Bible Verses About Nation

Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.

Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.

A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.

Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that trusteth in thee.

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day.

Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul.

For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.

Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my petition.

I have called upon thee in the day of my trouble: because thou hast heard me.

We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for the years in which we have seen evils.

Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their children.

And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.

For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up:

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.

Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable.

A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.

And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more to war.

Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased?

The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of the rulers,

That struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, that brought nations under in fury, that persecuted in a cruel manner.

The whole earth is quiet and still, it is glad and hath rejoiced.

This is the counsel, that I have purposed upon all the earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all nations.

For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul it? and his hand is stretched out: and who shall turn it away?