'Nation' in the Bible

Has a nation ever changed gods when they aren't even gods? But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit.

"Should I not punish them for these things?" asks the LORD, "And on a nation like this, should I not seek retribution?"

People of Israel, I'm now bringing a nation from far away to attack you," declares the LORD. "It is an enduring nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don't know. And you won't understand what they say.

"Should I not punish them for this?' asks the LORD. "Should I not avenge myself on a nation like this?'

This is what the LORD says: "Look, people are coming from a northern country. A great nation is stirring from the ends of the earth.

You will say to them, "This is the nation that wouldn't listen to the voice of the LORD its God and wouldn't accept correction. Truth has perished; it has been eliminated from their discussions.'

Should I not punish them for these things?" asks the LORD, "and should I not avenge myself on a nation like this?"

But if they don't listen, then I'll completely uproot that nation and destroy it," declares the LORD.

At one moment I may speak about a nation or a kingdom to uproot it, pull it down, or destroy it.

But if that nation about which I spoke turns from its evil way, I'll change my mind about the disaster that I had planned for it.

At another moment I may speak about a nation or kingdom to build it or plant it.

But if that nation does evil in my eyes by not obeying me, I'll change my mind about the good that I said I would bring on it.

"Then when the seventy years have passed, I'll judge the king of Babylon and that nation, declares the LORD, I'll judge the land of the Chaldeans for their iniquity and I'll make it a desolation forever.

"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Look, disaster is going from nation to nation, a great storm is being stirred up from the most distant parts of the earth.

If a nation and kingdom does not serve him King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and does not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I'll judge that nation with the sword, with famine, and with plague," declares the LORD, "until I've completely destroyed it by his hand.

But I'll let the nation that brings its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him remain in its own land," declares the LORD, "and they'll work it and remain in it."'"

Why should you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by plague as the LORD has decreed about the nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?

"If these laws cease to function in my presence," declares the LORD, "then the descendants of Israel will cease to be a nation in my presence for all time!"

"Haven't you noticed what these people have been saying? "The LORD rejected the two families that he had chosen!' They have contempt for my people and no longer consider them a nation.

The pride of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they plotted evil against her: "Come and let's eliminate her as a nation.' Madmen will also be silenced, and the sword will pursue you.

Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he exalted himself against the LORD.

"Arise, go up against a nation at ease, living securely," declares the LORD, "without gates or bars, living alone.

I'll bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I'll scatter them to all these winds. There will be no nation to which the exiles from Elam won't go.

For a nation from the north will go up against her. It will make her land into an object of horror, and no one will live in it. Both people and animals will wander off, and they'll leave.

"Look, people are coming from the north. A great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the ends of the earth.