Bible Verses About Nation

The word of ADONAI that came to Yo'el the son of P'tu'el:

"Hear this, you leaders! Listen, all who live in the land! Has anything like this ever happened in your days, or in your ancestors' days?

Tell your children about it, and have them tell it to theirs, and have them tell the next generation.

What the cutter-worms left, the locusts ate; what the locusts left, the grasshoppers ate; what the grasshoppers left, the shearer-worms ate.

Wake up, drunkards, and weep! wail, all you who drink wine, because the juice of the grape will be withheld from your mouth.

For a mighty and numberless nation has invaded my land. His teeth are lion's teeth; his fangs are those of a lioness.

He has reduced my vines to waste, my fig trees to splinters - he plucked them bare, stripped their bark and left their branches white."

Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

Grain offering and drink offering are cut off from the house of ADONAI. The cohanim are mourning, those who are serving ADONAI.

The fields are ruined, the ground is grieving; for the grain is ruined, the new wine dried up, and the olive oil is wretched.

Despair, you farmers; lament, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley - the harvest from the fields is lost.

The vines have withered, the fig trees wilted, also the pomegranate, date-palm and apple tree - all the trees in the fields have withered, and the people's joy has withered away.

Cohanim, put on sackcloth, and weep! Wail, you who serve at the altar! Come, lie in sackcloth all night long, you who serve my God! For the grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Proclaim a holy fast, call for a solemn assembly, gather the leaders and all who live in the land to the house of ADONAI your God, and cry out to ADONAI,

"Oh no! The Day! The Day of ADONAI is upon us! As destruction from Shaddai it is coming!

The food is cut off before our very eyes, also joy and gladness from the house of our God.

The seed-grain is rotting in its furrows; the granaries are deserted, the barns in ruins; because the grain has withered.

How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture. The flocks of sheep bear the punishment, too.

ADONAI, I cry out to you! For the fire has consumed the pastures in the desert, and the flame set ablaze all the trees in the fields.

Even the wild animals come to you, panting, because the streambeds have dried up, and fire has consumed the pastures in the desert."

"For when I give the order, I will shake the house of Isra'el, there among all the Goyim, as one shakes with a sieve, letting no grain fall to the ground.

He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for many nations far away. Then they will hammer their swords into plow-blades and their spears into pruning-knives; nations will not raise swords at each other, and they will no longer learn war.

Instead, each person will sit under his vine and fig tree, with no one to upset him, for the mouth of ADONAI-Tzva'ot has spoken.

"I have cut off nations, their battlements are ruined; I have made their streets ruins, no one walks in them. Their cities are destroyed, abandoned, unpeopled.

Therefore, wait for me," says ADONAI, "for the day when I rise to witness against you, when I decide to assemble nations, to gather kingdoms together, to pour on them my indignation, all my furious anger; for all the earth will be consumed in the fire of my passion.