'People' in the Bible

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, because he will speak peace to his people, even his faithful [ones], but let them not return to folly.

Blessed [are] the people who know [the] joyful shout; O Yahweh, they walk about in the light of your countenance.

Formerly you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones, and said, "I have bestowed help on a mighty man; I have exalted one chosen from [the] people.

They crush your people, O Yahweh; they oppress your inheritance.

You pay attention, O brutes among the people. And [you] fools, when you will show insight?

For Yahweh will not abandon his people, nor forsake his inheritance.

For he [is] our God, and we [are] the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. {Today} if you will hear his voice:

For forty years I loathed [that] generation, and said, '[They are] a people [whose] heart wanders. And my ways they do not know.'

Know that Yahweh, he [is] God; he made us and we are his. [We are] his people and the sheep of his pasture.

Let this be written for [the] next generation, so that a people [yet] to be created may praise Yah,

[who] made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the {people} of Israel.

and they wandered about {among the nations}, from [one] kingdom to another people,

And he made his people very fruitful. He also made them stronger than their enemies.

He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal deceitfully against his servants.

And [so] he brought out his people with joy, his chosen ones with rejoicing.

Remember me, O Yahweh, when [you show] favor to your people. Look after me when you deliver,

So Yahweh's anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance.

Blessed [is] Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise Yah.

and let them exalt him in [the] congregation of [the] people, and praise him in [the] assembly of [the] elders.

Your people {will volunteer} in the day of your power. In holy splendor, from [the] womb of [the] dawn, you will have the dew of your youth.

He has declared the power of his works for his people, by giving to them [the] inheritance of [the] nations.

He has sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever; holy and fearful [is] his name.

to seat [them] with princes, with the princes of his people.

When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of a strange language,

I will pay my vows [made] to Yahweh in the presence of all his people.

I will pay my vows [made] to Yahweh in the presence of all his people,

Streams of water flow down [from] my eyes, because [people] do not heed your law.

[As] mountains [are] round about Jerusalem, so Yahweh [is] round about his people, from now until forever.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great [things] for these [people]."

and he gave their land as an inheritance, an inheritance for his people Israel.

for Yahweh will plead [the] cause [of] his people and will have compassion on his servants.

To [him who] led his people through the wilderness, for his loyal love [endures] forever.

Blessed [are] the people who have [it] thus. Blessed [are] the people whose God [is] Yahweh.

And he has raised high a horn for his people, praise for all his faithful-- for the children of Israel, a people close to him. Praise Yah.

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people; he glorifies [the] afflicted with salvation.

[People] do not despise a thief when he steals to fill himself when he is hungry.

"To you, O {people}, I call, and my cry is to the children of humankind.

He who withholds grain, the people curse him, but a blessing [is] for the head of him who sells.

In the multitude of people is the glory of the king, but without a population, a prince [is] ruined.

Righteousness will exalt a nation, but sin [is] a reproach to a people.

Whoever says to the guilty, "You are righteous," the people will curse him; the nations will abhor him.

[Like] a roaring lion and a charging bear [is] a wicked ruler over a poor people.

When the righteous are numerous, the people will rejoice, but when the wicked are ruling, people will groan.

When there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint, but as for he who guards instruction, happiness [is] his.

The ants [are] a people [who are] not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer;

the badgers [are] a people [who are] not mighty, yet they set their house on the rock;

There is no end to all the people, to all who were before him. Yet the later generation will not rejoice in him, for this also [is] vanity and chasing wind!

Do not pay attention to everything people say, lest you hear your own servant curse you.

[There was] a small city with few people in it. A great king came and besieged it, building great siege works against it.

The Teacher was full of wisdom, and he taught the people with knowledge. He carefully considered many proverbs and carefully arranged them.

I did not know my {heart} set me [in] a chariot of my princely people.

{Solomon had a vineyard} at Baal-hamon; {he entrusted his vineyard to the keepers}; {people paid a thousand silver [pieces] for its fruit}.

An ox knows its owner and a donkey the manger of its master. Israel does not know; my people do not understand.

Ah, sinful nation, a people heavy [with] iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly. They have forsaken Yahweh; they have despised the holy one of Israel. They are estranged [and gone] backward.

Hear the word of Yahweh, rulers of Sodom! Listen [to] the teaching of our God, people of Gomorrah!

For you have forsaken your people, house of Jacob, because they are full from [the] east, and [of] soothsayers like the Philistines, and {they make alliances} with the offspring of foreigners.

And the haughtiness of the people shall be humbled, and the pride of everyone shall be brought low, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day.

And the people will be oppressed {by each other} and a man by his neighbor. The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder, and the dishonorable toward the honorable.

He will lift up [his voice] on that day, saying, "I will not be a healer; in my house there is no bread and there is no cloak. You shall not make me [the] leader of [the] people!"

My people--children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading [you], and they confuse the course of your paths.

Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of his people and its princes. "And you! You have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor [is] in your houses!

{Why} do you crush my people and grind [the] face of [the] poor?" {declares} the Lord Yahweh of hosts.

Therefore my people will go into exile without knowledge, [and] their nobles [will be] men of hunger, and their multitude [is] parched [with] thirst.

Therefore {Yahweh's wrath was kindled} against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them, and the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like refuse in [the] middle of [the] streets.

And I said, "Woe to me! For I am destroyed! For I [am] a man {of unclean lips}, and I [am] living among a people {of unclean lips}, for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!"

And he said, "Go and say to this people, 'Keep on listening and do not comprehend! And keep on looking and do not understand!'

Make the heart of this people insensitive, and make its ears unresponsive, and shut its eyes so that it may not look with its eyes and listen with its ears and comprehend [with] its mind and turn back, and it may be healed [for] him."

Then I said, "Until when, Lord?" And he said, "Until [the] cities lie wasted without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is ruined [and] a waste,

and Yahweh sends the people far away, and the abandonment is great in the midst of the land.

When it was reported to the house of David, saying "Aram stands by Ephraim," his heart and the heart of his people shook like the shaking of the trees of [the] forest because of [the] wind.

For the head of Aram [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin, and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.

"Yahweh will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your ancestor days that have not come since [the] day Ephraim departed from Judah: the king of Assyria."

"Because this people has refused the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices [over] Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

For Yahweh said this to me {while his hand weighed heavily on me}, and he {warned me not to walk} in the way of this people, saying,

"You must not call conspiracy everything that this people calls conspiracy, and you must not {share its fear}, and you must not be in dread.

Now if they tell you, "Consult the ghosts and the spirits, those who chirp and those who mutter. Should not a people consult its gods, the dead on behalf of the living,

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; light has shined on those who lived in a land of darkness.

And all of the people knew it, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria in pride and arrogance of heart, saying,

And the people did not turn to the one who struck it, and they did not seek Yahweh of hosts.

And the leaders of this people were misleading [them], and those who were led [were] confused.

The land was burned through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and the people became like fire fuel. {People had no compassion toward each other}.

to guide [the] needy away from legal claims, and to rob the justice from the poor of my people, to make widows their spoil; and they plunder orphans.

I send him against a godless nation, and I command him against the people of my wrath, to capture spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make them a trampling place, like [the] clay of [the] streets.

For though your people Israel was like the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of it will return. Annihilation [is] determined, overflowing [with] righteousness.

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh of hosts: "My people who live [in] Zion, you must not be afraid of Assyria. It beats you with the rod, and it lifts up its staff against you {as the Egyptians did}.

And this shall happen on that day: The Lord will again [extend] his hand a second [time] to acquire the remnant of his people that is left, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coastlands of the sea,

But they shall {swoop} upon [the] Philistine shoulder, {westward}. Together they shall plunder [the] sons of [the] east. Edom and Moab {will be under their command}, and the sons of Ammon [will be] their subjugated people.

So there shall be a highway from Assyria for the remnant of his people that remains, as there was for Israel {when} it went up from the land of Egypt.

A sound, a noise [is] on the mountains, [the] likeness [of] many people! A sound of [the] roar of [the] kingdoms, of nations gathering! Yahweh of hosts [is] mustering an army for battle.

And this shall happen: like a hunted gazelle or sheep {with none to gather them}, they will each turn to his [own] people, and they will each flee to his [own] land.

You will not be united with them in burial because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people. [The] descendants of evildoers will not be mentioned for eternity!

And what will one answer [the] messengers of [the] nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and the needy of his people will take refuge in it.

that sends messengers by the sea and in vessels of papyrus on [the] surface of [the] waters! Go, swift messengers, to a {tall} and {smooth} nation, to a people feared {near and far}, a {mighty, mighty} and trampling nation, whose land rivers divide.

At that time, a gift will be brought to Yahweh of hosts [from] a {tall} and {smooth} people, and from a people feared near and far, a mighty, mighty and trampling nation, whose land [the] rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts, the mountain of Zion.

whom Yahweh of hosts blessed, saying, "May Egypt my people be blessed, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and my inheritance, Israel."

My downtrodden people and the son of my threshing floor, I will announce to you what I have heard from Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel.

Therefore I said, "Look away from me, let me {weep bitterly}; you must not insist on comforting me for the destruction of the daughter of my people."

Look [at] the land of the Chaldeans! {This people no longer exists. Assyria destined} it for wild animals. They erected its siege towers; they demolished its citadel fortresses. It made her like a ruin.

And it shall be as [with] the people, so [with] the priest; as [with] the slave, so [with] his master; as [with] the female slave, so [with] her mistress; as [with] the buyer, so [with] the seller; as [with] the lender, so [with] the borrower; as [with] the creditor, so [with] [the one] to whom he lends.

The earth dries up, it withers; [the] world languishes, it withers. The elevated of the people of the earth languish,