Quotes About Nations

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylonís thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”

How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.

Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.

Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

The LORDís anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”

This is what the Lord GOD says: ëThis is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.í

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ëYou have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.í

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ëBehold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.

So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.

Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”

Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ëAlthough I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.í

And they will know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.

But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

Your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect in the splendor I bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.

When the nations heard of him, he was trapped in their pit. With hooks they led him away to the land of Egypt.

Then the nations set out against him from the provinces on every side. They spread their net over him; he was trapped in their pit.

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.