TOPICAL BIBLE
Nation
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Nehemiah 1:9but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’Nehemiah 1:10They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.Nehemiah 1:11O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)Job 34:29But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,Psalm 9:17The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.Psalm 29:11The LORD gives His people strength; the LORD blesses His people with peace.Psalm 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!Psalm 46:9He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire.Psalm 72:3May the mountains bring peace to the people, and the hills bring righteousness.Psalm 72:7May the righteous flourish in his days and prosperity abound until the moon is no more.Psalm 85:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. You showed favor to Your land, O LORD; You restored Jacob from captivity.Psalm 85:2You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. SelahPsalm 85:3You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.Psalm 85:4Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.Psalm 85:5Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?Psalm 85:6Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?Psalm 85:7Show us Your loving devotion, O LORD, and grant us Your salvation.Psalm 89:15Blessed are those who know the joyful sound, who walk, O LORD, in the light of Your presence.Psalm 89:16They rejoice in Your name all day long, and in Your righteousness they exult.Psalm 89:17For You are the glory of their strength, and by Your favor our horn is exalted.Psalm 89:18Surely our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.Psalm 128:6that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!Psalm 147:13For He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses the children within you.Psalm 147:14He makes peace at your borders; He fills you with the finest wheat.Proverbs 14:34Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.Ecclesiastes 3:8a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.Isaiah 2:4Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.Isaiah 14:4you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!Isaiah 14:5The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.Isaiah 14:6It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.Isaiah 14:7All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song.Isaiah 14:26This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.Isaiah 14:27The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?Isaiah 30:1“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.Isaiah 30:2They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade.Isaiah 45:7I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.Isaiah 60:12For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly destroyed.Isaiah 60:17Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.Isaiah 60:18No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.Isaiah 65:25The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.Jeremiah 5:29Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?Jeremiah 6:14They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.Jeremiah 8:11They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.Jeremiah 18:6“O house of Israel, declares the LORD, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.Jeremiah 18:7At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.Jeremiah 18:8But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.Jeremiah 18:9And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,Jeremiah 18:10and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.Jeremiah 25:12But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.Jeremiah 25:13I will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.Jeremiah 25:14For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”Jeremiah 25:15This is what 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 from it.Jeremiah 25:16And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”Jeremiah 25:17So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,Jeremiah 25:18to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;Jeremiah 25:19Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officials, his leaders, and all his people;Jeremiah 25:20all the mixed tribes; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;Jeremiah 25:21Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;Jeremiah 25:22all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;Jeremiah 25:23Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;