People

Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—

They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.

Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?

For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.

For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,

For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

Let this be written for the generation to come, so that a people not yet created may praise the LORD.

He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel.

And the LORD made His people very fruitful, more numerous than their foes,

…whose hearts He turned to hate His people, to conspire against His servants.

He brought forth His people with rejoicing, His chosen with shouts of joy.

Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people; visit me with Your salvation,

So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!

Let them exalt Him in the assembly of the people and praise Him in the council of the elders.

Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.

He has shown His people the power of His works by giving them the inheritance of the nations.

He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name.

…to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.

When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,

I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all His people.

I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all His people,

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.

He gave their land as an inheritance, as a heritage to His people Israel.

For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.

He led His people through the wilderness. His loving devotion endures forever.

When their rulers are thrown down from the cliffs, the people will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.

Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.

Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.

He has raised up a horn for His people, the praise of all His saints, of Israel, a people near to Him. Hallelujah!

He has raised up a horn for His people, the praise of all His saints, of Israel, a people near to Him. Hallelujah!

For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation.

The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.

When the wicked come to power, people hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous flourish.

When the righteous flourish, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

When the righteous flourish, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but blessed is he who keeps the Law.

There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs.

Before I realized it, my desire had set me among the royal chariots of my people.

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.

On that day he will cry aloud: “I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!”

Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.

Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.

The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people.

The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”

And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’

Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.

For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.

The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”

“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:

“Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.

When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.

You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.

All the people will know it—Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say:

But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.

For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.

By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.

…to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, who strikes you with a rod and lifts his staff against you as the Egyptians did.

Madmenah flees; the people of Gebim take refuge.

On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

There will be a highway for the remnant of His people who remain from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.

Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.

You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.

I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”

What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”

And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”

…which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.

…which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.

All you people of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it; when a ram’s horn sounds, you will hear it.

At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.

At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.

The LORD of Hosts will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt My people, Assyria My handiwork, and Israel My inheritance.”

O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.

Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.

…people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.

Therefore, a strong people will honor You. The cities of ruthless nations will revere You.

He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.

My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!

Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.