Quotes About Nations

And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”

And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.

And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.

But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.

The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.

Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.

And the LORD said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the people among whom you live will see the LORDís work, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you.

Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.

Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.

So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.

You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.

But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.

But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”

If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.