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  • Isaiah 53:12
    Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
    And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,
    Because He poured out His soul unto death,
    And He was numbered with the transgressors,
    And He bore the sin of many,
    And made intercession for the transgressors.
     
  • Amos 4:6-11
    "Also I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities.
    And lack of bread in all your places;
    Yet you have not returned to Me,"
    Says the LORD.
    "I also withheld rain from you,
    When there were still three months to the harvest.
    I made it rain on one city,
    I withheld rain from another city.
    One part was rained upon,
    And where it did not rain the part withered.
    So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water,
    But they were not satisfied;
    Yet you have not returned to Me,"
    Says the LORD.
    "I blasted you with blight and mildew.
    When your gardens increased,
    Your vineyards,
    Your fig trees,
    And your olive trees,
    The locust devoured them;
    Yet you have not returned to Me,"
    Says the LORD.
    "I sent among you a plague after the manner of Egypt;
    Your young men I killed with a sword,
    Along with your captive horses;
    I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils;
    Yet you have not returned to Me,"
    Says the LORD.
    "I overthrew some of you,
    As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    And you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning;
    Yet you have not returned to Me,"
    Says the LORD.

     
  • Genesis 2:15
    Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
     
  • Genesis 3:19
    In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
    Till you return to the ground,
    For out of it you were taken;
    For dust you are,
    And to dust you shall return."
     
  • Genesis 9:19
    These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
     
  • Genesis 31:9
    So God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.
     
  • Genesis 41:35
    And let them gather all the food of those good years that are coming, and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
     
  • Exodus 13:20-22
    So they took their journey from Succoth and camped in Etham at the edge of the wilderness. And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night. He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night from before the people.
     
  • Leviticus 18:25
    For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.
     
  • Leviticus 26:18
    ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
     
  • Numbers 4:3
    from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.
     
  • Numbers 13:18
    and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many;
     
  • Numbers 14:3
    Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”
     
  • Numbers 14:34
    According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection.
     
  • Deuteronomy 29:22-28
    so that the coming generation of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid on it: ‘The whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger and His wrath.’ All nations would say, ‘Why has the LORD done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?’ Then people would say: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt; for they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them. Then the anger of the LORD was aroused against this land, to bring on it every curse that is written in this book. And the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’
     
  • Deuteronomy 30:2-4
    and you return to the LORD your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that the LORD your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the LORD your God has scattered you. If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you.
     
  • 2 Kings 14:25
    He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which He had spoken through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet who was from Gath Hepher.
     
  • 2 Kings 17:7-18
    For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had feared other gods, and had walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. Also the children of Israel secretly did against the LORD their God things that were not right, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from watchtower to fortified city. They set up for themselves sacred pillars and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree. There they burned incense on all the high places, like the nations whom the LORD had carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger, for they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.” Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His prophets, every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.” Nevertheless they would not hear, but stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God. And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed idols, became idolaters, and went after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them that they should not do like them. So they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger. Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone.
     
  • 2 Kings 17:23
    until the LORD removed Israel out of His sight, as He had said by all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day.
     
  • 2 Kings 25:12
    But the captain of the guard left some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers.
     
  • 1 Chronicles 22:2
    So David commanded to gather the aliens who were in the land of Israel; and he appointed masons to cut hewn stones to build the house of God.
     
  • Ezra 1:1-4
    Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying, Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. Who is among you of all His people? May his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel (He is God), which is in Jerusalem. And whoever is left in any place where he dwells, let the men of his place help him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, besides the freewill offerings for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.
     
  • Ezra 3:1
    And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem.
     
  • Ezra 4:24
    Thus the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem ceased, and it was discontinued until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
     
  • Ezra 7:12-14
    Artaxerxes, king of kings, To Ezra the priest, a scribe of the Law of the God of heaven: Perfect peace, and so forth. I issue a decree that all those of the people of Israel and the priests and Levites in my realm, who volunteer to go up to Jerusalem, may go with you. And whereas you are being sent by the king and his seven counselors to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, with regard to the Law of your God which is in your hand;
     
  • Ezra 7:25
    And you, Ezra, according to your God-given wisdom, set magistrates and judges who may judge all the people who are in the region beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach those who do not know them.
     
  • Ezra 9:9
    For we were slaves. Yet our God did not forsake us in our bondage; but He extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to repair the house of our God, to rebuild its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
     
  • Nehemiah 1:3
    And they said to me, "The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates areburned with fire."
     
  • Nehemiah 2:20
    So I answered them, and said to them, "The God of heaven Himself will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build, but you have no heritage or right or memorial in Jerusalem."
     
  • Nehemiah 5:6-7
    And I became very angry when I heard their outcry and these words. After serious thought, I rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, "Each of you is exacting usury from his brother." So I called a great assembly against them.
     
  • Nehemiah 5:9
    Then I said, "What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?
     
  • Nehemiah 7:4
    Now the city was large and spacious, but the people in it were few, and the houses were not rebuilt.
     
  • Nehemiah 10:28
    Now the rest of the people—the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and understanding—
     
  • Nehemiah 10:30-31
    We would not give our daughters as wives to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; if the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and we would forego the seventh year’s produce and the exacting of every debt.
     
  • Nehemiah 13:6
    But during all this I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Then after certain days I obtained leave from the king,
     
  • Nehemiah 13:15
    In those days I saw people in Judah treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them about the day on which they were selling provisions.
     
  • Nehemiah 13:18
    Did not your fathers do thus, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Yet you bring added wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”
     
  • Nehemiah 13:23-24
    In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of one or the other people.
     
  • Nehemiah 13:26
    Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved of his God; and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless pagan women caused even him to sin.
     
  • Ecclesiastes 3:5
    A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones;
    A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;

     
  • Ecclesiastes 12:13
    Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
    Fear God and keep His commandments,
    For this is man's all.

     
  • Isaiah 1:7-9
    Your country is desolate,
    Your cities are burned with fire;
    Strangers devour your land in your presence;
    And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
    So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard,
    As a hut in a garden of cucumbers,
    As a besieged city.
    Unless the LORD of hosts
    Had left to us a very small remnant,
    We would have become like Sodom,
    We would have been made like Gomorrah.

     
  • Isaiah 2:2-4
    Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
    Thatthe mountain of the LORD’s house
    Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
    And shall be exalted above the hills;
    And all nations shall flow to it.
    Many people shall come and say,
    ' Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
    To the house of the God of Jacob;
    He will teach us His ways,
    And we shall walk in His paths.'
    For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
    And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
    He shall judge between the nations,
    And rebuke many people;
    They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
    And their spears into pruning hooks;
    Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    Neither shall they learn war anymore.
     
  • Isaiah 13:19
    And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
    The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride,
    Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

     
  • Isaiah 52:13
    Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently;
    He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high.

     
  • Isaiah 53:1-8
    Who has believed our report?
    And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
    For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
    And as a root out of dry ground.
    He has no form or comeliness;
    And when we see Him,
    There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
    He is despised and rejected by men,
    A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
    And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
    He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
    Surely He has borne our griefs
    And carried our sorrows;
    Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
    Smitten by God, and afflicted.
    But He was wounded for our transgressions,
    He was bruised for our iniquities;
    The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
    And by His stripes we are healed.
    All we like sheep have gone astray;
    We have turned, every one, to his own way;
    And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
    He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
    Yet He opened not His mouth;
    He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
    And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
    So He opened not His mouth.
    He was taken from prison and from judgment,
    And who will declare His generation?
    For He was cut off from the land of the living;
    For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

     
  • Isaiah 55:1-2
    "Ho! Everyone who thirsts,
    Come to the waters;
    And you who have no money,
    Come, buy and eat.
    Yes, come, buy wine and milk
    Without money and without price.
    Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
    And your wages for what does not satisfy?
    Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
    And let your soul delight itself in abundance.

     
  • Isaiah 55:7-11
    Let the wicked forsake his way,
    And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
    Let him return to the LORD,
    And He will have mercy on him;
    And to our God,
    For He will abundantly pardon.
    "For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
    Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD.
    'For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    So are My ways higher than your ways,
    And My thoughts than your thoughts.
    'For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
    And do not return there,
    But water the earth,
    And make it bring forth and bud,
    That it may give seed to the sower
    And bread to the eater,
    So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
    It shall not return to Me void,
    But it shall accomplish what I please,
    And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

     
  • Isaiah 56:1-5
    Thus says the LORD:
    “ Keep justice, and do righteousness,
    For My salvation is about to come,
    And My righteousness to be revealed.
    Blessed is the man who does this,
    And the son of man who lays hold on it;
    Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
    And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
    Do not let the son of the foreigner
    Who has joined himself to the LORD
    Speak, saying,
    “ The LORD has utterly separated me from His people”;
    Nor let the eunuch say,
    “ Here I am, a dry tree.”
    For thus says the LORD:
    “ To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,
    And choose what pleases Me,
    And hold fast My covenant,
    Even to them I will give in My house
    And within My walls a place and a name
    Better than that of sons and daughters;
    I will give them an everlasting name
    That shall not be cut off.

     
  • Jeremiah 31:10
    ' Hear the word of the LORD, O nations,
    And declare it in the isles afar off, and say,
    ' He who scattered Israel will gather him,
    And keep him as a shepherd does his flock.'

     
  • Jeremiah 31:15
    Thus says the LORD:
    ' A voice was heard in Ramah,
    Lamentation and bitter weeping,
    Rachel weeping for her children,
    Refusing to be comforted for her children,
    Because they are no more.'
     
  • Jeremiah 49:18
    As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah
    And their neighbors,” says the LORD,
    “ No one shall remain there,
    Nor shall a son of man dwell in it.

     
  • Jeremiah 50:40
    As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah
    And their neighbors,' says the LORD,
    ' So no one shall reside there,
    Nor son of man dwell in it.

     
  • Ezekiel 4:4-8
    “Lie also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. And when you have completed them, lie again on your right side; then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on you a day for each year. “Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem; your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it. And surely I will restrain you so that you cannot turn from one side to another till you have ended the days of your siege.
     
  • Ezekiel 19:10-14
    ‘ Your mother was like a vine in your bloodline,
    Planted by the waters,
    Fruitful and full of branches
    Because of many waters.
    She had strong branches for scepters of rulers.
    She towered in stature above the thick branches,
    And was seen in her height amid the dense foliage.
    But she was plucked up in fury,
    She was cast down to the ground,
    And the east wind dried her fruit.
    Her strong branches were broken and withered;
    The fire consumed them.
    And now she is planted in the wilderness,
    In a dry and thirsty land.
    Fire has come out from a rod of her branches
    And devoured her fruit,
    So that she has no strong branch— a scepter for ruling.’” This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.
     
  • Ezekiel 34:2-13
    'Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to the shepherds: 'Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock. The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost; but with force and cruelty you have ruled them. So they were scattered because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered. My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill; yes, My flock was scattered over the whole face of the earth, and no one was seeking or searching for them.” ‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD: “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food for every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock”— therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of the LORD! Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require My flock at their hand; I will cause them to cease feeding the sheep, and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more; for I will deliver My flock from their mouths, that they may no longer be food for them.” ‘For thus says the Lord GOD: “Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so will I seek out My sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day. And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land; I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys and in all the inhabited places of the country.
     
  • Daniel 3:19
    Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. He spoke and commanded that they heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
     
  • Daniel 9:7
    O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.
     
  • Hosea 6:1
    Come, and let us return to the LORD;
    For He has torn, but He will heal us;
    He has stricken, but He will bind us up.

     
  • Hosea 14:1-8
    O Israel, return to the LORD your God,
    For you have stumbled because of your iniquity;
    Take words with you,
    And return to the LORD.
    Say to Him,
    “ Take away all iniquity;
    Receive us graciously,
    For we will offer the sacrifices of our lips.
    Assyria shall not save us,
    We will not ride on horses,
    Nor will we say anymore to the work of our hands, ‘You are our gods.’
    For in You the fatherless finds mercy.”
    “ I will heal their backsliding,
    I will love them freely,
    For My anger has turned away from him.
    I will be like the dew to Israel;
    He shall grow like the lily,
    And lengthen his roots like Lebanon.
    His branches shall spread;
    His beauty shall be like an olive tree,
    And his fragrance like Lebanon.
    Those who dwell under his shadow shall return;
    They shall be revived like grain,
    And grow like a vine.
    Their scentshall be like the wine of Lebanon.
    “ Ephraim shall say, ‘What have I to do anymore with idols?’
    I have heard and observed him.
    I am like a green cypress tree;
    Your fruit is found in Me.”

     
  • Amos 2:6-7
    Thus says the LORD:
    " For three transgressions of Israel, and for four,
    I will not turn away its punishment,
    Because they sell the righteous for silver,
    And the poor for a pair of sandals.
    They pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor,
    And pervert the way of the humble.
    A man and his father go in to the same girl,
    To defile My holy name.

     
  • Amos 4:1-3
    Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria,
    Who oppress the poor,
    Who crush the needy,
    Who say to your husbands, "Bring wine, let us drink!"
    The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness:
    "Behold, the days shall come upon you
    When He will take you away with fishhooks,
    And your posterity with fishhooks.
    You will go out through broken walls,
    Each one straight ahead of her,
    And you will be cast into Harmon,"
    Says the LORD.

     
  • Amos 5:4
    For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel:
    "Seek Me and live;

     
  • Amos 5:11
    Therefore, because you tread down the poor
    And take grain taxes from him,
    Though you have built houses of hewn stone,
    Yet you shall not dwell in them;
    You have planted pleasant vineyards,
    But you shall not drink wine from them.

     
  • Amos 6:1
    Woe to you who are at ease in Zion,
    And trust in Mount Samaria,
    Notable persons in the chief nation,
    To whom the house of Israel comes!

     
  • Amos 7:8-9
    And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said:
    "Behold, I am setting a plumb line
    In the midst of My people Israel;
    I will not pass by them anymore.
    The high places of Isaac shall be desolate,
    And the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste.
    I will rise with the sword against the house of Jeroboam."
     
  • Amos 7:14
    Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah:
    "I was no prophet,
    Nor was I a son of a prophet,
    But I was a sheepbreeder
    And a tender of sycamore fruit.

     
  • Amos 9:8
    " Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom,
    And I will destroy it from the face of the earth;
    Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,"
    Says the LORD.

     
  • Obadiah 1:2
    " Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
    You shall be greatly despised.

     
  • Micah 2:2
    They covet fields and take them by violence,
    Also houses, and seize them.
    So they oppress a man and his house,
    A man and his inheritance.
     
  • Micah 3:2
    You who hate good and love evil;
    Who strip the skin from My people,
    And the flesh from their bones;

     
  • Micah 4:1-5
    Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
    That the mountain of the LORD’s house
    Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
    And shall be exalted above the hills;
    And peoples shall flow to it.
    Many nations shall come and say,
    “ Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
    To the house of the God of Jacob;
    He will teach us His ways,
    And we shall walk in His paths.”
    For out of Zion the law shall go forth,
    And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
    He shall judge between many peoples,
    And rebuke strong nations afar off;
    They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
    And their spears into pruning hooks;
    Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    Neither shall they learn war anymore.
    But everyone shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree,
    And no one shall make them afraid;
    For the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.
    For all people walk each in the name of his god,
    But we will walk in the name of the LORD our God
    Forever and ever.
     
  • Micah 5:2
    ' But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
    Though you are little among the thousands of Judah,
    Yet out of you shall come forth to Me
    The One to be Ruler in Israel,
    Whose goings forth are from of old,
    From everlasting.'

     
  • Micah 6:11
    Shall I count pure those with the wicked scales,
    And with the bag of deceitful weights?

     
  • Micah 7:8-13
    Do not rejoice over me, my enemy;
    When I fall, I will arise;
    When I sit in darkness,
    The LORD will be a light to me.
    I will bear the indignation of the LORD,
    Because I have sinned against Him,
    Until He pleads my case
    And executes justice for me.
    He will bring me forth to the light;
    I will see His righteousness.
    Then she who is my enemy will see,
    And shame will cover her who said to me,
    “ Where is the LORD your God?”
    My eyes will see her;
    Now she will be trampled down
    Like mud in the streets.
    In the day when your walls are to be built,
    In that day the decree shall go far and wide.
    In that day they shall come to you
    From Assyria and the fortified cities,
    From the fortress to the River,
    From sea to sea,
    And mountain to mountain.
    Yet the land shall be desolate
    Because of those who dwell in it,
    And for the fruit of their deeds.
     
  • Micah 7:18
    Who is a God like You,
    Pardoning iniquity
    And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage?
    He does not retain His anger forever,
    Because He delights in mercy.

     
  • Zephaniah 3:18-20
    “ I will gather those who sorrow over the appointed assembly,
    Who are among you,
    To whom its reproach is a burden.
    Behold, at that time
    I will deal with all who afflict you;
    I will save the lame,
    And gather those who were driven out;
    I will appoint them for praise and fame
    In every land where they were put to shame.
    At that time I will bring you back,
    Even at the time I gather you;
    For I will give you fame and praise
    Among all the peoples of the earth,
    When I return your captives before your eyes,”
    Says the LORD.
     
  • Haggai 1:2
    “Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying: ‘This people says, “The time has not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built.”’”
     
  • Zechariah 14:5
    Then you shall flee through My mountain valley,
    For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal.
    Yes, you shall flee
    As you fled from the earthquake
    In the days of Uzziah king of Judah.
    Thus the LORD my God will come,
    And all the saints with You.

     
  • Matthew 2:6
    ‘ But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
    Are not the least among the rulers of Judah;
    For out of you shall come a Ruler
    Who will shepherd My people Israel.’
     
  • Matthew 2:13
    Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.”
     
  • Matthew 12:30
    He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.
     
  • Matthew 12:40
    For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
     
  • Matthew 15:24
    But He answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
     
  • Matthew 22:7
    But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
     
  • Matthew 23:37
    'O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
     
  • Luke 11:23
    He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.
     
  • Luke 19:10
    for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.'
     
  • Luke 22:37
    For I say to you that this which is written must still be accomplished in Me: "And He was numbered with the transgressors." For the things concerning Me have an end."
     
  • John 1:11
    He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
     
  • John 4:9
    Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
     
  • John 10:4
    And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
     
  • John 13:8
    Peter said to Him, "You shall never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me."
     
  • Acts 1:8
    But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
     
  • Acts 8:1-40
    Now Saul was consenting to his death. At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison. Therefore those who were scattered went everywhere preaching the word. Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed. And there was great joy in that city. But there was a certain man called Simon, who previously practiced sorcery in the city and astonished the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great, to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the great power of God.” And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorceries for a long time. But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized. Then Simon himself also believed; and when he was baptized he continued with Philip, and was amazed, seeing the miracles and signs which were done. Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. For as yet He had fallen upon none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, saying, “Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.” But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money! You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God. Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.” Then Simon answered and said, “Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have spoken may come upon me.” So when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans. Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is desert. So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship, was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet. Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go near and overtake this chariot.” So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?” And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him. The place in the Scripture which he read was this:
    “ He was led as a sheep to the slaughter;
    And as a lamb before its shearer is silent,
    So He opened not His mouth.
    In His humiliation His justice was taken away,
    And who will declare His generation?
    For His life is taken from the earth.” So the eunuch answered Philip and said, “I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself or of some other man?” Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him. Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?” Then Philip said, 'If you believe with all your heart, you may.' And he answered and said, 'I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.' So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him. Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing. But Philip was found at Azotus. And passing through, he preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea.
     
  • Acts 21:8-9
    On the next day we who were Paul's companions departed and came to Caesarea, and entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him. Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.
     
  • Acts 23:6-8
    But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!” And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and the assembly was divided. For Sadducees say that there is no resurrection—and no angel or spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.
     
  • Acts 23:10
    Now when there arose a great dissension, the commander, fearing lest Paul might be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.
     
  • Romans 1:16
    For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
     
  • Romans 8:28
    And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
     
  • Romans 11:33
    Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

     
  • Romans 15:7-13
    Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God. Now I say that Jesus Christ has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers, and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written:
    ' For this reason I will confess to You among the Gentiles,
    And sing to Your name.' And again he says:
    “ Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people!”
    And again:
    “ Praise the LORD, all you Gentiles!
    Laud Him, all you peoples!” And again, Isaiah says:
    “ There shall be a root of Jesse;
    And He who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles,
    In Him the Gentiles shall hope.” Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
     
  • Galatians 6:16
    And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
     
  • Ephesians 2:6
    and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
     
  • Ephesians 4:11-12
    And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
     
  • Hebrews 12:22
    But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,
     
  • James 1:1
    James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings.
     
  • Revelation 21:12
    Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
     
  • Revelation 21:27
    But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
     
  • Revelation 22:20
    He who testifies to these things says, 'Surely I am coming quickly.' Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!