'People' in the Bible

Who doth give from Zion the salvation of Israel? When God turneth back to a captivity of His people, Jacob doth rejoice -- Israel is glad!

Slay them not, lest my people forget, Shake them by Thy strength, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Thou hast shewn Thy people a hard thing, Thou hast caused us to drink wine of trembling.

Trust in Him at all times, O people, Pour forth before Him your heart, God is a refuge for us. Selah.

O God, in Thy going forth before Thy people, In Thy stepping through the wilderness, Selah.

Fearful, O God, out of Thy sanctuaries, The God of Israel Himself, Giving strength and might to the people. Blessed is God!

He judgeth Thy people with righteousness, And Thy poor with judgment.

The mountains bear peace to the people, And the heights by righteousness.

He judgeth the poor of the people, Giveth deliverance to the sons of the needy, And bruiseth the oppressor.

Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.

Thou hast broken the heads of leviathan, Thou makest him food, For the people of the dry places.

Remember this -- an enemy reproached Jehovah, And a foolish people have despised Thy name.

Thou hast redeemed with strength Thy people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

Thou hast led as a flock Thy people, By the hand of Moses and Aaron!

An Instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.

Lo, He hath smitten a rock, And waters flow, yea, streams overflow. 'Also -- bread is He able to give? Doth He prepare flesh for His people?'

And causeth His people to journey as a flock, And guideth them as a drove in a wilderness,

And delivereth up to the sword His people, And with His inheritance shewed Himself angry.

From behind suckling ones He hath brought him in, To rule over Jacob His people, And over Israel His inheritance.

And we, Thy people, and the flock of Thy pasture, We give thanks to Thee to the age, To all generations we recount Thy praise!

Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.

Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:

But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.

O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.

Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones.

Thou hast borne away the iniquity of Thy people, Thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

Dost Thou not turn back? Thou revivest us, And Thy people do rejoice in Thee.

I hear what God Jehovah speaketh, For He speaketh peace unto His people, And unto His saints, and they turn not back to folly.

O the happiness of the people knowing the shout, O Jehovah, in the light of Thy face they walk habitually.

Then Thou hast spoken in vision, To Thy saint, yea, Thou sayest, I have placed help upon a mighty one, Exalted a chosen one out of the people,

Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.

Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

For Jehovah leaveth not His people, And His inheritance forsaketh not.

For He is our God, and we the people of His pasture, And the flock of His hand, To-day, if to His voice ye hearken,

Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, 'A people erring in heart -- they! And they have not known My ways:'

Before Jehovah, For He hath come to judge the earth, He judgeth the world in righteousness, And the people in uprightness!

Know that Jehovah He is God, He made us, and we are His, His people -- and the flock of His pasture.

This is written for a later generation, And the people created do praise Jah.

And they go up and down, from nation unto nation, From a kingdom unto another people.

And He maketh His people very fruitful, And maketh it mightier than its adversaries.

He turned their heart to hate His people, To conspire against His servants.

And He bringeth forth His people with joy, With singing His chosen ones.

Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation.

And the anger of Jehovah Is kindled against His people, And He doth abominate His inheritance.

Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, 'Amen, praise Jah!'

And they exalt Him in the assembly of the people, And in the seat of the elders praise Him.

Thy people are free-will gifts in the day of Thy strength, in the honours of holiness, From the womb, from the morning, Thou hast the dew of thy youth.

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

Redemption He hath sent to His people, He hath appointed to the age His covenant, Holy and fearful is His name.

To cause to sit with princes, With the princes of His people.

In the going out of Israel from Egypt, The house of Jacob from a strange people,

My vows to Jehovah let me complete, I pray you, before all His people.

My vows to Jehovah let me complete, I pray you, before all His people,

Jerusalem! mountains are round about her, And Jehovah is round about His people, From henceforth even unto the age.

And He gave their land an inheritance, An inheritance to Israel His people,

For Jehovah doth judge His people, And for His servants comforteth Himself.

To Him leading His people in a wilderness, For to the age is His kindness.

My kind one, and my bulwark, My tower, and my deliverer, My shield, and in whom I have trusted, Who is subduing my people under me!

O the happiness of the people that is thus, O the happiness of the people whose God is Jehovah!

And He exalteth the horn of His people, The praise of all His saints, Of the sons of Israel, a people near Him. Praise ye Jah!

For Jehovah is pleased with His people, He beautifieth the humble with salvation.

Without counsels do a people fall, And deliverance is in a multitude of counsellors.

Whoso is withholding corn, the people execrate him, And a blessing is for the head of him who is selling.

In the multitude of a people is the honour of a king, And in lack of people the ruin of a prince.

A growling lion, and a ranging bear, Is the wicked ruler over a poor people.

In the multiplying of the righteous the people rejoice, And in the ruling of the wicked the people sigh.

Without a Vision is a people made naked, And whoso is keeping the law, O his happiness!

The ants are a people not strong, And they prepare in summer their food,

Conies are a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house,

there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter rejoice not in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

And further, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, and gave ear, and sought out -- he made right many similes.

I knew not my soul, It made me -- chariots of my people Nadib.

An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.

Ah, sinning nation, a people heavy with iniquity, A seed of evil doers, sons -- corrupters! They have forsaken Jehovah, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have gone away backward.

Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom, Give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah,

For Thou hast left Thy people, the house of Jacob. For they have been filled from the east, And are sorcerers like the Philistines, And with the children of strangers strike hands.

And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.

He lifteth up, in that day, saying: 'I am not a binder up, And in my house is neither bread nor garment, Ye do not make me a ruler of the people.'

My people -- its exactors are sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.

Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: 'And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor is in your houses.

What -- to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:

Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honourable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.

Therefore hath the anger of Jehovah burned among His people, And He stretcheth out His hand against it, And smiteth it, and the mountains tremble, And their carcase is as filth in the midst of the out-places. With all this His anger did not turn back, And still His hand is stretched out!

And I say, 'Woe to me, for I have been silent, For a man -- unclean of lips am I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'

And He saith, 'Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye -- to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye -- to see, and ye do not know.

Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'

And it is declared to the house of David, saying, 'Aram hath been led towards Ephraim,' And his heart and the heart of his people is moved, like the moving of trees of a forest by the presence of wind.

For the head of Aram is Damascus, And the head of Damascus is Rezin, And within sixty and five years Is Ephraim broken from being a people.

Jehovah bringeth on thee, and on thy people, And on the house of thy father, Days that have not come, Even from the day of the turning aside of Ephraim from Judah, By the king of Asshur.

'Because that this people hath refused The waters of Shiloah that go softly, And is rejoicing with Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

For thus hath Jehovah spoken unto me with strength of hand, and instructeth me against walking in the way of this people, saying,

'Ye do not say, A confederacy, To all to whom this people saith, A confederacy, And its fear ye do not fear, Nor declare fearful.

And when they say unto you, 'Seek unto those having familiar spirits, And unto wizards, who chatter and mutter, Doth not a people seek unto its God? -- For the living unto the dead!

The people who are walking in darkness Have seen a great light, Dwellers in a land of death-shade, Light hath shone upon them.

And the people have known -- all of it, Ephraim, and the inhabitant of Samaria, In pride and in greatness of heart, saying,

And the people hath not turned back unto Him who is smiting it, And Jehovah of Hosts they have not sought.

And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, And its eulogised ones are consumed.

In the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts Hath the land been consumed, And the people is as fuel of fire; A man on his brother hath no pity,

To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

Against a profane nation I send him, And concerning a people of My wrath I charge him, To spoil spoil, and to seize prey, And to make it a treading-place as the clay of out places.