'People' in the Bible

Your people settled in it;God, You provided for the poor by Your goodness.

You ascended to the heights, taking away captives;You received gifts from people,even from the rebellious,so that the Lord God might live there.

People have seen Your procession, God,the procession of my God,my King, in the sanctuary.

God, You are awe-inspiring in Your sanctuaries.The God of Israel gives power and strength to His people.May God be praised!

He will judge Your people with righteousnessand Your afflicted ones with justice.

May the mountains bring prosperity to the peopleand the hills, righteousness.

May he vindicate the afflicted among the people,help the poor,and crush the oppressor.

May there be plenty of grain in the land;may it wave on the tops of the mountains.May its crops be like Lebanon.May people flourish in the citieslike the grass of the field.

They are not in trouble like others;they are not afflicted like most people.

Therefore His people turn to themand drink in their overflowing words.

If I had decided to say these things aloud,I would have betrayed Your people.

Remember this: the enemy has mocked Yahweh,and a foolish people has insulted Your name.

Do not give the life of Your dove to beasts;do not forget the lives of Your poor people forever.

For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.” A psalm of Asaph. A song.We give thanks to You, God;we give thanks to You, for Your name is near.People tell about Your wonderful works.

With power You redeemed Your people,the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.Selah

You led Your people like a flockby the hand of Moses and Aaron.

A Maskil of Asaph.My people, hear my instruction;listen to what I say.

Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out;torrents overflowed.But can He also provide breador furnish meat for His people?”

People ate the bread of angels.He sent them an abundant supply of food.

He led His people out like sheepand guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

He surrendered His people to the swordbecause He was enraged with His heritage.

He brought him from tending ewesto be shepherd over His people Jacob—over Israel, His inheritance.

Then we, Your people, the sheep of Your pasture,will thank You forever;we will declare Your praiseto generation after generation.

Listen, My people, and I will admonish you.Israel, if you would only listen to Me!

“But My people did not listen to Me;Israel did not obey Me.

If only My people would listen to Meand Israel would follow My ways,

They devise clever schemes against Your people;they conspire against Your treasured ones.

Happy are the people whose strength is in You,whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.

Will You not revive us againso that Your people may rejoice in You?

I will listen to what God will say;surely the Lord will declare peaceto His people, His godly ones,and not let them go back to foolish ways.

God, arrogant people have attacked me;a gang of ruthless men seeks my life.They have no regard for You.

Happy are the people who know the joyful shout;Yahweh, they walk in the light of Your presence.

You once spoke in a vision to Your loyal onesand said: “I have granted help to a warrior;I have exalted one chosen from the people.

Lord, they crush Your people;they afflict Your heritage.

Pay attention, you stupid people!Fools, when will you be wise?

The Lord will not forsake His peopleor abandon His heritage,

For He is our God,and we are the people of His pasture,the sheep under His care.Today, if you hear His voice:

For 40 years I was disgusted with that generation;I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;they do not know My ways.”

Acknowledge that Yahweh is God.He made us, and we are His —His people, the sheep of His pasture.

This will be written for a later generation,and a newly created people will praise the Lord:

He revealed His ways to Moses,His deeds to the people of Israel.

The Lord made His people very fruitful;He made them more numerous than their foes,

whose hearts He turned to hate His peopleand to deal deceptively with His servants.

He brought His people out with rejoicing,His chosen ones with shouts of joy.

Remember me, Lord,when You show favor to Your people.Come to me with Your salvation

Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against His people,and He abhorred His own inheritance.

May Yahweh, the God of Israel, be praisedfrom everlasting to everlasting.Let all the people say, “Amen!”Hallelujah!

Let them exalt Him in the assembly of the peopleand praise Him in the council of the elders.

Your people will volunteeron Your day of battle.In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn,the dew of Your youth belongs to You.

He has shown His people the power of His worksby giving them the inheritance of the nations.

He has sent redemption to His people.He has ordained His covenant forever.His name is holy and awe-inspiring.

in order to seat them with nobles—with the nobles of His people.

When Israel came out of Egypt—the house of Jacob from a peoplewho spoke a foreign language—

I will fulfill my vows to the Lordin the presence of all His people.

I will fulfill my vows to the Lordin the presence of all His people,

All Your commands are true;people persecute me with lies—help me!

My eyes pour out streams of tearsbecause people do not follow Your instruction.

Jerusalem—the mountains surround her.And the Lord surrounds His people,both now and forever.

May Your priests be clothed with righteousness,and may Your godly people shout for joy.

I will clothe its priests with salvation,and its godly people will shout for joy.

He struck down the firstborn of Egypt,both man and beast.

He gave their land as an inheritance,an inheritance to His people Israel.

For Yahweh will vindicate His peopleand have compassion on His servants.

He led His people in the wilderness.        His love is eternal.

When their rulers will be thrown offthe sides of a cliff,the people will listen to my words,for they are pleasing.

He is my faithful love and my fortress,my stronghold and my deliverer.He is my shield, and I take refuge in Him;He subdues my people under me.

Happy are the people with such blessings.Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.

informing all people of Your mighty actsand of the glorious splendor of Your kingdom.

The Lord rebuilds Jerusalem;He gathers Israel’s exiled people.

He has raised up a horn for His people,resulting in praise to all His godly ones,to the Israelites, the people close to Him.Hallelujah!

For Yahweh takes pleasure in His people;He adorns the humble with salvation.

carrying out the judgment decreed against them.This honor is for all His godly people.Hallelujah!

So follow the way of good people,and keep to the paths of the righteous.

People don’t despise the thief if he stealsto satisfy himself when he is hungry.

“People, I call out to you;my cry is to mankind.

Without guidance, people fall,but with many counselors there is deliverance.

People will curse anyone who hoards grain,but a blessing will come to the one who sells it.

Lying lips are detestable to the Lord,but faithful people are His delight.

From the words of his mouth,a man will enjoy good things,but treacherous people have an appetite for violence.

Righteousness guards people of integrity,but wickedness undermines the sinner.

A wise man’s instruction is a fountain of life,turning people away from the snares of death.

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life,turning people away from the snares of death.

A large population is a king’s splendor,but a shortage of people is a ruler’s devastation.

Righteousness exalts a nation,but sin is a disgrace to any people.

A foolish scheme is sin,and a mocker is detestable to people.

Whoever says to the guilty, “You are innocent”—people will curse him, and tribes will denounce him;

When the righteous triumph,there is great rejoicing,but when the wicked come to power,people hide themselves.

A wicked ruler over a helpless peopleis like a roaring lion or a charging bear.

When the wicked come to power,people hide,but when they are destroyed,the righteous flourish. >

When the righteous flourish, the people rejoice,but when the wicked rule, people groan.

Without revelation people run wild,but one who listens to instruction will be happy.

the ants are not a strong people,yet they store up their food in the summer;

hyraxes are not a mighty people,yet they make their homes in the cliffs;

I applied my mind to seek and explore through wisdom all that is done under heaven. God has given people this miserable task to keep them occupied.

I explored with my mind how to let my body enjoy life with wine and how to grasp folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what is good for people to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.

I have seen the task that God has given people to keep them occupied.

I know that all God does will last forever; there is no adding to it or taking from it. God works so that people will be in awe of Him.

I said to myself, “This happens concerning people, so that God may test them and they may see for themselves that they are like animals.”

For the fate of people and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath. People have no advantage over animals since everything is futile.

Who knows if the spirit of people rises upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?