Quotes About People

And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.

“Tell us now,” they demanded, “who is to blame for this calamity that is upon us? What is your occupation, and where have you come from? What is your country, and who are your people?”

So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”

For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.

In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ëWe are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.í”

But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.

If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!

Hear, O mountains, the LORDís indictment, you enduring foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against His people, and He will argue it against Israel:

Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.

“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.

This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.

From beyond the rivers of Cush My worshipers, My scattered people, will bring Me an offering.

But I will leave within you a meek and humble people, and they will trust in the name of the LORD.

Then Haggai replied, “So it is with this people and this nation before Me, declares the LORD, and so it is with every work of their hands; whatever they offer there is defiled.

“On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the west.

I will bring them back to dwell in Jerusalem, where they will be My people, and I will be their faithful and righteous God.”

On that day the LORD their God will save them as the flock of His people; for like jewels in a crown they will sparkle over His land.

For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”

The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.

People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.