the people:

Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.

and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

But the LORDís portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.

They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all Godís angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.

Then Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—

And concerning Judah he said: “O LORD, hear the cry of Judah and bring him to his people. With his own hands he defends his cause, but may You be a help against his foes.”

They will call the peoples to a mountain; there they will offer sacrifices of righteousness. For they will feast on the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand.”