Bible Verses About Nation

The mountains bear peace to the people, And the heights by righteousness.

Flourish in his days doth the righteous, And abundance of peace till the moon is not.

To the Overseer. --By sons of Korah. A Psalm. Thou hast accepted, O Jehovah, Thy land, Thou hast turned to the captivity of Jacob.

Thou hast borne away the iniquity of Thy people, Thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

Thou hast gathered up all Thy wrath, Thou hast turned back from the fierceness of Thine anger.

Turn back to us, O God of our salvation, And make void Thine anger with us.

To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?

Dost Thou not turn back? Thou revivest us, And Thy people do rejoice in Thee.

Show us, O Jehovah, thy kindness, And Thy salvation Thou dost give to us.

O the happiness of the people knowing the shout, O Jehovah, in the light of Thy face they walk habitually.

In Thy name they rejoice all the day, And in Thy righteousness they are exalted,

For the beauty of their strength art Thou, And in Thy good will is our horn exalted,

For of Jehovah is our shield, And of the Holy One of Israel our king.

And see the sons of thy sons! Peace on Israel!

For He did strengthen the bars of thy gates, He hath blessed thy sons in thy midst.

Who is making thy border peace, With the fat of wheat He satisfieth Thee.

Righteousness exalteth a nation, And the goodliness of peoples is a sin-offering.

A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.

And He hath judged between the nations, And hath given a decision to many peoples, And they have beat their swords to ploughshares, And their spears to pruning-hooks, Nation doth not lift up sword unto nation, Nor do they learn any more--war.

That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,

Ceased hath the golden one. Broken hath Jehovah the staff of the wicked, The sceptre of rulers.

He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint!

At rest--quiet hath been all the earth, They have broken forth into singing.

This is the counsel that is counselled for all the earth, And this is the hand that is stretched out for all the nations.

For Jehovah of Hosts hath purposed, And who doth make void? And His hand that is stretched out, Who doth turn it back?'