PATRIOTISM

Passages on this topic · 132

• Deuteronomy 26:1

  It shall be, when you have come in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, possess it, and dwell in it,

• Deuteronomy 26:2

  that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

• Deuteronomy 26:3

  You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess today to Yahweh your God, that I have come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.”

• Deuteronomy 26:4

  The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar.

• Deuteronomy 26:5

  You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

• Deuteronomy 26:6

  The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

• Deuteronomy 26:7

  Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

• Deuteronomy 26:8

  Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;

• Deuteronomy 26:9

  and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

• Deuteronomy 26:10

  Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me.” You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 26:11

  You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you.

• Judges 5:1

  Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,

• Judges 5:2

  “Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!

• Judges 5:3

  “Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I, even I, will sing to Yahweh. I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

• Judges 5:4

  “Yahweh, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.

• Judges 5:5

  The mountains quaked Yahweh’s presence, even Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

• Judges 5:6

  “In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.

• Judges 5:7

  The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.

• Judges 5:8

  They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

• Judges 5:9

  My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless Yahweh!

• Judges 5:10

  “Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way.

• Judges 5:11

  Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they will rehearse Yahweh’s righteous acts, the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. “Then Yahweh’s people went down to the gates.

• Judges 5:12

  ‘Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’

• Judges 5:13

  “Then a remnant of the nobles and the people came down. Yahweh came down for me against the mighty.

• Judges 5:14

  Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir. Those who handle the marshal’s staff came out of Zebulun.

• Judges 5:15

  The princes of Issachar were with Deborah. As was Issachar, so was Barak. They rushed into the valley at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben, there were great resolves of heart.

• Judges 5:16

  Why did you sit among the sheepfolds? To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben, there were great searchings of heart.

• Judges 5:17

  Gilead lived beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and lived by his creeks.

• Judges 5:18

  Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death; Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.

• Judges 5:19

  “The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo. They took no plunder of silver.

• Judges 5:20

  From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera.

• Judges 5:21

  The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.

• Judges 5:22

  Then the horse hoofs stamped because of the prancing, the prancing of their strong ones.

• Judges 5:23

  ‘Curse Meroz,’ said Yahweh’s angel. ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn’t come to help Yahweh, to help Yahweh against the mighty.’

• Judges 5:24

  “Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

• Judges 5:25

  He asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him butter in a lordly dish.

• Judges 5:26

  She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.

• Judges 5:27

  At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay. At her feet he bowed, he fell. Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

• Judges 5:28

  “Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice. ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’

• Judges 5:29

  Her wise ladies answered her, Yes, she returned answer to herself,

• Judges 5:30

  ‘Have they not found, have they not divided the plunder? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a plunder of dyed garments, a plunder of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the plunder?’

• Judges 5:31

  “So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

• Judges 8:4

  Gideon came to the Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.

• Judges 8:5

  He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

• Judges 8:6

  The princes of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”

• Judges 8:7

  Gideon said, “Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”

• Judges 8:8

  He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.

• Judges 8:9

  He spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”

• Judges 8:10

  Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.

• Judges 8:11

  Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the army; for the army was secure.

• Judges 8:12

  Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued them. He took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and confused all the army.

• Judges 8:13

  Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.

• Judges 8:14

  He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.

• Judges 8:15

  He came to the men of Succoth, and said, “See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?’”

• Judges 8:16

  He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

• Judges 8:17

  He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.

• 1 Samuel 4:17

  He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”

• 1 Samuel 4:18

  When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died; for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

• 1 Samuel 4:19

  His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered. When she heard the news that God’s ark was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.

• 1 Samuel 4:20

  About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, “Don’t be afraid; for you have given birth to a son.” But she didn’t answer, neither did she regard it.

• 1 Samuel 4:21

  She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel”; because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

• 1 Samuel 4:22

  She said, “The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark has been taken.”

• 2 Samuel 10:12

  Be courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”

• 2 Samuel 11:11

  Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!”

• 1 Kings 11:21

  When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.”

• 1 Kings 11:22

  Then Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country?” He answered, “Nothing, however only let me depart.”

• 2 Kings 7:9

  Then they said to one another, “We aren’t doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let’s go and tell the king’s household.”

• Nehemiah 1:2

  Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

• 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.

• Nehemiah 2:3

  I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”

• Psalms 51:18

  Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

• 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 85:8

  I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

• Psalms 85:9

  Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

• Psalms 85:10

  Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

• Psalms 85:11

  Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.

• Psalms 85:12

  Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

• Psalms 85:13

  Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

• Psalms 122:6

  Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.

• Psalms 122:7

  Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.

• Psalms 128:5

  May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

• Psalms 128:6

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

• Psalms 137:1

  By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

• Psalms 137:2

  On the willows in that land, we hung up our harps.

• Psalms 137:3

  For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

• Psalms 137:4

  How can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land?

• Psalms 137:5

  If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.

• Psalms 137:6

  Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you; if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

• Isaiah 62:1

  For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.

• Jeremiah 8:11

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

• Jeremiah 8:21

  For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.

• Jeremiah 8:22

  Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

• Jeremiah 9:1

  Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

• Jeremiah 9:2

  Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

• Lamentations 5:1

  Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

• Lamentations 5:2

  Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.

• Lamentations 5:3

  We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

• Lamentations 5:4

  We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

• Lamentations 5:5

  Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

• Lamentations 5:6

  We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

• Lamentations 5:7

  Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

• Lamentations 5:8

  Servants rule over us: There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

• Lamentations 5:9

  We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

• Lamentations 5:10

  Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

• Lamentations 5:11

  They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

• Lamentations 5:12

  Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

• Lamentations 5:13

  The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.

• Lamentations 5:14

  The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

• Lamentations 5:15

  The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

• Lamentations 5:16

  The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.

• Lamentations 5:17

  For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

• Lamentations 5:18

  For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.

• Lamentations 5:19

  You, Yahweh, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.

• Lamentations 5:20

  Why do you forget us forever, And forsake us so long time?

• Lamentations 5:21

  Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.

• Lamentations 5:22

  But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.

• Hebrews 11:24

  By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

• Hebrews 11:25

  choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;

• Hebrews 11:26

  accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.