'Nations' in the Bible

And the sons of Israel, those returning from the captivity, and every one who is separated from the uncleanness of the nations of the land unto them, to seek to Jehovah, God of Israel, do eat,

and say to them, 'We have acquired our brethren the Jews, those sold to the nations, according to the ability that is in us, and ye also sell your brethren, and they have been sold to us!' and they are silent, and have not found a word.

And I say, 'Not good is the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

and of the Jews, and of the prefects, a hundred and fifty men, and those coming in unto us of the nations that are round about us, are at my table;

it is written in it, 'Among the nations it hath been heard, and Gashmu is saying: Thou and the Jews are thinking to rebel, therefore thou art building the wall, and thou hast been to them for a king -- according to these words!

and it cometh to pass, when all our enemies have heard, and all the nations who are round about us see, that they fall greatly in their own eyes, and know that by our God hath this work been done.

By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? and among the many nations there was no king like him, and beloved by his God he was, and God maketh him king over all Israel -- even him did the strange women cause to sin.

Magnifying the nations, and He destroyeth them, Spreading out the nations, and He quieteth them.

Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?

Ask of Me and I give nations -- thy inheritance, And thy possession -- the ends of earth.

Thou hast rebuked nations, Thou hast destroyed the wicked, Their name Thou hast blotted out to the age and for ever.

Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.

The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.

Rise, O Jehovah, let not man be strong, Let nations be judged before Thy face.

Appoint, O Jehovah, a director to them, Let nations know they are men! Selah.

Jehovah is king to the age, and for ever, The nations have perished out of His land!

Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of the people, Thou placest me for a head of nations, A people I have not known do serve me.

Therefore I confess Thee among nations, O Jehovah, And to Thy name I sing praise,

Remember and return unto Jehovah, Do all ends of the earth, And before Thee bow themselves, Do all families of the nations,

For to Jehovah is the kingdom, And He is ruling among nations.

Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.

Thou, with Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.

Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.

Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.

Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.

Desist, and know that I am God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.

He leadeth peoples under us, and nations under our feet.

God hath reigned over nations, God hath sat on His holy throne,

I thank Thee among the peoples, O Lord, I praise Thee among the nations.

And Thou, Jehovah, God of Hosts, God of Israel, Awake to inspect all the nations. Favour not any treacherous dealers of iniquity. Selah.

And Thou, O Jehovah dost laugh at them, Thou dost mock at all the nations.

Ruling by His might to the age, His eyes among the nations do watch, The refractory exalt not themselves. Selah.

For the knowledge in earth of Thy way, among all nations of Thy salvation.

Rejoice and sing do nations, For Thou judgest peoples uprightly, And peoples on earth comfortest. Selah.

And all kings do bow themselves to him, All nations do serve him,

His name is to the age, Before the sun is his name continued, And they bless themselves in him, All nations do pronounce him happy.

And casteth out nations from before them, And causeth them to fall in the line of inheritance, And causeth the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents,

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into Thy inheritance, They have defiled Thy holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps,

Pour Thy fury on the nations who have not known Thee, And on kingdoms that have not called in Thy name.

Why do the nations say, 'Where is their God?' Let be known among the nations before our eyes, The vengeance of the blood of Thy servants that is shed.

A vine out of Egypt Thou dost bring, Thou dost cast out nations, and plantest it.

Rise, O God, judge the earth, For Thou hast inheritance among all the nations!

All nations that Thou hast made Come and bow themselves before Thee, O Lord, And give honour to Thy name.

He who is instructing nations, Doth He not reprove? He who is teaching man knowledge is Jehovah.

Declare among nations His honour, Among all the peoples His wonders.

Say among nations, 'Jehovah hath reigned, Also -- established is the world, unmoved, He judgeth the peoples in uprightness.'

Jehovah hath made known His salvation, Before the eyes of the nations, He hath revealed His righteousness,

And nations fear the name of Jehovah, And all kings of the earth Thine honour,

And He giveth to them the lands of nations, And the labour of peoples they possess,

And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands.

And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,

And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them,

Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from the nations, To give thanks to Thy holy name, To glory in Thy praise.

I thank Thee among peoples, O Jehovah, And I praise Thee among the nations.

He doth judge among the nations, He hath completed the carcases, Hath smitten the head over the mighty earth.

The power of His works He hath declared to His people, To give to them the inheritance of nations.

High above all nations is Jehovah, Above the heavens is his honour.

Why do the nations say, 'Where, pray, is their God.

Praise Jehovah, all ye nations, Glorify Him, all ye peoples.

All nations have compassed me about, In the name of Jehovah I surely cut them off.

Then filled with laughter is our mouth, And our tongue with singing, Then do they say among nations, 'Jehovah did great things with these.'

Who smote many nations, and slew strong kings,

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, Work of the hands of man.

To do vengeance among nations, Punishments among the peoples.

Whoso is saying to the wicked, 'Thou art righteous,' Peoples execrate him -- nations abhor him.

And it hath come to pass, In the latter end of the days, Established is the mount of Jehovah's house, Above the top of the mounts, And it hath been lifted up above the heights, And flowed unto it have all the nations.

And He hath judged between the nations, And hath given a decision to many peoples, And they have beat their swords to ploughshares, And their spears to pruning-hooks, Nation doth not lift up sword unto nation, Nor do they learn any more -- war.

And He lifted up an ensign to nations afar off, And hissed to it from the end of the earth, And lo, with haste, swift it cometh.

Be friends, O nations, and be broken, And give ear, all ye far off ones of earth, Gird yourselves, and be broken, Gird yourselves, and be broken.

As the former time made light The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, So the latter hath honoured the way of the sea, Beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

And he -- he thinketh not so, And his heart reckoneth not so, For -- to destroy is in his heart, And to cut off nations not a few.

And there hath been, in that day, A root of Jesse that is standing for an ensign of peoples, Unto him do nations seek, And his rest hath been -- honour!

And He hath lifted up an ensign to nations, And gathereth the driven away of Israel, And the scattered of Judah He assembleth, From the four wings of the earth.

A voice of a multitude in the mountains, A likeness of a numerous people, A voice of noise from the kingdoms of nations who are gathered, Jehovah of Hosts inspecting a host of battle!

He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint!

Sheol beneath hath been troubled at thee, To meet thy coming in, It is waking up for thee Rephaim, All chiefs ones of earth, It hath raised up from their thrones All kings of nations.

How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.

All kings of nations -- all of them, Have lain down in honour, each in his house,

This is the counsel that is counselled for all the earth, And this is the hand that is stretched out for all the nations.

Because fields of Heshbon languish, The vine of Sibmah, Lords of nations did beat her choice vines, Unto Jazer they have come, They have wandered in a wilderness, Her plants have spread themselves, They have passed over a sea.

Woe to the multitude of many peoples, As the sounding of seas they sound; And to the wasting of nations, As the wasting of mighty waters they are wasted.

Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.

And in many waters is the seed of Sihor, The harvest of the brook is her increase, And she is a mart of nations.

Therefore honour Thee do a strong people, A city of the terrible nations feareth Thee.

And swallowed up hath He in this mountain The face of the wrapping that is wrapped over all the peoples, And of the covering that is spread over all the nations.

And as a dream, a vision of night, hath been The multitude of all the nations Who are warring against Ariel, And all its warriors, and its bulwark, Even of those distressing her.

And it hath been, as when the hungry dreameth, And lo, he is eating, And he hath waked, and empty is his soul, And as when the thirsty dreameth, And lo, he is drinking, and he hath waked, And lo, he is weary, and his soul is longing, So is the multitude of all the nations Who are warring against mount Zion.

And His breath is as an overflowing stream, Unto the neck it divideth, To sift nations with a sieve of vanity, And a bridle causing to err, Is on the jaws of the peoples.

From the voice of a multitude fled have peoples, From thine exaltation scattered have been nations.

Come near, ye nations, to hear, And ye peoples, give attention, Hear doth the earth and its fulness, The world, and all its productions.

For wrath is to Jehovah against all the nations, And fury against all their host, He hath devoted them to destruction, He hath given them to slaughter.

lest Hezekiah doth persuade you, saying, Jehovah doth deliver us. 'Have the gods of the nations delivered each his land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?

Did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed -- Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who are in Telassar?

Lo, nations as a drop from a bucket, And as small dust of the balance, have been reckoned, Lo, isles as a small thing He taketh up.

All the nations are as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.

Who stirred up from the east a righteous one? He calleth him to His foot, He giveth before him nations, And kings He causeth him to rule, He giveth them as dust to his sword, As driven stubble to his bow.

Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one -- My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth.

I, Jehovah, did call thee in righteousness, And I lay hold on thy hand, and keep thee, And I give thee for a covenant of a people, And a light of nations.

All the nations have been gathered together, And the peoples are assembled, Who among them declareth this, And former things causeth us to hear? They give their witnesses, And they are declared righteous, And they hear and say, 'Truth.'

Thus said Jehovah, To His anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have laid hold on, To subdue nations before him, Yea, loins of kings I loose, To open before him two-leaved doors, Yea, gates are not shut: