Gen 25:23 – And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger."
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Ex 19:6 – and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel."
Ex 33:13 – Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people."
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Deut 4:7 – For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
Deut 4:8 – And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
Deut 26:5 – "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Deut 32:28 – "For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
Josh 3:17 – Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.
Josh 4:1 – When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,
Josh 5:6 – For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Josh 5:8 – When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.
Josh 10:13 – And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies.Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.
Judg 2:20 – So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
Ps 33:12 – Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
Ps 106:5 – that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
Judah
Isa 1:4 – Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
Isa 9:3 – You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Jer 5:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jer 5:29 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"
Jer 7:28 – And you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
Jer 9:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jer 25:11 – This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Jer 25:13 – I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
Jer 31:36 – "If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the LORD, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever."
Jer 33:24 – "Have you not observed that these people are saying, 'The LORD has rejected the two clans that he chose'? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.
Ezek 2:3 – And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.
Ezek 35:10 – "Because you said, 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them'–although the LORD was there–
Ezek 36:13 – Thus says the Lord GOD: Because they say to you, 'You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,'
Ezek 36:14 – therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 36:15 – And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 37:22 – And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
Zeph 2:1 – Gather together, yes, gather, O shameless nation,
Zeph 2:9 – Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."
Mal 3:9 – You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.
Babylon
Jer 5:15 – Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
Jer 6:22 – Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Joel 1:6 – For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
Persia
Jer 50:3 – "For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.
Jer 50:9 – For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
Jer 50:41 – "Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Sons of Moses
Ex 32:10 – Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
Num 14:12 – I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Deut 9:14 – Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
Goiim
Gen 14:1 – In the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
Gen 14:9 – with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five.
Josh 12:23 – the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Galilee, one;
Egypt
Gen 15:14 – But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Ex 9:24 – There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Lam 4:17 – Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.
Sons of Ishmael
Gen 21:13 – And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."
Gen 21:18 – Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
Sons of Ham
Gen 10:20 – These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
Sons of Shem
Gen 10:31 – These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
Negeb
Gen 20:4 – Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, "Lord, will you kill an innocent people?
Syrians
2 Kgs 6:18 – And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
Moab
Jer 48:2 – the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.
Assyria
Amos 6:14 – "For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," declares the LORD, the God of hosts; "and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."
Cherethites
Zeph 2:5 – Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.
Relationship between God and nation
God owns the nations
Ex 19:6 – and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel."
Ex 33:13 – Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people."
Deut 4:38 – driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,
Deut 26:19 – and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
Deut 32:8 – When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Josh 23:4 – Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
2 Chr 20:6 – and said, "O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.
Ps 2:8 – Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
Ps 22:28 – For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
Ps 33:12 – Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
Ps 78:55 – He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Ps 79:1 – O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Ps 82:8 – Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Ps 106:5 – that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
Ps 111:6 – He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the inheritance of the nations.
Isa 60:16 – You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Jer 3:19 – "'I said How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
Jer 51:20 – "You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;
Ezek 28:25 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.
God controls the future of the nations
Gen 15:14 – But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Gen 25:23 – And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger."
Gen 48:19 – But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."
Num 24:20 – Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, "Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction."
Deut 4:27 – And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
Deut 7:22 – The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
Deut 8:20 – Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Deut 9:4 – "Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.
Jer 4:7 – A lion has gone up from his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.
Jer 6:18 – Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
Jer 22:8 – "'And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?"
Jer 27:13 – Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jer 28:11 – And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, "Thus says the LORD: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within two years." But Jeremiah the prophet went his way.
Jer 28:14 – For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.'"
Jer 46:1 – The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Ezek 4:13 – And the LORD said, "Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them."
Ezek 25:10 – I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,
Ezek 36:3 – therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people,
Ezek 36:4 – therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around,
Dan 8:22 – As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation, but not with his power.
Dan 11:23 – And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully, and he shall become strong with a small people.
God gives and takes authority and glory
Gen 17:20 – As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
Gen 21:13 – And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."
Gen 21:18 – Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
Gen 46:3 – Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.
Ex 32:10 – Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
Num 14:12 – I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Deut 7:17 – "If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?'
Deut 8:20 – Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Job 12:23 – He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
Ps 22:28 – For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
Ps 33:10 – The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
Isa 41:2 – Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
Isa 45:1 – Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:
Jer 49:15 – For behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among mankind.
Lam 4:20 – The breath of our nostrils, the LORD's anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the nations."
Obad 1:2 – Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised.
God rules over the nations
1 Chr 16:31 – Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!"
2 Chr 20:6 – and said, "O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.
Ps 22:28 – For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
Ps 44:2 – you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free;
Ps 47:8 – God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
Ps 59:5 – You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah
Ps 66:7 – who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations–let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
Ps 94:10 – He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge–
What nations ought to do
Listen to God’s words
Gen 22:18 – and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Deut 7:22 – The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
Deut 8:20 – Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Deut 9:1 – "Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven,
Deut 12:30 – take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?–that I also may do the same.'
Deut 20:15 – Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Josh 5:6 – For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Judg 2:20 – So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
2 Kgs 21:9 – But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.
Isa 34:1 – Draw near, O nations, to hear, and give attention, O peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it.
Jer 6:18 – Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
Jer 7:28 – And you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
Jer 12:17 – But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD."
Jer 31:10 – "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.'
Ezek 36:4 – therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around,
Hos 9:17 – My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Mic 5:15 – And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.
Be holy
Ex 19:6 – and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel."
Lev 18:24 – "Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
Lev 18:28 – lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Lev 20:23 – And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.
Num 23:9 – For from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I behold him; behold, a people dwelling alone, and not counting itself among the nations!
Deut 12:2 – You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Deut 12:30 – take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?–that I also may do the same.'
Deut 17:14 – "When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,'
Deut 18:9 – "When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
Deut 18:14 – for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.
Deut 26:19 – and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
2 Sam 8:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,
1 Chr 18:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines and Amalek.
Prov 14:34 – Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
Isa 66:20 – And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.
Jer 1:5 – "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Ezek 20:41 – As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 36:23 – And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Obey and worship God
1 Chr 16:31 – Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!"
Ps 22:27 – All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
Ps 33:12 – Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
Ps 46:10 – "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"
Ps 72:11 – May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!
Ps 79:10 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
Ps 86:9 – All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.
Ps 102:15 – Nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.
Isa 2:2 – It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
Isa 64:2 – as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil–to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
Praise God
Deut 26:5 – "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Ps 18:49 – For this I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing to your name.
Ps 96:3 – Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
Ps 117:1 – Praise the LORD, all nations! Extol him, all peoples!
Ps 147:20 – He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!
Historical actions of the nations
The chosen nation
Follow the gentiles
Deut 17:14 – "When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,'
1 Sam 8:5 – and said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations."
1 Sam 8:20 – that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles."
1 Kgs 14:24 – and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Kgs 16:3 – but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Kgs 17:8 – and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced.
2 Kgs 17:11 – and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger,
2 Kgs 17:15 – They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
2 Kgs 21:2 – And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Chr 28:3 – and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Chr 33:2 – And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Chr 36:14 – All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem.
Ps 106:35 – but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did.
Jer 9:26 – Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart."
Jer 10:2 – Thus says the LORD: "Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them,
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Ezek 20:32 – "What is in your mind shall never happen–the thought, 'Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.'
Ezek 23:30 – have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
Disobey God, transgress the commandments
Deut 8:20 – Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Josh 5:6 – For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Judg 2:20 – So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
2 Kgs 17:15 – They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
Neh 5:8 – and said to them, "We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!" They were silent and could not find a word to say.
Isa 58:2 – Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
Jer 7:28 – And you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
Ezek 2:3 – And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.
Ezek 5:6 – And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.
Ezek 5:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Hos 9:17 – My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Hab 1:5 – "Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.
Hag 2:14 – Then Haggai answered and said, "So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the LORD, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.
Mal 1:14 – Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.
Mal 3:9 – You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.
Worship idols
1 Kgs 14:24 – and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Kgs 16:3 – but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Kgs 17:11 – and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger,
2 Kgs 17:15 – They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
2 Kgs 17:41 – So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children–as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
2 Chr 28:3 – and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Chr 36:14 – All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem.
Jer 2:11 – Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Jer 44:8 – Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?
Ezek 6:9 – then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
Ezek 22:4 – You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.
Ezek 20:32 – "What is in your mind shall never happen–the thought, 'Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.'
Ezek 23:30 – have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
Sin
2 Chr 36:14 – All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem.
Neh 13:26 – Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.
Isa 1:4 – Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
Jer 5:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jer 5:29 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"
Jer 9:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Ezek 22:4 – You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.
Ezek 31:11 – I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.
Ezek 39:23 – And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.
Forsake God
Isa 1:4 – Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Jer 2:11 – Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Jer 3:19 – "'I said How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
Jer 18:13 – "Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations, Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing.
Ezek 12:16 – But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the LORD."
Worship God
2 Sam 8:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,
2 Sam 22:50 – "For this I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to your name.
2 Chr 32:23 – And many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from that time onward.
Ezra 6:21 – It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by everyone who had joined them and separated himself from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.
Neh 5:9 – So I said, "The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
Executes judgement and mercy according to the law
Lev 25:44 – As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.
Neh 5:17 – Moreover, there were at my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.
Neh 5:8 – and said to them, "We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!" They were silent and could not find a word to say.
Unchosen nations
Attack and blaspheme against God’s kingdom
Num 14:15 – Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,
Neh 6:6 – In it was written, "It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king.
Ps 2:1 – Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Ps 44:14 – You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Ps 79:1 – O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Ps 79:10 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
Ps 83:4 – They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!"
Ps 106:41 – he gave them into the hand of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them.
Ps 115:2 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isa 29:7 – And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
Isa 29:8 – As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
Jer 4:16 – Warn the nations that he is coming; announce to Jerusalem, "Besiegers come from a distant land; they shout against the cities of Judah.
Jer 5:15 – Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
Jer 10:25 – Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 33:24 – "Have you not observed that these people are saying, 'The LORD has rejected the two clans that he chose'? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.
Jer 36:2 – "Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.
Ezek 36:3 – therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people,
Ezek 36:4 – therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around,
Ezek 36:5 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
Ezek 36:6 – Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.
Ezek 36:13 – Thus says the Lord GOD: Because they say to you, 'You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,'
Ezek 36:15 – And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 38:16 – You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Joel 1:6 – For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
Amos 6:14 – "For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," declares the LORD, the God of hosts; "and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."
Mic 4:11 – Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion."
Zech 1:15 – And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.
Zech 1:21 – And I said, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it."
Zech 2:8 – For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
Zech 12:3 – On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.
Zech 12:9 – And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zech 14:2 – For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Be violent, proud and treacherous
Deut 28:50 – a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.
2 Kgs 18:33 – Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Kgs 19:12 – Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
2 Chr 32:13 – Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand?
2 Chr 32:14 – Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?
2 Chr 32:15 – Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'"
Neh 6:6 – In it was written, "It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king.
Ps 9:15 – The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid their own foot has been caught.
Ps 43:1 – Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!
Ps 59:5 – You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah
Ps 79:10 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
Isa 14:18 – All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;
Isa 16:8 – For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea.
Isa 18:2 – which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
Isa 18:7 – At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide,to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of hosts.
Isa 23:3 – And on many waters your revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; you were the merchant of the nations.
Isa 60:5 – Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
Ezek 7:24 – I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned.
Ezek 32:12 – I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. "They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.
Hos 8:10 – Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute.
Hab 1:6 – For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.
Hab 1:17 – Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?
Hab 2:5 – "Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples."
Hab 2:8 – Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.
War against one another
Gen 14:9 – with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five.
2 Kgs 19:12 – Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
2 Chr 15:6 – They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.
2 Chr 32:14 – Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?
Isa 10:7 – But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few;
Isa 14:12 – "How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
Isa 16:8 – For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea.
Isa 37:12 – Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
Jer 49:14 – I have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: "Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!
Jer 50:3 – "For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.
Jer 50:9 – For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
Jer 51:27 – "Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.
Jer 51:28 – Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.
Jer 51:41 – "How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
Ezek 19:4 – The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
Ezek 19:8 – Then the nations set against him from provinces on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
Ezek 25:10 – I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,
Ezek 26:3 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Ezek 30:11 – He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
Ezek 38:12 – to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.
Obad 1:1 – The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom:We have heard a report from the Lord,and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!"
Worship idols
Lev 18:24 – "Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
Deut 12:2 – You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Deut 12:30 – take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?–that I also may do the same.'
Deut 18:9 – "When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
Deut 18:14 – for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.
Josh 23:7 – that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,
2 Kgs 17:41 – So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children–as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
Ps 135:15 – The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
Isa 45:20 – "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.
Jer 14:22 – Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O LORD our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.
Jer 50:2 – "Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: 'Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'
Ezek 20:32 – "What is in your mind shall never happen–the thought, 'Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.'
Disobey and oppose God
Ps 2:1 – Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Ps 79:1 – O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Ps 79:6 – Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name!
Ps 79:10 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
Ps 115:2 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"
Ezek 36:20 – But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.'
Hos 9:17 – My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Mic 5:15 – And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.
Commit wickedness
Deut 9:4 – "Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Jer 51:7 – Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations went mad.
Nah 3:4 – And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whorings, and peoples with her charms.
Do not know God
2 Kgs 17:26 – So the king of Assyria was told, "The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land."
The end of nations
Negative
Be destroyed by God
Deut 31:3 – The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken.
Josh 5:6 – For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
2 Kgs 17:26 – So the king of Assyria was told, "The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land."
2 Kgs 21:9 – But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.
2 Chr 33:9 – Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.
Job 12:23 – He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
Ps 9:5 – You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
Ps 10:16 – The LORD is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land.
Ps 118:10 – All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
Ps 135:10 – who struck down many nations and killed mighty kings,
Isa 30:28 – his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.
Isa 34:2 – For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
Isa 60:12 – For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
Jer 9:16 – I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them."
Jer 10:25 – Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Jer 12:17 – But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD."
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 27:8 – "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 46:28 – Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
Jer 51:20 – "You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;
Ezek 25:7 – therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 32:12 – I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. "They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.
Zeph 2:5 – Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.
Zeph 2:9 – Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."
Zeph 3:6 – "I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Hag 2:22 – and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his brother.
Zech 7:14 – "and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."
Zech 9:10 – I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Zech 12:9 – And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Be punished by God
Gen 15:14 – But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Ex 32:10 – Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
Num 14:12 – I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Lev 26:33 – And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Lev 26:38 – And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
Num 14:12 – I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Deut 4:27 – And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
2 Chr 15:6 – They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.
Ps 149:7 – to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isa 34:2 – For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
Jer 12:17 – But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD."
Ezek 5:8 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 5:14 – Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
Ezek 5:15 – You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes–I am the LORD, I have spoken–
Ezek 36:5 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
Ezek 36:6 – Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.
Ezek 36:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.
Ezek 36:19 – I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
Hos 8:10 – Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute.
Hos 9:17 – My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Joel 3:2 – I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
Joel 3:8 – I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken."
Joel 3:12 – Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Obad 1:1 – The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom:We have heard a report from the Lord,and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!"
Zech 14:18 – And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
Zech 14:19 – This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
Suffer shame
Ps 9:5 – You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
Ps 9:20 – Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah
Ps 33:10 – The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
Ps 59:8 – But you, O LORD, laugh at them; you hold all the nations in derision.
Isa 29:8 – As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
Isa 60:12 – For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
Jer 46:12 – The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; they have both fallen together."
Jer 50:23 – How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
Jer 50:46 – At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations."
Lam 1:1 – How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave.
Lam 4:15 – "Away! Unclean!" people cried at them. "Away! Away! Do not touch!" So they became fugitives and wanderers; people said among the nations, "They shall stay with us no longer."
Ezek 29:15 – It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.
Ezek 31:11 – I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.
Ezek 31:12 – Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it.
Ezek 32:9 – "I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known.
Ezek 36:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.
Hos 8:8 – Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.
Joel 3:8 – I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken."
Obad 1:2 – Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised.
Obad 1:16 – For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been.
Nah 3:5 – Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will make nations look at your nakedness and kingdoms at your shame.
Provoke God’s wrath and detested by God
Ex 32:10 – Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
Lev 20:23 – And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.
Isa 34:2 – For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
Jer 10:25 – Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Ezek 5:15 – You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes–I am the LORD, I have spoken–
Ezek 36:5 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
Ezek 36:6 – Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Return to Sheol
Ps 9:17 – The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.
Isa 14:9 – Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.
Isa 14:12 – "How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
Isa 14:18 – All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;
Ezek 31:16 – I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the world below.
Ezek 31:17 – They also went down to Sheol with it, to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were its arm, who lived under its shadow among the nations.
Ezek 32:18 – "Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:
Receive God’s vengeance
Deut 32:43 – "Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land."
Ps 149:7 – to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,
Jer 27:7 – All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
Obad 1:15 – For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
Mic 5:15 – And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.
Can not receive rest
Lam 1:3 – Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations, but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
Positive
Receive salvation
Ps 33:12 – Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
Ps 72:17 – May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Isa 26:2 – Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
Receive honor
Isa 60:22 – The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the LORD; in its time I will hasten it.
God’s characteristics
Awesome, may be provoked to anger
Ex 32:10 – Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Deut 4:34 – Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deut 29:24 – all the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?'
Deut 32:21 – They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Judg 2:20 – So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
2 Sam 7:23 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?
2 Kgs 17:11 – and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger,
2 Kgs 17:33 – So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
2 Kgs 17:41 – So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children–as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
1 Chr 17:21 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?
Neh 5:9 – So I said, "The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
Neh 6:16 – And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.
Job 34:29 – When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?–
Ps 9:20 – Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah
Ps 46:6 – The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
Ps 79:6 – Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name!
Ps 102:15 – Nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isa 14:6 – that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.
Isa 25:3 – Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
Isa 33:3 – At the tumultuous noise peoples flee; when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered,
Isa 34:2 – For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
Isa 64:2 – as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil–to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
Jer 10:7 – Who would not fear you, O King of the nations? For this is your due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like you.
Jer 10:10 – But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Jer 10:25 – Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Jer 25:15 – Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
Jer 44:8 – Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?
Ezek 5:15 – You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes–I am the LORD, I have spoken–
Ezek 36:5 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
Ezek 36:6 – Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.
Mic 5:15 – And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.
Hab 3:12 – You marched through the earth in fury; you threshed the nations in anger.
Zeph 2:11 – The LORD will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Zech 1:15 – And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.
Mal 1:14 – Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.
Holy
1 Chr 16:35 – Say also: "Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.
Ps 47:8 – God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
Ps 79:1 – O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Ps 106:47 – Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.
Isa 55:5 – Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
Ezek 28:25 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.
Ezek 36:23 – And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 38:16 – You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 36:20 – But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.'
Ezek 36:21 – But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.
Ezek 36:22 – "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.
Ezek 36:23 – And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 37:28 – Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."
Ezek 38:16 – You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 38:23 – So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 39:7 – "And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
Obad 1:16 – For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been.
Eternal
1 Kgs 18:10 – As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, 'He is not here,' he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.
Ps 9:5 – You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
Ps 10:16 – The LORD is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land.
Ps 66:7 – who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations–let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
Ps 72:17 – May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Jer 10:10 – But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Ezek 37:28 – Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."
Mic 4:7 – and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.
Zeph 2:9 – Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."
Noble
1 Chr 16:24 – Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
Ps 46:10 – "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"
Ps 47:8 – God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
Ps 86:9 – All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.
Ps 96:3 – Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
Ps 113:4 – The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens!
Isa 40:15 – Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.
Isa 40:17 – All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
Jer 10:7 – Who would not fear you, O King of the nations? For this is your due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like you.
Mal 1:11 – For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.
Good
Faithful and keeps His covenant
Gen 17:4 – "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Lev 26:45 – But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, 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."
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deut 26:19 – and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Deut 28:12 – The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Jer 25:13 – I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
Jer 25:14 – For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
Jer 31:36 – "If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the LORD, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever."
Just/Righteous
Ps 96:10 – Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity."
Ps 98:2 – The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
Isa 41:2 – Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
Isa 42:1 – Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
Isa 42:6 – "I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,
Isa 61:11 – For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.
Isa 62:2 – The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Holy
Ex 19:6 – and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel."
Lev 18:24 – "Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
Lev 18:28 – lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Lev 20:23 – And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.
Deut 12:2 – You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Deut 32:43 – "Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land."
Almighty
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
2 Chr 20:6 – and said, "O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.
All knowing
Isa 66:18 – "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Jer 1:5 – "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
True
Jer 10:10 – But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Promises given by God
The promise of establishing a great nation
Genealogy
Abraham
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 17:4 – "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
Gen 17:5 – No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Gen 17:6 – I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 22:18 – and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Sarah
Gen 17:16 – I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."
Isaac
Gen 26:4 – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Jacob
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Gen 46:3 – Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.
David
2 Sam 22:44 – "You delivered me from strife with my people; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Ps 18:43 – You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Land/Inheritance
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 26:4 – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Deut 4:38 – driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,
Deut 7:1 – "When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,
Deut 11:23 – then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Deut 12:29 – "When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,
Deut 19:1 – "When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
Deut 31:3 – The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken.
Josh 23:4 – Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
Ps 2:8 – Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
Ps 82:8 – Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Ps 105:44 – And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' toil,
Ps 111:6 – He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the inheritance of the nations.
Isa 26:15 – But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Isa 54:3 – For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your offspring will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities.
Isa 26:15 – But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Jer 3:19 – "'I said How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
Amos 9:12 – that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name," declares the LORD who does this.
Blessings
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 17:16 – I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 22:18 – and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
Gen 26:4 – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Deut 15:6 – For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deut 28:12 – The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Deut 28:12 – The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Ps 72:17 – May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Ps 106:5 – that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
Isa 9:3 – You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
Isa 25:7 – And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
Isa 61:9 – Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the LORD has blessed.
Jer 31:7 – For thus says the LORD: "Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, 'O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.'
Jer 33:9 – And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.
Ezek 36:14 – therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 36:15 – And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 36:30 – I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.
Mal 3:12 – Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD of hosts.
Honor
Gen 17:6 – I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
Gen 17:16 – I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Deut 26:5 – "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Ps 18:43 – You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Isa 2:2 – It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
Isa 9:1 – But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Isa 26:15 – But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Isa 60:3 – And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Isa 60:5 – Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
Isa 60:11 – Your gates shall be open continually; day and night they shall not be shut, that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations, with their kings led in procession.
Isa 60:16 – You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isa 60:22 – The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the LORD; in its time I will hasten it.
Isa 61:6 – but you shall be called the priests of the LORD; they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast.
Isa 62:2 – The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.
Population
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 17:4 – "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
Gen 17:6 – I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
Gen 17:16 – I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 26:4 – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Gen 46:3 – Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.
Isa 2:2 – It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
Isa 9:3 – You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
Isa 26:15 – But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Isa 60:3 – And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Isa 60:16 – You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isa 60:22 – The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the LORD; in its time I will hasten it.
Isa 61:9 – Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the LORD has blessed.
A great name
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Deut 26:19 – and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
Ps 72:17 – May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Isa 61:9 – Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the LORD has blessed.
Isa 62:2 – The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.
Isa 64:2 – as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil–to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
Jer 33:9 – And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.
Ezek 16:14 – And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.
Mal 1:11 – For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.
Mal 1:14 – Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.
The promise of God’s judgment
Ps 9:19 – Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you!
Isa 2:4 – He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Isa 5:26 – He will raise a signal for nations afar off, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
Isa 29:7 – And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
Isa 29:8 – As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
Isa 30:28 – his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.
Isa 34:2 – For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
Jer 5:15 – Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
Jer 6:18 – Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
Jer 12:17 – But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD."
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 25:11 – This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Jer 25:13 – I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
Jer 25:14 – For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
Jer 25:31 – The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.'
Jer 25:32 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, disaster is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!
Jer 26:6 – then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'"
Jer 27:7 – All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
Jer 27:8 – "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
Jer 29:18 – I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,
Jer 48:2 – the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.
Jer 50:9 – For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
Jer 50:12 – your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Behold, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Jer 51:44 – And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.
Ezek 4:13 – And the LORD said, "Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them."
Ezek 5:8 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 5:14 – Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
Ezek 5:15 – You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes–I am the LORD, I have spoken–
Ezek 7:24 – I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned.
Ezek 22:16 – And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 23:30 – have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
Ezek 25:7 – therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 25:8 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Moab and Seir said, 'Behold, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,'
Ezek 25:10 – I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,
Ezek 26:3 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Ezek 26:5 – She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. And she shall become plunder for the nations,
Ezek 28:7 – therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.
Ezek 29:12 – And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 29:15 – It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.
Ezek 30:3 – For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
Ezek 30:11 – He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
Ezek 30:23 – I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 30:26 – And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 31:11 – I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.
Ezek 32:9 – "I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known.
Ezek 32:12 – I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. "They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.
Ezek 32:16 – This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 36:6 – Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.
Ezek 36:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.
Ezek 36:15 – And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
The promise of God’s comfort and salvation
Deut 32:43 – "Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land."
2 Sam 7:23 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?
2 Kgs 18:33 – Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Kgs 19:12 – Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
1 Chr 16:35 – Say also: "Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.
1 Chr 17:21 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?
2 Chr 32:13 – Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand?
2 Chr 32:14 – Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?
2 Chr 32:15 – Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'"
2 Chr 32:17 – And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the LORD, the God of Israel and to speak against him, saying, "Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand."
Ps 67:2 – that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.
Ps 98:2 – The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
Ps 106:47 – Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.
Isa 9:1 – But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Isa 14:32 – What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."
Isa 36:18 – Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you by saying, "The LORD will deliver us." Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Isa 37:12 – Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
Isa 49:6 – he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."
Isa 60:16 – You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 31:7 – For thus says the LORD: "Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, 'O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.'
Ezek 6:8 – "Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,
Ezek 11:16 – Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.'
Ezek 12:16 – But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 36:15 – And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."
Dan 12:1 – "At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.
Joel 2:19 – The LORD answered and said to his people, "Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
Zech 8:13 – And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong."
The promise that men will know God
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Ps 67:2 – that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.
Isa 65:1 – I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I," to a nation that was not called by my name.
Isa 66:18 – "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Ezek 12:15 – And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.
Ezek 12:16 – But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 22:16 – And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 25:7 – therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 30:26 – And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 36:21 – But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.
Ezek 36:22 – "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.
Ezek 36:23 – And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 36:36 – Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the LORD; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.
Ezek 37:28 – Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."
Ezek 38:23 – So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 39:7 – "And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
Ezek 39:23 – And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.
Ezek 39:28 – Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.
Zech 2:11 – And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
The promise that all nations will come to God
Deut 32:43 – "Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land."
Ps 22:27 – All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
Ps 46:10 – "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"
Ps 67:2 – that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.
Ps 72:11 – May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!
Ps 86:9 – All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.
Ps 102:15 – Nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.
Isa 2:2 – It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
Isa 5:26 – He will raise a signal for nations afar off, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
Isa 11:10 – In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples–of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.
Isa 18:7 – At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide,to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of hosts.
Isa 25:3 – Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
Isa 25:7 – And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
Isa 26:15 – But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Isa 52:15 – so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.
Isa 55:5 – Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
Isa 60:3 – And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Isa 60:5 – Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
Isa 60:11 – Your gates shall be open continually; day and night they shall not be shut, that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations, with their kings led in procession.
Isa 60:12 – For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
Isa 60:16 – You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isa 65:1 – I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I," to a nation that was not called by my name.
Isa 66:18 – "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Isa 66:20 – And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.
Jer 3:17 – At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.
Jer 3:19 – "'I said How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Jer 16:19 – O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
Jer 31:10 – "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.'
Mic 4:2 – and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Mic 4:7 – and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.
Mic 7:16 – The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;
Hag 2:7 – And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.
Zech 8:22 – Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD.
Zech 8:23 – Thus says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"
Zech 14:16 – Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.
Mal 1:11 – For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.
The promise that God’s kingdom will receive glory
1 Chr 16:24 – Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
Ps 86:9 – All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.
Isa 11:10 – In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples–of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.
Isa 25:3 – Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
Isa 26:15 – But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Isa 55:5 – Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
Isa 60:5 – Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
Isa 61:6 – but you shall be called the priests of the LORD; they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast.
Isa 62:2 – The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.
Isa 66:8 – Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children.
Isa 66:12 – For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees.
Isa 66:18 – "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Jer 33:9 – And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Ezek 39:23 – And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.
Hag 2:7 – And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.
The promise of peace
Ex 34:24 – For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Deut 4:27 – And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
Deut 7:22 – The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
Deut 8:20 – Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Deut 11:23 – then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Deut 15:6 – For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deut 26:19 – and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Deut 28:12 – The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Isa 66:12 – For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees.
Ezek 34:28 – They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them. They shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
Ezek 34:29 – And I will provide for them renowned plantations so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations.
The promise of return
Isa 9:1 – But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Isa 11:12 – He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isa 14:32 – What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."
Isa 49:6 – he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."
Isa 66:20 – And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.
Jer 29:14 – I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Ezek 28:25 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.
Ezek 36:24 – I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
Ezek 37:21 – then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land.
Ezek 39:28 – Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.
The promise of victory
Deut 7:22 – The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
Deut 11:23 – then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Deut 15:6 – For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deut 31:3 – The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken.
2 Sam 22:44 – "You delivered me from strife with my people; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Ps 18:43 – You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Ps 118:10 – All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
Mic 5:8 – And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
The promise of raising a mediator
Isa 41:2 – Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
Isa 42:1 – Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
Isa 42:6 – "I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,
Isa 45:1 – Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:
Isa 49:6 – he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."
Isa 52:15 – so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.
Isa 55:5 – Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
The promise of mercy
Jer 18:8 – and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.
Jer 27:11 – But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the LORD."'"
Jer 29:14 – I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Ezek 6:8 – "Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,
Ezek 6:9 – then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
Ezek 20:41 – As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 22:15 – I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you.
The promise of blessing the unchosen nations
Gen 17:20 – As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
Gen 21:13 – And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."
Gen 21:18 – Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
Gen 48:19 – But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."
The promise of the repentance of the chosen people
Ezek 6:9 – then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
Joel 2:17 – Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, "Spare your people, O LORD, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"
The promise of exercising righteousness
Deut 32:43 – "Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land."
The promise of cleansing
Deut 32:43 – "Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people's land."
The actions God takes towards the nations
Warn
Lev 18:24 – "Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
Lev 18:28 – lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Lev 20:23 – And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.
Lev 26:33 – And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Lev 26:38 – And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Deut 4:27 – And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
Deut 7:22 – The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
Deut 8:20 – Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Deut 9:4 – "Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deut 12:30 – take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?–that I also may do the same.'
Deut 28:36 – "The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
Deut 28:49 – The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,
Deut 28:65 – And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.
Deut 29:18 – Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,
Deut 29:24 – all the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?'
Deut 30:1 – "And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,
Josh 23:7 – that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,
Josh 23:12 – For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
Josh 23:13 – know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the LORD your God has given you.
1 Kgs 11:2 – from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, "You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love.
2 Kgs 17:15 – They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
Establishe
A signal
Isa 5:26 – He will raise a signal for nations afar off, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
Isa 11:10 – In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples–of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.
Isa 11:12 – He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Jer 50:2 – "Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: 'Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'
Jer 51:27 – "Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.
A covenant
Gen 17:4 – "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Lev 26:45 – But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, 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."
2 Kgs 17:15 – They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
People
Gen 17:5 – No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Neh 13:26 – Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.
Jer 1:10 – See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
Nations
Gen 17:6 – I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
Gen 21:13 – And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."
Jer 18:9 – And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,
God’s mountain
Isa 2:2 – It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
Isa 14:32 – What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."
Borders
Deut 32:8 – When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
God’s name
Jer 3:17 – At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.
Bring attacks and wars
Lev 26:33 – And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Deut 28:49 – The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,
Josh 23:3 – And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.
Ps 110:6 – He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.
Ps 135:10 – who struck down many nations and killed mighty kings,
Isa 5:26 – He will raise a signal for nations afar off, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isa 13:4 – The sound of a tumult is on the mountains as of a great multitude! The sound of an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle.
Isa 34:2 – For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
Jer 5:15 – Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 25:31 – The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.'
Jer 27:8 – "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
Jer 36:2 – "Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.
Jer 48:2 – the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.
Jer 49:14 – I have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: "Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!
Jer 49:31 – "Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, that dwells securely, declares the LORD, that has no gates or bars, that dwells alone.
Jer 49:36 – And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven. And I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come.
Jer 50:3 – "For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.
Jer 50:9 – For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
Jer 51:20 – "You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;
Jer 51:28 – Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.
Ezek 7:24 – I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned.
Ezek 25:7 – therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 25:10 – I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,
Ezek 26:3 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Ezek 26:5 – She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. And she shall become plunder for the nations,
Ezek 28:7 – therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.
Ezek 30:11 – He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
Ezek 32:12 – I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. "They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.
Ezek 38:12 – to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.
Ezek 38:16 – You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 39:23 – And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.
Joel 3:9 – Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up.
Joel 3:11 – Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD.
Amos 6:14 – "For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," declares the LORD, the God of hosts; "and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."
Obad 1:1 – The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom:We have heard a report from the Lord,and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!"
Zech 14:3 – Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.
Scatter
Lev 26:33 – And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Deut 4:27 – And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
Deut 28:36 – "The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
Deut 30:1 – "And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,
Ps 44:11 – You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations.
Ps 106:27 – and would make their offspring fall among the nations, scattering them among the lands.
Jer 9:16 – I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them."
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 31:10 – "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.'
Jer 49:36 – And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven. And I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come.
Lam 2:9 – Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
Ezek 6:8 – "Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,
Ezek 11:16 – Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.'
Ezek 12:15 – And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.
Ezek 20:23 – Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,
Ezek 20:41 – As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 22:15 – I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you.
Ezek 28:25 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.
Ezek 29:12 – And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 30:23 – I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 30:26 – And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 36:19 – I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
Amos 9:9 – "For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
Hab 3:6 – He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.
Zech 1:21 – And I said, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it."
Zech 7:14 – "and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."
Gather
Isa 5:26 – He will raise a signal for nations afar off, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
Isa 11:12 – He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isa 13:4 – The sound of a tumult is on the mountains as of a great multitude! The sound of an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle.
Isa 45:20 – "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.
Isa 66:18 – "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Jer 3:17 – At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.
Jer 29:14 – I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Jer 31:10 – "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, 'He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.'
Jer 49:14 – I have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: "Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!
Ezek 20:41 – As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 28:25 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.
Ezek 36:24 – I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
Ezek 37:21 – then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land.
Ezek 38:12 – to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.
Ezek 39:28 – Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.
Hos 8:10 – Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute.
Joel 3:2 – I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
Joel 3:11 – Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD.
Zeph 2:1 – Gather together, yes, gather, O shameless nation,
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Zech 14:2 – For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Lead
Lev 26:45 – But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, 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."
Num 24:8 – God brings him out of Egypt and is for him like the horns of the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows.
Deut 4:34 – Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deut 4:38 – driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,
Deut 7:1 – "When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,
Deut 9:4 – "Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.
1 Chr 16:20 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
Ps 80:8 – You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
Ps 105:13 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
Ezek 5:5 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
Ezek 20:9 – But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
Ezek 20:14 – But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
Ezek 20:22 – But I withheld my hand and acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
Ezek 20:41 – As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 36:24 – I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
Ezek 37:21 – then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land.
Bring the chosen people victory and glory
Josh 10:13 – And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies.Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.
Josh 23:3 – And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.
Josh 23:9 – For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.
2 Sam 7:23 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?
1 Kgs 4:31 – For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.
1 Chr 14:17 – And the fame of David went out into all lands, and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.
1 Chr 17:21 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?
2 Chr 32:23 – And many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from that time onward.
Ps 44:2 – you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free;
Ps 78:55 – He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Ps 111:6 – He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the inheritance of the nations.
Ps 118:10 – All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
Ps 126:2 – Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."
Ps 147:20 – He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!
Punish the chosen people
Josh 5:6 – For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Judg 2:21 – I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,
Judg 2:23 – So the LORD left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
Ps 44:11 – You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations.
Ps 44:14 – You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Amos 6:14 – "For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," declares the LORD, the God of hosts; "and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."
Amos 9:9 – "For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
Bless
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 17:20 – As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
Gen 26:4 – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Deut 15:6 – For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Ps 72:17 – May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Ezek 16:14 – And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.
Abide
Deut 4:7 – For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 46:28 – Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
Zech 2:11 – And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
Zech 8:23 – Thus says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"
Create
Deut 26:19 – and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
Ps 86:9 – All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.
Jer 1:5 – "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Jer 14:22 – Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O LORD our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.
Commend
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Judg 2:20 – So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Lam 1:10 – The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; for she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation.
Listen to prayers
Deut 4:7 – For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
2 Kgs 6:18 – And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
Test
Deut 4:34 – Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Judg 3:1 – Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.
Ex 19:6 – and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel."
They, הֵם
Deut 32:28 – "For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
These, אֵהֶל
Judg 3:1 – Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.
He, הוּא
Jer 5:15 – Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
This, זֶה
Jer 7:28 – And you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
Whole, כֹּל
Ezek 32:12 – I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. "They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.
Verbs with "Nation" (גֹּוי) as Subject
Know, דָּעָה
2 Kgs 17:26 – So the king of Assyria was told, "The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land."
Ps 9:20 – Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah
Ezek 36:23 – And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 36:36 – Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the LORD; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.
Ezek 37:28 – Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."
Ezek 38:16 – You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 39:7 – "And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
Ezek 39:23 – And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.
Be, הָיָה
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
2 Kgs 17:29 – But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived.
2 Kgs 17:41 – So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children–as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
Jer 33:24 – "Have you not observed that these people are saying, 'The LORD has rejected the two clans that he chose'? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.
Jer 49:36 – And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven. And I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come.
Dan 12:1 – "At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.
Work, serve, עָבַד
Deut 12:2 – You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Deut 12:30 – take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?–that I also may do the same.'
Ps 72:11 – May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!
Jer 25:11 – This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jer 25:14 – For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
Jer 27:7 – All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
Come, בֹּוא
Ps 79:1 – O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Ps 86:9 – All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.
Isa 26:2 – Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
Jer 16:19 – O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
Lam 1:10 – The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; for she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation.
Zech 8:22 – Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD.
Bless, בָּרַךְ
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 22:18 – and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
Gen 26:4 – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Jer 4:2 – and if you swear, 'As the LORD lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Say, אָמַר
Num 14:15 – Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,
Deut 29:24 – all the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?'
Ps 79:10 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
Ps 115:2 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"
Be complete, תָּמַם
Josh 3:17 – Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.
Josh 4:1 – When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,
Josh 5:6 – For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Josh 5:8 – When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.
See, רָאָה
Neh 6:16 – And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.
Isa 62:2 – The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Mic 7:16 – The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;
Hear, שָׁמַע
Deut 18:14 – for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.
Jer 46:12 – The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; they have both fallen together."
Ezek 19:4 – The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
Ascend, עָלָה
Jer 50:3 – "For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.
Joel 1:6 – For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.
Joel 3:12 – Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Pass over, עָבַר
Judg 2:20 – So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
Jer 22:8 – "'And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?"
Perish, אָבַד
Ps 10:16 – The LORD is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land.
Isa 60:12 – For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
Be happy, אָשַׁר
Ps 72:17 – May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Mal 3:12 – Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD of hosts.
Flow, נָהַר
Isa 2:2 – It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
Jer 51:44 – And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.
Lift, נָשָׂא
Isa 2:4 – He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Walk, הָלַךְ
Isa 60:3 – And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Mic 4:2 – and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Be awake, עוּר
Jer 6:22 – Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Jer 50:41 – "Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Drink, שָׁתָה
Jer 51:7 – Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations went mad.
Obad 1:16 – For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been.
Gather, אָסַף
Mic 4:11 – Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion."
Zech 12:3 – On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.
Divide, פָּרַד
Gen 10:32 – These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.
Be unclean, טָמֵא
Lev 18:24 – "Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
Avenge, נָקַם
Josh 10:13 – And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.
Be able, יָכֹל
2 Chr 32:15 – Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'"
Be in turmoil, רָגַשׁ
Ps 2:1 – Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
Sink, טָבַע
Ps 9:15 – The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid their own foot has been caught.
Judge, שָׁפַט
Ps 9:19 – Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you!
Make noise, הָמָה
Ps 46:6 – The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
Fear, יָרֵא
Ps 102:15 – Nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.
Turn, סָבַב
Ps 118:10 – All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
Inquire, דַּרְיׄושׁ
Isa 11:10 – In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples–of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.
Shatter, נָפַץ
Isa 33:3 – At the tumultuous noise peoples flee; when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered,
Collect, קָבַץ
Isa 43:9 – All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say, It is true.
Run, רוּץ
Isa 55:5 – Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
Be waste, חָרֵב
Isa 60:12 – For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
Quake, רָגַז
Isa 64:2 – as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil–to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
Bear, יָלַד
Isa 66:8 – Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children.
Exchange, מוּר
Jer 2:11 – Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Wait for, קָוָה
Jer 3:17 – At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.
Be terrified, חָתַת
Jer 10:2 – Thus says the LORD: "Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them,
Comprehend, כּוּל
Jer 10:10 – But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Return, שׁוּב
Jer 18:8 – and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.
Be boastful, הָלַל
Jer 51:7 – Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations went mad.
Give, נָתַן
Ezek 19:8 – Then the nations set against him from provinces on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
Sit, יָשַׁב
Ezek 31:6 – All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations.
Rule, מָשַׁל
Joel 2:17 – Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, "Spare your people, O LORD, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"
Take possession, נָחַל
Zeph 2:9 – Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."
Borrow, לָוָה
Zech 2:11 – And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
Verbs with "Nation" (גֹּוי) as Object
Possess, יָרַשׁ
Ex 34:24 – For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.
Deut 4:38 – driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,
Deut 9:1 – "Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven,
Deut 11:23 – then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Josh 23:9 – For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.
Josh 23:13 – know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the LORD your God has given you.
Ps 44:2 – you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free;
Isa 54:3 – For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your offspring will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities.
Cut, כָּרַת
Deut 12:29 – "When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,
Deut 19:1 – "When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
Isa 10:7 – But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few;
Zeph 3:6 – "I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.
Drive out, גָּרַשׁ
1 Chr 17:21 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?
Ps 78:55 – He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Ps 80:8 – You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
Gather, אָסַף
Hab 2:5 – "Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples."
Zeph 3:8 – "Therefore wait for me," declares the LORD, "for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.
Zech 14:2 – For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Kill, הָרַג
Gen 20:4 – Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, "Lord, will you kill an innocent people?
Hab 1:17 – Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?
Draw off, נָשַׁל
Deut 7:1 – "When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,
Deut 7:22 – The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
Lift, נָשָׂא
Deut 28:49 – The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,
Deut 28:50 – a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.
Destroy, שָׁמַד
Deut 31:3 – The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken.
Zech 12:9 – And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Strike, נָכָה
2 Kgs 6:18 – And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
Ps 135:10 – who struck down many nations and killed mighty kings,
Give, נָתַן
Ps 2:8 – Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
Isa 41:2 – Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
Collect, קָבַץ
Isa 66:18 – "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Joel 3:2 – I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
Come, בֹּוא
Jer 5:15 – Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
Ezek 7:24 – I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned.
Give drink, שָׁקָה
Jer 25:15 – Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
Jer 25:17 – So I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink it:
Be holy, קָדַשׁ
Jer 51:27 – "Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.
Jer 51:28 – Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.
Quake, רָעַשׁ
Ezek 31:16 – I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the world below.
Hag 2:7 – And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.
Stumble, כָּשַׁל
Ezek 36:14 – therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 36:15 – And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."
Judge, דֹּון
Gen 15:14 – But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Vomit, קִיא
Lev 18:28 – lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Eat, אָכַל
Num 24:8 – God brings him out of Egypt and is for him like the horns of the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows.
Take, לָקַח
Deut 4:34 – Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Borrow, עָבַט
Deut 15:6 – For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Borrow, לָוָה
Deut 28:12 – The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Take possession, נָחַל
Deut 32:8 – When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Fall, נָפַל
Josh 23:4 – Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
Settle, נוּחַ
Judg 2:23 – So the LORD left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
Swear, שָׁבַע
1 Kgs 18:10 – As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, 'He is not here,' he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.
Be waste, חָרֵב
2 Kgs 19:17 – Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands
Rebuke, גָּעַר
Ps 9:5 – You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
Attend to, פָּקַד
Ps 59:5 – You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah
Be high, רוּם
Prov 14:34 – Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
Be much, הַרְבָּה
Isa 9:3 – You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
Have dominion, רָדָה
Isa 14:6 – that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.
Subdue, רָדַד
Isa 45:1 – Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:
Spurt, נָזָה
Isa 52:15 – so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.
Call, קָרָא
Isa 55:5 – Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.
Root out, נָתַשׁ
Jer 12:17 – But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD."
Shatter, נָפַץ
Jer 51:20 – "You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;
Ascend, עָלָה
Ezek 26:3 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Judge, שָׁפַט
Joel 3:12 – Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Arise, קוּם
Amos 6:14 – "For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel," declares the LORD, the God of hosts; "and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah."
Do, עָשָׂה
Mic 5:15 – And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.
Sell, מָכַר
Nah 3:4 – And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whorings, and peoples with her charms.
See, רָאָה
Nah 3:5 – Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will make nations look at your nakedness and kingdoms at your shame.
Spoil, שָׁלַל
Hab 2:8 – Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.
Be free, נָתַר
Hab 3:6 – He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.
Tread on, דּוּשׁ
Hab 3:12 – You marched through the earth in fury; you threshed the nations in anger.
Hurt, נָגַף
Zech 14:18 – And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
Verbs with "Nation" (גֹּוי) as Indirect Object
Do, עָשָׂה
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Ex 32:10 – Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
Num 14:12 – I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Deut 9:14 – Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
Josh 23:3 – And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.
Ps 147:20 – He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!
Ps 149:7 – to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,
Ezek 37:22 – And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
Be dispersed, פּוּץ
Jer 9:16 – I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them."
Ezek 12:15 – And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.
Ezek 20:23 – Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,
Ezek 22:15 – I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you.
Ezek 29:12 – And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 30:23 – I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 30:26 – And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 36:19 – I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
Give, נָתַן
Gen 17:6 – I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
Gen 17:20 – As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
1 Chr 14:17 – And the fame of David went out into all lands, and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.
Jer 26:6 – then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'"
Ezek 5:14 – Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
Ezek 25:7 – therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Be, הָיָה
Ex 9:24 – There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Jer 46:1 – The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Ezek 20:32 – "What is in your mind shall never happen–the thought, 'Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.'
Ezek 26:5 – She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. And she shall become plunder for the nations,
Ezek 34:28 – They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them. They shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
Ezek 37:22 – And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
Hos 9:17 – My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Walk, הָלַךְ
Deut 28:36 – "The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
2 Kgs 17:15 – They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
1 Chr 16:20 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
Ps 105:13 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
Isa 18:2 – which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
Send, שָׁלַח
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Jer 49:14 – I have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: "Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!
Ezek 2:3 – And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.
Obad 1:1 – The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!"
Zech 2:8 – For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
Lift, נָשָׂא
1 Chr 18:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines and Amalek.
Isa 2:4 – He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Isa 49:22 – Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Speak, דָּבַר
Jer 18:7 – If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,
Jer 18:9 – And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,
Jer 27:13 – Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Zech 9:10 – I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Come, בֹּוא
Josh 23:7 – that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Ezek 36:20 – But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.'
Say, אָמַר
1 Chr 16:31 – Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!"
Ps 96:10 – Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity."
Isa 65:1 – I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I," to a nation that was not called by my name.
Go out, יָצָא
Isa 42:1 – Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
Jer 25:32 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, disaster is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!
Ezek 16:14 – And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.
Attend to, פָּקַד
Jer 1:10 – See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Jer 27:8 – "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
Avenge, נָקַם
Jer 5:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jer 5:29 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"
Jer 9:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Rule, מָשַׁל
Deut 15:6 – For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Ps 22:28 – For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
Sell, מָכַר
Neh 5:8 – and said to them, "We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!" They were silent and could not find a word to say.
Joel 3:8 – I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken."
Look out, צָפָה
Ps 66:7 – who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations–let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
Lam 4:17 – Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.
Pour, שֶׂפֶק
Ps 79:6 – Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name!
Jer 10:25 – Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Collect, קָבַץ
Ps 106:47 – Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.
Jer 29:14 – I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Scatter, זָרָה
Lev 26:33 – And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Perish, אָבַד
Lev 26:38 – And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
Account, חָשַׁב
Num 23:9 – For from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I behold him; behold, a people dwelling alone, and not counting itself among the nations!
Cling, cleave to, דָּבַק
Josh 23:12 – For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
Be holy, קָדַשׁ
2 Sam 8:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,
Count, סָפַר
1 Chr 16:24 – Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
Deliver, נָצַל
1 Chr 16:35 – Say also: "Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.
Be great, שָׂגָא
Job 12:23 – He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
Spread, שָׁטַח
Job 12:23 – He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
Contend, רִיב
Ps 43:1 – Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!
Be king, מָלַךְ
Ps 47:8 – God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
Mock, לָעַג
Ps 59:8 – But you, O LORD, laugh at them; you hold all the nations in derision.
Take possession, נָחַל
Ps 82:8 – Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Fall, נָפַל
Ps 106:27 – and would make their offspring fall among the nations, scattering them among the lands.
Stand bail, עָרַב
Ps 106:35 – but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did.
Judge, דֹּון
Ps 110:6 – He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.
Be high, רוּם
Ps 113:4 – The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens!
Interweave, נָסַךְ
Isa 25:7 – And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
Add, יָסַף
Isa 26:15 – But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Sprout, צָמַח
Isa 61:11 – For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.
Remember, זָכַר
Jer 4:16 – Warn the nations that he is coming; announce to Jerusalem, "Besiegers come from a distant land; they shout against the cities of Judah.
Ask, שָׁאַל
Jer 18:13 – "Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations, Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing.
Speak as prophet, נָבָא
Jer 25:13 – I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
Return, שׁוּב
Jer 43:5 – But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven–
Cut, כָּרַת
Jer 48:2 – the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.
Ascend, עָלָה
Jer 49:31 – "Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, that dwells securely, declares the LORD, that has no gates or bars, that dwells alone.
Report, נָגַד
Jer 50:2 – "Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: 'Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'
Hear, שָׁמַע
Jer 50:46 – At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations."
Sit, יָשַׁב
Lam 1:3 – Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations, but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
Be far, רָחַק
Ezek 11:16 – Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.'
Fornicate, זָנָה
Ezek 23:30 – have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
Have dominion, רָדָה
Ezek 29:15 – It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.
Take, לָקַח
Ezek 36:24 – I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
Gather, אָסַף
Ezek 38:12 – to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.
Uncover, גָּלָה
Ezek 39:28 – Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.
Stand, עָמַד
Dan 8:22 – As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation, but not with his power.
Flee, נָדַד
Hos 9:17 – My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Scatter, פָּזַר
Joel 3:2 – I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
Quiver, נוּעַ
Amos 9:9 – "For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
Reprove, יָכַח
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Be angry, קָצַף
Zech 1:15 – And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.
Be stormy, סָעַר
Zech 7:14 – "and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."
Fight, לָחַם
Zech 14:3 – Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.
Remain, יָתַר
Zech 14:16 – Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.
Adjectives Modifying "Nation" (גֹּוי)
These, אֵהֶל
Deut 7:17 – "If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?'
Deut 9:4 – "Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deut 11:23 – then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Deut 12:30 – take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?–that I also may do the same.'
Deut 18:14 – for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.
Deut 20:15 – Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.
Deut 31:3 – The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken.
Josh 23:3 – And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.
Josh 23:4 – Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
Josh 23:7 – that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,
Josh 23:12 – For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
Josh 23:13 – know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the LORD your God has given you.
Judg 2:23 – So the LORD left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
2 Kgs 17:41 – So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children–as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
2 Chr 32:14 – Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 25:11 – This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jer 28:14 – For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.'"
Much, רַב
Deut 7:1 – "When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,
Deut 15:6 – For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deut 26:5 – "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Deut 28:12 – The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Neh 13:26 – Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.
Ps 135:10 – who struck down many nations and killed mighty kings,
Isa 52:15 – so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.
Jer 22:8 – "'And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?"
Jer 25:14 – For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
Jer 27:7 – All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
Ezek 26:3 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Ezek 31:6 – All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations.
Ezek 38:23 – So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 39:27 – when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies' lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations.
Mic 4:2 – and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Mic 4:11 – Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion."
Hab 2:8 – Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.
Zech 2:11 – And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
Great, גָּבֹול
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 17:20 – As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 21:18 – Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
Gen 46:3 – Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.
Ex 32:10 – Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
Num 14:12 – I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Deut 4:7 – For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
Deut 4:8 – And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
Deut 4:38 – driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,
Deut 26:5 – "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Josh 23:9 – For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.
Jer 6:22 – Thus says the LORD: "Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Jer 50:9 – For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
Jer 50:41 – "Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Mighty, עָצוּם
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Num 14:12 – I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Deut 4:38 – driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,
Deut 26:5 – "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Josh 23:9 – For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.
Isa 60:22 – The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the LORD; in its time I will hasten it.
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Mic 4:7 – and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.
Zech 8:22 – Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD.
This, זֶה
Ex 33:13 – Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people."
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Judg 2:20 – So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
2 Kgs 6:18 – And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
Hag 2:14 – Then Haggai answered and said, "So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the LORD, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.
Ruthless, עָרִיץ
Isa 25:3 – Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
Ezek 28:7 – therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.
Ezek 30:11 – He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
Ezek 31:12 – Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it.
Ezek 32:12 – I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. "They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.
They, הֵם
Deut 18:9 – "When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
Deut 28:65 – And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.
Deut 29:18 – Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,
Zech 14:3 – Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.
He, הוּא
Jer 12:17 – But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD."
Jer 18:8 – and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Jer 27:8 – "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
Just, צַדִּיק
Gen 20:4 – Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, "Lord, will you kill an innocent people?
Isa 26:2 – Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
Holy, קָדֹושׁ
Ex 19:6 – and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel."
These, אֵל
Deut 7:22 – The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
Strong, עַז
Deut 28:50 – a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.
Stupid, נָבָל
Deut 32:21 – They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Perish, אָבַד
Deut 32:28 – "For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
Remain, שָׁאַר
Josh 23:4 – Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
Loyal, חָסִיד
Ps 43:1 – Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!
Miss, חָטָא
Isa 1:4 – Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
Alienated, חָנֵף
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Pull off, מָרַט
Isa 18:2 – which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
Draw, מָשַׁךְ
Isa 18:2 – which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
Ever-flowing, אֵיתָן
Jer 5:15 – Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.
Quiet, שָׁלֵו
Jer 49:31 – "Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, that dwells securely, declares the LORD, that has no gates or bars, that dwells alone.
Evil, רַע
Ezek 7:24 – I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned.
Mighty, אַדִּיר
Ezek 32:18 – "Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:
Not, הֲלֹא
Ezek 36:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.
Remote, רָחֹוק
Joel 3:8 – I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken."
Hasten, מָהַר
Hab 1:6 – For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.
Bitter, מַר
Hab 1:6 – For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.
At ease, שַׁאֲנָן
Zech 1:15 – And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.
Predicate Complements of "Nation" (גֹּוי)
In, among, בְּ
Gen 25:23 – And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger."
Isa 30:28 – his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.
Out of, מִן
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Isa 40:15 – Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.
Be, הָיָה
Ex 19:6 – and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel."
Jer 31:36 – "If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the LORD, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever."
People, עַם
Ex 33:13 – Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people."
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Who, מִי
Deut 4:7 – For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?
Deut 4:8 – And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
Like, as, כְּ
Isa 40:15 – Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.
Isa 40:17 – All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
Understand, בִּין
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Wise, חָכָם
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Much, רַב
Deut 7:17 – "If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?'
Do, עָשָׂה
2 Kgs 17:29 – But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived.
Fear, יָרֵא
2 Kgs 17:41 – So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children–as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
Uncircumcised, עָרֵל
Jer 9:26 – Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart."
To, for, לְ
Jer 33:24 – "Have you not observed that these people are saying, 'The LORD has rejected the two clans that he chose'? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.
So, כֵּן
Hag 2:14 – Then Haggai answered and said, "So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the LORD, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.
Appositions with "Nation" (גֹּוי)
Remain, שָׁאַר
Josh 23:7 – that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,
Josh 23:12 – For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
Whole, כֹּל
Ezek 36:5 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
Mal 3:9 – You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.
Man, אִישׁ
Josh 5:6 – For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Be hostile, אֹיֵב
Neh 5:9 – So I said, "The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
Son, בֵּן
Isa 1:4 – Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
Seed, זֶרַע
Isa 1:4 – Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
People, עַם
Isa 1:4 – Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
Lud, לוּד
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Pul, פּוּל
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Tarshish, תַּרְשִׁישׁ
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Prepositions with "Nation" (גֹּוי)
In, among, בְּ
Gen 10:5 – From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.
Gen 10:20 – These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
Gen 10:32 – These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Lev 26:33 – And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
Lev 26:38 – And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
Num 23:9 – For from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I behold him; behold, a people dwelling alone, and not counting itself among the nations!
Deut 4:27 – And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.
Deut 15:6 – For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
Deut 28:65 – And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.
Deut 30:1 – "And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,
Deut 32:21 – They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Josh 23:7 – that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,
Josh 23:12 – For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
2 Sam 22:50 – "For this I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to your name.
1 Kgs 4:31 – For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.
1 Chr 16:24 – Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
1 Chr 16:31 – Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!"
2 Chr 15:6 – They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.
Neh 6:6 – In it was written, "It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king.
Neh 13:26 – Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.
Ps 18:49 – For this I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing to your name.
Ps 22:28 – For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
Ps 44:11 – You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations.
Ps 44:14 – You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Ps 46:10 – "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"
Ps 66:7 – who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations–let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
Ps 67:2 – that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.
Ps 79:10 – Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
Ps 82:8 – Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Ps 96:3 – Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
Ps 96:10 – Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity."
Ps 106:27 – and would make their offspring fall among the nations, scattering them among the lands.
Ps 106:35 – but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did.
Ps 110:6 – He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.
Ps 126:2 – Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."
Ps 149:7 – to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,
Isa 10:6 – Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isa 61:9 – Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the LORD has blessed.
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Jer 5:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jer 5:29 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?"
Jer 9:9 – Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
Jer 9:16 – I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them."
Jer 18:13 – "Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations, Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing.
Jer 25:31 – The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.'
Jer 29:18 – I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 44:8 – Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?
Jer 46:28 – Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
Jer 49:14 – I have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: "Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!
Jer 49:15 – For behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among mankind.
Jer 50:2 – "Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: 'Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'
Jer 50:23 – How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
Jer 50:46 – At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations."
Jer 51:27 – "Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.
Jer 51:41 – "How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
Lam 1:1 – How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave.
Lam 1:3 – Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations, but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
Lam 2:9 – Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
Lam 4:15 – "Away! Unclean!" people cried at them. "Away! Away! Do not touch!" So they became fugitives and wanderers; people said among the nations, "They shall stay with us no longer."
Lam 4:20 – The breath of our nostrils, the LORD's anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the nations."
Ezek 4:13 – And the LORD said, "Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them."
Ezek 5:14 – Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
Ezek 6:8 – "Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,
Ezek 6:9 – then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
Ezek 11:16 – Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.'
Ezek 12:15 – And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.
Ezek 12:16 – But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 16:14 – And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 20:23 – Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,
Ezek 22:15 – I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you.
Ezek 25:10 – I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,
Ezek 29:12 – And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 29:15 – It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.
Ezek 30:23 – I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries.
Ezek 30:26 – And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 32:9 – "I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known.
Ezek 36:19 – I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
Ezek 36:21 – But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.
Ezek 36:22 – "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.
Ezek 36:23 – And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Ezek 36:30 – I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Dan 11:23 – And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully, and he shall become strong with a small people.
Hos 8:8 – Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.
Hos 8:10 – Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute.
Hos 9:17 – My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Joel 2:19 – The LORD answered and said to his people, "Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
Joel 3:2 – I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
Joel 3:9 – Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up.
Amos 9:9 – "For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
Obad 1:1 – The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!"
Obad 1:2 – Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised.
Mic 5:8 – And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
Hab 1:5 – "Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.
Zech 8:13 – And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong."
Zech 14:3 – Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.
Mal 1:11 – For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.
Mal 1:14 – Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.
To, for, לְ
Gen 10:31 – These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
Gen 12:2 – And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 17:6 – I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.
Gen 17:16 – I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."
Gen 17:20 – As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 21:13 – And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."
Gen 21:18 – Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
Gen 46:3 – Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.
Ex 9:24 – There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Ex 32:10 – Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you."
Num 14:12 – I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
Deut 9:14 – Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'
Deut 26:5 – "And you shall make response before the LORD your God, 'A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Josh 23:3 – And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.
Neh 5:8 – and said to them, "We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!" They were silent and could not find a word to say.
Job 12:23 – He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.
Ps 59:8 – But you, O LORD, laugh at them; you hold all the nations in derision.
Ps 147:20 – He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!
Isa 5:26 – He will raise a signal for nations afar off, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
Isa 11:12 – He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isa 26:15 – But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Isa 42:1 – Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
Isa 60:22 – The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the LORD; in its time I will hasten it.
Jer 1:5 – "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Jer 4:16 – Warn the nations that he is coming; announce to Jerusalem, "Besiegers come from a distant land; they shout against the cities of Judah.
Jer 26:6 – then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'"
Jer 33:9 – And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.
Ezek 5:15 – You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes–I am the LORD, I have spoken–
Ezek 22:4 – You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.
Ezek 25:7 – therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 26:5 – She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. And she shall become plunder for the nations,
Ezek 34:28 – They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them. They shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
Ezek 37:22 – And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Mic 4:7 – and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.
Zech 9:10 – I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Above, עַל
Deut 26:19 – and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
1 Chr 14:17 – And the fame of David went out into all lands, and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.
Job 34:29 – When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?–
Ps 47:8 – God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
Ps 113:4 – The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens!
Isa 14:12 – "How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
Isa 14:26 – This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
Isa 25:7 – And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
Isa 34:2 – For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
Jer 1:10 – See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
Jer 10:25 – Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
Jer 18:7 – If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,
Jer 18:9 – And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Jer 25:13 – I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
Jer 27:8 – "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
Jer 36:2 – "Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.
Jer 46:1 – The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Ezek 29:15 – It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.
Obad 1:15 – For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
Zech 1:15 – And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.
Zech 7:14 – "and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."
Out of, מִן
Judg 2:21 – I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,
2 Sam 8:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,
1 Kgs 11:2 – from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, "You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love.
2 Kgs 21:9 – But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.
1 Chr 16:20 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
1 Chr 16:35 – Say also: "Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.
1 Chr 18:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines and Amalek.
2 Chr 33:9 – Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.
Neh 5:17 – Moreover, there were at my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.
Ps 43:1 – Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!
Ps 83:4 – They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!"
Ps 105:13 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
Ps 106:47 – Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.
Isa 66:20 – And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.
Jer 25:32 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, disaster is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!
Jer 29:14 – I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Jer 43:5 – But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven–
Jer 48:2 – the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster against her: 'Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!' You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.
Ezek 5:6 – And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.
Ezek 5:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
Ezek 36:24 – I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
Ezek 38:12 – to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.
Dan 8:22 – As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation, but not with his power.
Zech 14:16 – Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.
To, אֶל
Deut 28:36 – "The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
1 Chr 16:20 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
Ps 79:6 – Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name!
Ps 105:13 – wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
Isa 2:4 – He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Isa 18:2 – which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
Isa 49:22 – Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
Isa 65:1 – I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I," to a nation that was not called by my name.
Isa 66:19 – and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Jer 25:32 – "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, disaster is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!
Jer 27:13 – Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
Jer 49:31 – "Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, that dwells securely, declares the LORD, that has no gates or bars, that dwells alone.
Lam 4:17 – Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.
Ezek 2:3 – And he said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.
Ezek 36:20 – But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.'
Ezek 39:28 – Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.
Joel 3:8 – I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken."
Mic 4:3 – He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;
Zech 2:8 – For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
Like, as, כְּ
Deut 8:20 – Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Deut 17:14 – "When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,'
1 Sam 8:5 – and said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations."
1 Sam 8:20 – that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles."
2 Kgs 17:11 – and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger,
Isa 58:2 – Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
Ezek 20:32 – "What is in your mind shall never happen–the thought, 'Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.'
Ezek 25:8 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Moab and Seir said, 'Behold, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,'
The hinder, אַחַר
2 Kgs 17:15 – They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
Ezek 23:30 – have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
[object marker], אֵת
Lev 25:44 – As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.
Interval, בַּיִן
Isa 2:4 – He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Counterpart, נֶגֶד
Isa 61:11 – For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.
… of "Nation" (גֹּוי)
Whole, כֹּל
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 22:18 – and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
Gen 26:4 – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Deut 11:23 – then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Deut 17:14 – "When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,'
Deut 26:19 – and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Deut 29:24 – all the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?'
Deut 30:1 – "And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,
Josh 3:17 – Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.
Josh 4:1 – When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,
Josh 5:6 – For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Josh 5:8 – When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.
Josh 23:3 – And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.
Josh 23:4 – Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
1 Sam 8:5 – and said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations."
1 Sam 8:20 – that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles."
2 Sam 8:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,
1 Kgs 4:31 – For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.
1 Chr 14:17 – And the fame of David went out into all lands, and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.
1 Chr 18:11 – These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines and Amalek.
2 Chr 32:15 – Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'"
2 Chr 32:23 – And many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from that time onward.
Neh 6:16 – And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.
Ps 9:17 – The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.
Ps 59:5 – You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah
Ps 59:8 – But you, O LORD, laugh at them; you hold all the nations in derision.
Ps 67:2 – that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.
Ps 72:11 – May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!
Ps 72:17 – May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
Ps 82:8 – Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!
Ps 86:9 – All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.
Ps 113:4 – The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens!
Ps 117:1 – Praise the LORD, all nations! Extol him, all peoples!
Ps 118:10 – All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
Ps 147:20 – He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!
Isa 2:2 – It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
Isa 14:26 – This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
Isa 25:7 – And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
Isa 29:7 – And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.
Isa 29:8 – As when a hungry man dreams he is eating and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.
Isa 34:2 – For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
Isa 40:17 – All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
Isa 43:9 – All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say, It is true.
Isa 52:10 – The LORD has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Isa 61:11 – For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.
Isa 66:18 – "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Isa 66:20 – And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.
Jer 3:17 – At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.
Jer 9:26 – Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart."
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Jer 25:13 – I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
Jer 25:15 – Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
Jer 25:17 – So I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink it:
Jer 26:6 – then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'"
Jer 27:7 – All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
Jer 28:11 – And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, "Thus says the LORD: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within two years." But Jeremiah the prophet went his way.
Jer 28:14 – For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.'"
Jer 29:14 – I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Jer 29:18 – I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,
Jer 30:11 – For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jer 33:9 – And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.
Jer 36:2 – "Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.
Jer 43:5 – But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven–
Jer 44:8 – Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?
Jer 46:28 – Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished."
Ezek 25:8 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Moab and Seir said, 'Behold, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,'
Ezek 31:6 – All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations.
Ezek 39:21 – "And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
Joel 3:2 – I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
Joel 3:11 – Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD.
Joel 3:12 – Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Amos 9:9 – "For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
Amos 9:12 – that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name," declares the LORD who does this.
Obad 1:15 – For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.
Obad 1:16 – For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been.
Hab 2:5 – "Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples."
Hag 2:7 – And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.
Zech 7:14 – "and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."
Zech 12:3 – On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.
Zech 12:9 – And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zech 14:2 – For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Zech 14:14 – Even Judah will fight against Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance.
Zech 14:16 – Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.
Zech 14:19 – This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
Mal 3:12 – Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD of hosts.
Eye, עֹונָה
Lev 26:45 – But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, 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."
Ps 98:2 – The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 5:8 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 20:9 – But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
Ezek 20:14 – But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
Ezek 20:22 – But I withheld my hand and acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
Ezek 20:41 – As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezek 22:16 – And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezek 28:25 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.
Ezek 38:23 – So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
Ezek 39:27 – when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies' lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations.
God/god(s), אֱלֹהִים
Deut 29:18 – Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,
2 Kgs 18:33 – Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Kgs 19:12 – Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
2 Chr 32:13 – Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand?
2 Chr 32:14 – Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?
2 Chr 32:17 – And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the LORD, the God of Israel and to speak against him, saying, "Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand."
Isa 36:18 – Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you by saying, "The LORD will deliver us." Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Isa 37:12 – Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
Abomination, תֹּועֵבָה
Deut 18:9 – "When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
1 Kgs 14:24 – and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Kgs 16:3 – but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Kgs 21:2 – And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Chr 28:3 – and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Chr 33:2 – And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
2 Chr 36:14 – All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem.
King, מֶלֶךְ
Gen 14:1 – In the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
Gen 14:9 – with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five.
Josh 12:23 – the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Galilee, one;
Isa 14:9 – Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.
Isa 14:18 – All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;
Jer 10:7 – Who would not fear you, O King of the nations? For this is your due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like you.
Two, שְׁנַיִם
Gen 25:23 – And the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger."
Ezek 35:10 – "Because you said, 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them'–although the LORD was there–
Ezek 37:22 – And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
Head, רֹאשׁ
2 Sam 22:44 – "You delivered me from strife with my people; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Ps 18:43 – You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Jer 31:7 – For thus says the LORD: "Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, 'O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.'
Justice, מִשְׁפָּט
2 Kgs 17:33 – So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
Ezek 5:7 – Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
Ezek 11:12 – and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you."
Kingdom, מַמְלָכָה
2 Chr 20:6 – and said, "O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.
Isa 13:4 – The sound of a tumult is on the mountains as of a great multitude! The sound of an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle.
Hag 2:22 – and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his brother.
Power, חַיִל
Isa 60:5 – Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
Isa 60:11 – Your gates shall be open continually; day and night they shall not be shut, that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations, with their kings led in procession.
Isa 61:6 – but you shall be called the priests of the LORD; they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast.
Insult, כְּלִמָּה
Ezek 34:29 – And I will provide for them renowned plantations so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations.
Ezek 36:6 – Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.
Ezek 36:15 – And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."
Rest, שְׁאֵרִית
Ezek 36:3 – therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people,
Ezek 36:4 – therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around,
Ezek 36:5 – therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
Coast, island, אִי
Gen 10:5 – From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.
Zeph 2:11 – The LORD will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.
Sound, הָמֹון
Gen 17:4 – "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
Gen 17:5 – No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Assembly, קָהָל
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
Jer 50:9 – For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
Regulation, חֻקָּה
Lev 20:23 – And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.
2 Kgs 17:8 – and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced.
Beginning, רֵאשִׁית
Num 24:20 – Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, "Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction."
Amos 6:1 – "Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel comes!
Interior, קֶרֶב
Deut 4:34 – Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deut 29:16 – "You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed.
Possess, יָרַשׁ
Deut 9:4 – "Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, 'It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Remainder, יֶתֶר
Josh 23:12 – For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
Zeph 2:9 – Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."
Light, אֹור
Isa 42:6 – "I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,
Isa 49:6 – he says: "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth."
Midst, תָּוֶךְ
Ezek 5:5 – "Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
Ezek 31:17 – They also went down to Sheol with it, to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were its arm, who lived under its shadow among the nations.
Daughter, בַּת
Ezek 32:16 – This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord GOD."
Ezek 32:18 – "Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:
Fullness, מְלֹא
Gen 48:19 – But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."
City, עִיר
Deut 20:15 – Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.
Uncleanness, טֻמְאָה
Ezra 6:21 – It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by everyone who had joined them and separated himself from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.
Reproach, חֶרְפָּה
Neh 5:9 – So I said, "The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
Clan, מִשְׁפָּחָה
Ps 22:27 – All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
Counsel, עֵצָה
Ps 33:10 – The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
Happiness, אֶשֶׁר
Ps 33:12 – Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
Admonish, יָסַר
Ps 94:10 – He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge–
Earth, אֶרֶץ
Ps 105:44 – And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' toil,
Joy, שִׂמְחָה
Ps 106:5 – that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
Hand, יָד
Ps 106:41 – he gave them into the hand of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them.
Heritage, נַחֲלָה
Ps 111:6 – He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the inheritance of the nations.
Image, עָצָב
Ps 135:15 – The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
Galilee, גָּלִיל
Isa 9:1 – But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Messenger, מַלְאָךְ
Isa 14:32 – What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."
Lord, baal, בָּעַל
Isa 16:8 – For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea.
Gain, סָחַר
Isa 23:3 – And on many waters your revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; you were the merchant of the nations.
Town, קִרְיָה
Isa 25:3 – Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
Escaped one, פָּלִיט
Isa 45:20 – "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.
Be abhorrent, תָּעַב
Isa 49:7 – Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."
Milk, חָלָב
Isa 60:16 – You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Weight, כָּבֹוד
Isa 66:12 – For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees.
Army, צָבָא
Jer 3:19 – "'I said How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.
Destroy, שָׁחַת
Jer 4:7 – A lion has gone up from his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.
Way, דֶּרֶךְ
Jer 10:2 – Thus says the LORD: "Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them,
Wise, חָכָם
Jer 10:7 – Who would not fear you, O King of the nations? For this is your due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like you.
Breath, הֶבֶל
Jer 14:22 – Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O LORD our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.
End, אַחֲרִית
Jer 50:12 – your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Behold, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Time, עֵת
Ezek 30:3 – For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
God, אֵל
Ezek 31:11 – I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.
Young lion, כְּפִיר
Ezek 32:2 – "Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: "You consider yourself a lion of the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.
Be bereaved, מְשַׁכֶּלֶת
Ezek 36:13 – Thus says the Lord GOD: Because they say to you, 'You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,'
Interval, בַּיִן
Ezek 37:21 – then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land.
Little, מְעַט
Dan 11:23 – And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully, and he shall become strong with a small people.
Alive, חַי
Zeph 2:14 – Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts; even the owl and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
Horn, קֶרֶן
Zech 1:21 – And I said, "What are these coming to do?" He said, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it."
Tongue, לָשֹׁון
Zech 8:23 – Thus says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"
"Nation" (גֹּוי) of …
Earth, אֶרֶץ
Gen 18:18 – seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 22:18 – and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
Gen 26:4 – I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
Deut 28:1 – "And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
2 Chr 32:13 – Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand?
2 Chr 32:17 – And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the LORD, the God of Israel and to speak against him, saying, "Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand."
Ezra 6:21 – It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by everyone who had joined them and separated himself from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.
Jer 26:6 – then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'"
Jer 33:9 – And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.
Jer 44:8 – Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?
Zech 12:3 – On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.
Them
Gen 10:5 – From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.
Gen 10:20 – These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
Gen 10:31 – These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
Gen 10:32 – These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.
You
Ezek 36:13 – Thus says the Lord GOD: Because they say to you, 'You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,'
Ezek 36:14 – therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezek 36:15 – And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD."
Subjugation, מְבוּסָה
Isa 18:2 – which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
Isa 18:7 – At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of hosts.
[uncertain], קָו
Isa 18:2 – which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
Isa 18:7 – At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of hosts.
You
Ps 106:5 – that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
Cherethite, כְּרֵתִי
Zeph 2:5 – Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.
I
Zeph 2:9 – Therefore, as I live," declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them."
… and "Nation" (גֹּוי)
Kingdom, מַמְלָכָה
Ex 19:6 – and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel."
1 Kgs 18:10 – As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, 'He is not here,' he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.
Whole, כֹּל
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
2 Chr 32:15 – Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'"
Earth, אֶרֶץ
Ex 34:10 – And he said, "Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Nation, גֹּוי
2 Kgs 17:29 – But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived.
God, אֱלֹוהַּ
2 Chr 32:15 – Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'"
Sit, יָשַׁב
Jer 25:9 – behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
King, מֶלֶךְ
Jer 25:12 – Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.
Judah, יְהוּדָה
Jer 36:2 – "Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.
People, עַם
Zech 8:22 – Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD.
Sin, חַטָּאָה
Zech 14:19 – This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
"Nation" (גֹּוי) and …
Kingdom, מַמְלָכָה
1 Kgs 18:10 – As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, 'He is not here,' he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.
2 Chr 32:15 – Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!'"
Isa 60:12 – For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
Jer 1:10 – See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
Jer 18:7 – If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,
Jer 18:9 – And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,
Jer 27:8 – "'"But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.
King, מֶלֶךְ
Jer 25:14 – For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
Jer 27:7 – All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
Jer 50:41 – "Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.
Assembly, קָהָל
Gen 35:11 – And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.
God/god(s), אֱלֹהִים
2 Sam 7:23 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?
Nation, גֹּוי
2 Kgs 17:29 – But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived.
Earth, אֶרֶץ
2 Kgs 19:17 – Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands
Human, mankind, אָדָם
Job 34:29 – When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?–
Tongue, לָשֹׁון
Isa 66:18 – "For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,
Whole, כֹּל
Jer 29:14 – I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
Place, מָקֹום
Jer 29:14 – I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
"Nation" (גֹּוי) as Adjunct of …
Seven, שֶׁבַע
Deut 7:1 – "When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,
Adjunct of "Nation" (גֹּוי)
One, אֶחָד
2 Sam 7:23 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?
1 Chr 17:21 – And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?
Ezek 37:22 – And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
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