Bible Verses About Patriotism

Pray for the peace of Ierusalem: let them prosper that loue thee.

Peace be within thy walles, and prosperitie within thy palaces.

The Lord out of Zion shall blesse thee, and thou shalt see the wealth of Ierusalem all the dayes of thy life.

Yea, thou shalt see thy childrens children, and peace vpon Israel.

By the riuers of Babel we sate, and there wee wept, when we remembred Zion.

Wee hanged our harpes vpon the willowes in the middes thereof.

Then they that ledde vs captiues, required of vs songs and mirth, when wee had hanged vp our harpes, saying, Sing vs one of the songs of Zion.

Howe shall we sing, said we, a song of the Lord in a strange land?

If I forget thee, O Ierusalem, let my right hand forget to play.

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth: yea, if I preferre not Ierusalem to my chiefe ioy.

For Zions sake I will not holde my tongue, and for Ierusalems sake I wil not rest, vntil the righteousnes thereof breake foorth as the light, and saluation thereof as a burning lampe.

For they haue healed the hurt of the daughter of my people with sweete woordes, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.

I am sore vexed for the hurt of ye daughter of my people: I am heauie, and astonishment hath taken me.

Is there no balme at Gilead? is there no Physition there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recouered.

Oh, that mine head were full of water and mine eyes a fountaine of teares, that I might weepe day and night for the slayne of the daughter of my people.

Oh, that I had in the wildernes a cottage of wayfaring men, that I might leaue my people, and go from them: for they be all adulterers and an assembly of rebels,

Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.

Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.

We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.

Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.

Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.

We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

Our fathers haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.

Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.

Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.