See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.
Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
The Lord has said, See, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.
And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.
Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.
I will give your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah for a price, and they will give them for a price to the men of Sheba, a nation far off: for the Lord has said it.
If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.
You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.
He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation;
And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world.
Pilate said, Am I a Jew? Your nation and the chief priests have given you into my hands: what have you done?
And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day.
And the priests who took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord kept their places, with their feet on dry land in the middle of Jordan, while all Israel went over on dry land, till all the nation had gone over Jordan.
Now when all the nation had come to the other side of Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua,
For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
So when all the nation had undergone circumcision, they kept in their tents till they were well again.
And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has not been true to my agreement which I made with their fathers, and has not given ear to my voice;
Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.
And anyone who takes as food anything which has come to a natural end, or anything which has been put to death by beasts, if he is one of you by birth, or of another nation, will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening, and then he will be clean.
Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or of another nation living in Israel, makes an offering, given because of an oath or freely given to the Lord for a burned offering;
And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.
You are to have the same law for a man of another nation living among you as for an Israelite; for I am the Lord your God.
And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family;
Then he said to them, Nation will be moved against nation and kingdom against kingdom:
And they made statements against him, saying, This man has to our knowledge been teaching our nation to do wrong, and not to make payment of taxes to Caesar, even saying that he himself is Christ, a king.
It is right for you to do this for him, because he is a friend to our nation, and himself has put up a Synagogue for us.
You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.
Nation will go to war with nation, and kingdom with kingdom: there will be earth-shocks in different places; there will be times when there is no food; these things are the first of the troubles.
For this reason I say to you, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.
For nation will be moved against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and men will be without food, and the earth will be shaking in different places;
And I will make her whose steps were uncertain a small band, and her who was feeble a strong nation: and the Lord will be their King in Mount Zion from now and for ever.
I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
But the person who does wrong in the pride of his heart, if he is one of you or of another nation by birth, is acting without respect for the Lord, and will be cut off from his people.
And if a man from another country is among you and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let him do as is ordered in the law of the Passover: there is to be the same rule for the man from another nation and for him who had his birth in the land.
Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:
By righteousness a nation is lifted up, but sin is a cause of shame to the peoples.
When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people.
So that I may see the well-being of the people of your selection, and have a part in the joy of your nation, and take pride in your heritage.
Happy is the nation whose ways are so ordered: yes, happy is the nation whose God is the Lord.
He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.
Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.
Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.
They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.
And it was given to him to make war on the saints and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and language and nation.
And I saw another angel in flight between heaven and earth, having eternal good news to give to those who are on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and language and people,
And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,
After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,
But I say, Had Israel no knowledge? First Moses says, You will be moved to envy by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish people I will make you angry.
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