Quotes About People

Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!

And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.

For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.

Like cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name.

For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,

Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, for My people who seek Me.

But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.

I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her.

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

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;

“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.

Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?

“I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.

“Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.

“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.

Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”

For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.

which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ëObey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.í

And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ëAs surely as the LORD livesí—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.

“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.