NATION

Passages on this topic · 204

• Genesis 20:4

  Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

• Genesis 20:9

  Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”

• Leviticus 26:6

  “‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

• Joshua 7:1

  But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against the children of Israel.

• Joshua 7:11

  Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.

• Joshua 7:12

  Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

• Joshua 7:13

  “Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, “There is a devoted thing among you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you.”

• Joshua 7:14

  “‘In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall come near by households. The household which Yahweh selects shall come near man by man.

• Joshua 7:15

  It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed Yahweh’s covenant, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

• Joshua 7:16

  So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.

• Joshua 7:17

  He brought near the family of Judah; and he selected the family of the Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was selected.

• Joshua 7:18

  He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.

• Joshua 7:19

  Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”

• Joshua 7:20

  Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.

• Joshua 7:21

  When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

• Joshua 7:22

  So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.

• Joshua 7:23

  They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh.

• Joshua 7:24

  Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

• Joshua 7:25

  Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

• Joshua 7:26

  They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.

• Joshua 14:15

  Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.

• Joshua 21:44

  Yahweh gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand.

• Judges 3:11

  The land had rest forty years, then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

• Judges 3:30

  So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. Then the land had rest eighty years.

• Judges 21:2

  The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.

• Judges 21:3

  They said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be one tribe lacking in Israel today?”

• Judges 21:4

  On the next day, the people rose early, and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

• 2 Samuel 24:10

  David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

• 2 Samuel 24:11

  When David rose up in the morning, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,

• 2 Samuel 24:12

  “Go and speak to David, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”

• 2 Samuel 24:13

  So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”

• 2 Samuel 24:14

  David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”

• 2 Samuel 24:15

  So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.

• 2 Samuel 24:16

  When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

• 2 Samuel 24:17

  David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”

• 1 Kings 2:33

  So their blood will return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”

• 1 Kings 4:24

  For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him.

• 1 Kings 4:25

  Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

• 2 Kings 20:19

  Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “Isn’t it so, if peace and truth will be in my days?”

• 1 Chronicles 21:7

  God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 21:8

  David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

• 1 Chronicles 21:9

  Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,

• 1 Chronicles 21:10

  “Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”

• 1 Chronicles 21:11

  So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:

• 1 Chronicles 21:12

  either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”

• 1 Chronicles 21:13

  David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”

• 1 Chronicles 21:14

  So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

• 1 Chronicles 21:15

  God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• 1 Chronicles 21:16

  David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

• 1 Chronicles 21:17

  David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”

• 1 Chronicles 22:9

  Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of peace. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.

• 1 Chronicles 22:18

  “Isn’t Yahweh your God with you? Hasn’t he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.

• 1 Chronicles 23:25

  For David said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.

• 2 Chronicles 7:13

  “If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

• 2 Chronicles 7:14

  if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

• Nehemiah 1:4

  When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

• Nehemiah 1:5

  and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

• Nehemiah 1:6

  Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.

• Nehemiah 1:7

  We have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses.

• Nehemiah 1:8

  “Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you among the peoples;

• Nehemiah 1:9

  but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’

• Nehemiah 1:10

  “Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.

• Nehemiah 1:11

  Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cup bearer to the king.

• Job 34:29

  When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,

• Psalms 9:17

  The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

• Psalms 29:11

  Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

• Psalms 33:12

  Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

• Psalms 46:9

  He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.

• Psalms 72:3

  The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

• Psalms 72:7

  In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

• Psalms 85:1

  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

• Psalms 85:2

  You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.

• Psalms 85:3

  You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

• Psalms 85:4

  Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

• Psalms 85:5

  Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

• Psalms 85:6

  Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

• Psalms 85:7

  Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh. Grant us your salvation.

• Psalms 89:15

  Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.

• Psalms 89:16

  In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.

• Psalms 89:17

  For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

• Psalms 89:18

  For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of Israel.

• Psalms 128:6

  Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

• Psalms 147:13

  For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.

• Psalms 147:14

  He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.

• Proverbs 14:34

  Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

• Ecclesiastes 3:8

  a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

• Isaiah 2:4

  He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning 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 any more.

• Isaiah 14:4

  that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”

• Isaiah 14:5

  Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

• Isaiah 14:6

  who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.

• Isaiah 14:7

  The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song.

• Isaiah 14:26

  This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

• Isaiah 14:27

  For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

• Isaiah 30:1

  “Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

• Isaiah 30:2

  who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

• Isaiah 45:7

  I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

• Isaiah 60:12

  For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

• Isaiah 60:17

  For brass I will bring gold; for iron I will bring silver; for wood, brass, and for stones, iron. I will also make peace your governor, and righteousness your ruler.

• Isaiah 60:18

  Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

• Isaiah 65:25

  The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 5:29

  “Shall I not punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

• Jeremiah 6:14

  They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.

• Jeremiah 8:11

  They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.

• Jeremiah 18:6

  “House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

• Jeremiah 18:7

  At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;

• Jeremiah 18:8

  if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

• Jeremiah 18:9

  At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

• Jeremiah 18:10

  if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.

• Jeremiah 25:12

  “It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation,” says Yahweh, “for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.

• Jeremiah 25:13

  I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.

• Jeremiah 25:14

  For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.”

• Jeremiah 25:15

  For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.

• Jeremiah 25:16

  They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.”

• Jeremiah 25:17

  Then took I the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:

• Jeremiah 25:18

  Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today;

• Jeremiah 25:19

  Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

• Jeremiah 25:20

  and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

• Jeremiah 25:21

  Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;

• Jeremiah 25:22

  and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;

• Jeremiah 25:23

  Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off;

• Jeremiah 25:24

  and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness;

• Jeremiah 25:25

  and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;

• Jeremiah 25:26

  and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

• Jeremiah 25:27

  “You shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.”’

• Jeremiah 25:28

  It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “You shall surely drink.

• Jeremiah 25:29

  For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.”’

• Jeremiah 25:30

  “Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and tell them, “‘Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

• Jeremiah 25:31

  A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword,”’ says Yahweh.”

• Jeremiah 25:32

  Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, evil shall go out from nation to nation, and a great storm shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.”

• Jeremiah 25:33

  The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.

• Jeremiah 29:7

  Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you shall have peace.”

• Jeremiah 30:10

  Therefore don’t you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and no one shall make him afraid.

• Jeremiah 50:34

  Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

• Lamentations 2:20

  “Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their offspring, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

• Lamentations 2:21

  “The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered, and not pitied.

• Lamentations 2:22

  “You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have dandled and brought up.

• Ezekiel 2:3

  He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.

• Ezekiel 2:4

  The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh.’

• Ezekiel 2:5

  They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.

• Ezekiel 34:25

  I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

• Ezekiel 34:26

  I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.

• Ezekiel 34:27

  The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.

• Ezekiel 34:28

  They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and no one shall make them afraid.

• Ezekiel 39:23

  The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.

• Ezekiel 39:24

  According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them.

• Daniel 7:9

  I saw until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, and its wheels burning fire.

• Daniel 7:10

  A fiery stream issued and came out from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

• Daniel 7:11

  I saw at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke; I saw even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.

• Daniel 7:12

  As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.

• Daniel 9:3

  I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

• Daniel 9:4

  I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,

• Daniel 9:5

  we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;

• Daniel 9:6

  neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

• Daniel 9:7

  Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

• Daniel 9:8

  Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

• Daniel 9:9

  To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;

• Daniel 9:10

  neither have we obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

• Daniel 9:11

  Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice: therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.

• Daniel 9:12

  He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.

• Daniel 9:13

  As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.

• Daniel 9:14

  Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

• Daniel 9:15

  Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

• Daniel 9:16

  Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.

• Daniel 9:17

  Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.

• Daniel 9:18

  My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.

• Daniel 9:19

  Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.

• Daniel 9:20

  While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

• Daniel 9:21

  yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.

• Hosea 2:18

  In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.

• Hosea 7:12

  When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

• Joel 1:1

  Yahweh’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

• Joel 1:2

  Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

• Joel 1:3

  Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

• Joel 1:4

  What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

• Joel 1:5

  Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

• Joel 1:6

  For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

• Joel 1:7

  He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

• Joel 1:8

  Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

• Joel 1:9

  The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.

• Joel 1:10

  The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, and the oil languishes.

• Joel 1:11

  Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.

• Joel 1:12

  The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.

• Joel 1:13

  Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.

• Joel 1:14

  Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.

• Joel 1:15

  Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

• Joel 1:16

  Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God?

• Joel 1:17

  The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

• Joel 1:18

  How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

• Joel 1:19

  Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

• Joel 1:20

  Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

• Joel 2:12

  “Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

• Amos 9:9

  “For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.

• Micah 4:3

  and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.

• Micah 4:4

  But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken.

• Zephaniah 3:6

  I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

• Zephaniah 3:8

  “Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

• Zechariah 1:11

  They reported to Yahweh’s angel who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, “We have walked back and forth through the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace.”

• Zechariah 3:10

  In that day,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.’”

• Zechariah 8:4

  Yahweh of Armies says: “Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

• Zechariah 8:5

  The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”

• Zechariah 9:10

  I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

• Zechariah 14:11

  Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely.

• 1 Timothy 2:1

  I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:

• 1 Timothy 2:2

  for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.