'Nations' in the Bible

Which you have made ready before the face of all nations;

a light to the uncovering of nations, and the glory of Thy people Israel.'

For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

for he shall be delivered up to the nations, and shall be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon,

And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

And he said to them, 'The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors;

And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.