'My People' in the Bible

The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.

As for my people, children are their taskmasters, and women rule over them. Oh my people, your rulers cause you to go astray and destroy the way of your paths.

What do you mean? You crush My people and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts.

For this My people go into exile without knowledge, and their honorable men into famine, and his multitude is dried up with thirst.

to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to steal the right from the poor of My people, that widows may be their prey, and they rob the orphans!

Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts, O my people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria. He shall strike you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, in the way of Egypt.

whom Jehovah of Hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be My people Egypt, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.

Therefore I said, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly; do not hurry to comfort me because of the ruin of the daughter of my people.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms and shut your doors around you; hide for a little moment, until the fury has passed by.

On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city;

And my people shall dwell in a peaceable home, and in secure dwellings and quiet resting places.

Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God.

The beasts of the field shall honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen.

I was angry with My people, I have polluted My inheritance, and given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; you have very heavily laid your yoke on the aged.

Listen to Me, My people; and give ear to Me, O My nation; for a law shall go out from Me, and I will make My judgment to rest for a light of peoples.

And I have put My Words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of My hand, that I may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, You are My people.

For so says the Lord Jehovah, My people went down before into Egypt to stay there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

Now therefore, what have I here, says Jehovah, that My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule make them howl, says Jehovah; and without ceasing My name is blasphemed every day.

Therefore My people shall know My name; So it shall be in that day, for I am He who speaks; behold, it is I.

He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who shall declare His generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of My people He was stricken.

And He shall say, Raise up! Raise up! Clear the way! Make the stumbling-block rise out of the way of My people.

Cry aloud, do not spare, lift up your voice like a ram's horn, and show My people their rebellion, and the house of Jacob their sins.

For He said, Surely they are My people, sons that will not lie; so He was their Savior.

And Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting-place of herds for My people who have sought Me.

I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and I will rejoice in My people; and the voice of weeping will no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying be heard in her.

They will not build, and another live in them; they will not plant, and another eat. For like the days of a tree are the days of My people, and My elect will long enjoy the work of their hands.