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Bible Verses About Nations

This collection includes 50 passages about Nations. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:

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These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

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Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.

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Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

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Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

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Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

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For the kingdom is the Lord’s: and he is the governor among the nations.

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Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

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For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

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And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

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And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

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For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

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Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

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All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

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Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

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And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:

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These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

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And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

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When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

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It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.

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Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

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He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

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And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

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Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

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He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

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And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

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And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

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All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

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And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

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And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.

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For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

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If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

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Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

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Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.

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Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

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I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

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When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

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For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

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And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

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And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

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