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68 Bible verses about Israel
I want to share something powerful with you. God has offered divine forgiveness to Israel. He's redeemed them, forgiven them. Think about that – innocent blood, forgiven. It’s a reminder of the incredible grace available to all of us.
God has exalted Jesus as Prince and Savior, offering repentance and forgiveness of sins. This is a gift, not just for Israel, but for everyone who believes. I encourage you to pray for Israel's salvation. Blessing this holy nation brings blessings in return. God’s grace and favor will become evident in your life when you hold His chosen people close to your heart. They are precious in His sight.
Remember this: never curse Israel. Speaking against them invites judgment and can bring real hardship into your life. Instead, let's lift them up in prayer and show the same love and forgiveness that God has shown us.
But you, O Israel, are My servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, whom I have loved;whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and from the high places of it I have called you, and said to you, You are My servant; I have chosen you, and I have not forsaken you.
Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord.And you shall love the Lord your God with all your mind, and with all your soul, and all your strength.
And now take away the strange gods that are among you, and set your heart right toward the Lord God of Israel.
Be merciful to Your people Israel, O Lord, whom You have redeemed, that innocent blood may not be charged on Your people Israel; and atonement shall be provided on their behalf for the blood.
Go and read these words toward the north, and you shall say, Return to Me, O house of Israel, says the Lord; and I will not set My face against you: for I am merciful, says the Lord, and I will not be angry with you forever.
And He said to him, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name; for you have prevailed with God, and shall be mighty with men.
Be My witnesses, and I too am a witness, says the Lord God, and My servant whom I have chosen; that you may know, and believe, and understand that I am He; before Me there was no other God, and after Me there shall be none.
But now hear, O Jacob My servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen.Thus says the Lord God that made you, and He that formed you from the womb; You shall yet be helped; fear not, My servant Jacob; and beloved Israel, whom I have chosen.
For the sake of My servant Jacob, and Israel My elect, I will call you by your name, and accept you; but you have not known Me.
And now if you will indeed hear My voice, and keep My covenant, you shall be to Me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is Mine.And you shall be to Me a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words shall you speak to the children of Israel.
And now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul;to keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and His statutes, all that I command you this day, that it may be well with you?
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; and the Lord your God chose you to be to Him a peculiar people beyond all nations that are upon the face of the earth.
You have seen all that I have done to the Egyptians, and I took you up as upon eagles' wings, and I brought you near to Myself.And now if you will indeed hear My voice, and keep My covenant, you shall be to Me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is Mine.And you shall be to Me a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words shall you speak to the children of Israel.
And you, Bethlehem, house of Ephratha, are few in number to be reckoned among the thousands of Judah; yet out of you shall one come forth to Me, to be a ruler of Israel; and His goings forth were from the beginning, even from eternity.
Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord is mercy, and with Him is abundant redemption.
But you, O Israel, are My servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, whom I have loved;whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and from the high places of it I have called you, and said to you, You are My servant; I have chosen you, and I have not forsaken you.Fear not; for I am with you; wander not; for I am your God, who has strengthened you; and I have helped you, and have established you with My righteous right hand.
And I will take you to Me as a people unto Myself, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the tyranny of the Egyptians.
Him God has exalted to His right hand as Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah.Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they abode not in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.For this is My covenant which I will make with the house of Israel: after those days, says the Lord, I will surely put My laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts. And I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.And no more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord. For all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.
And I will cleanse them from all their iniquities by which they have sinned against Me, and I will not remember their sins by which they have sinned against Me, and revolted from Me.
But He is compassionate, and will forgive their sins, and will not destroy them; yea, He will frequently turn away His wrath, and will not kindle all His anger.
You especially have I known out of all the families of the earth: therefore will I take vengeance upon you for all your sins.
And no more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord. For all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.
For what manner of nation is so great, which has God so near to them as the Lord our God is in all things in whatsoever we may call upon Him?
And now thus says the Lord God that made you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel, Fear not; for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name; you are Mine.
For thus says the Lord Almighty; After the glory has he sent Me to the nations that spoiled you: for he that touches you is as one that touches the apple of His eye.
then if My people, on whom My name is called, should repent, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, I also will hear from heaven, and I will be merciful to their sins, and I will heal their land.
Be enlightened, be enlightened, O Jerusalem, for your light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you!Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and there shall be deep darkness on the nations; but the Lord shall appear upon you, and His glory shall be seen upon you.And kings shall walk in your light, and nations in your brightness.
For behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will bring back the captivity of My people Israel and Judah; and I will bring them back to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall be masters over it, says the Lord.
And I will take you out from the nations, and will gather you out of all the lands, and will bring you into your own land;and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you.And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you: and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.And I will put My Spirit in you, and will cause you to walk in My ordinances, and to keep My judgments, and do them.And you shall dwell upon the land which I gave to your fathers; and you shall be to Me a people, and I will be to you a God.
He is the Lord our God; His judgments are in all the earth.He has remembered His covenant forever, the word which He commanded for a thousand generations;which He established as a covenant to Abraham, and He remembered His oath to Isaac.And He established it to Jacob for an ordinance, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant;saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the line of your inheritance;
Be courageous and strong; fear not, neither be cowardly neither be afraid before them; for it is the Lord your God that advances with you in the midst of you, neither will He by any means forsake you, nor desert you.
And He said to me, It is a great thing for you to be called My servant, to establish the tribes of Jacob, and to recover the dispersion of Israel; behold, I have given you for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation to the end of the earth.
I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
And the Lord said to Abram, Go forth out of your land, and out from your family, and out of the house of your father, into the land which I will show you.And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you shall be blessed.And I will bless those that bless you, and curse those that curse you, and in you shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.
And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the whole house of Israel out of the midst of the nations, among whom they have gone, and I will gather them from all that are round about them, and I will bring them into the land of Israel.And I will make them a nation in My land, even on the mountains of Israel; and they shall have one prince; and they shall be two nations no longer, neither shall they be divided anymore into two kingdoms;
In those days the house of Judah shall come together to the house of Israel, and they shall come, together, from the land of the north, and from all the countries, to the land, which I caused their fathers to inherit.
For Zion's sake I will not hold My peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as light, and My salvation burn as a torch.
For as the new heaven and the new earth, which I make, remain before Me, says the Lord, so shall your seed and your name continue.
The Lord shall raise you up as a holy people unto Himself, as He swore to your fathers; if you will hear the voice of the Lord your God, and walk in all His ways.And all the nations of the earth shall see you, that the name of the Lord is called upon you, and they shall stand in awe of you.
Comfort, yes, comfort My people, says your God.Speak, you priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away; for she has received of the Lord's hand double for her sins.
A Song of Degrees. They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion: he that dwells in Jerusalem shall never be moved.The mountains are round about her, and so the Lord is round about His people, from this time forth and forever.
And the Lord shall cry out of Zion, and shall utter His voice from Jerusalem; and the heaven and the earth shall be shaken, but the Lord shall spare His people, and shall strengthen the children of Israel.
Behold, I bring upon her healing and cure, and I will show Myself to them, and will heal her, and make both peace and security.
And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and they My people. O house of Israel, says the Lord God,
And many nations shall go, and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and they shall show us His way, and we will walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth a law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
For it is the Lord that made you; the Lord of hosts is His name; and He that delivered you, He is the God of Israel, and shall be called so by the whole earth.
A land which the Lord your God surveys continually, the eyes of the Lord your God are upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord is mercy, and with Him is abundant redemption.And He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Early in the morning were they cast off, the king of Israel has been cast off: for Israel is a child, and I loved him, and out of Egypt have I called his children.
who are Israelites, of whom are the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the worship, and the promises;of whom are the fathers and from whom Christ came, according to the flesh, He who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
Hear the words of the Lord, you nations, and proclaim them to the islands afar off. Say, He that scattered Israel will also gather him, and keep him as one that feeds his flock.
Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: I will also take them from the heathen, and gather them out of the lands in which I have scattered them, and will give them the land of Israel.
Thus says the Lord Almighty; Behold, I will save My people from the east country, and the west country;and I will bring them in, and cause them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and they shall be to Me a people, and I will be to them a God, in truth and in righteousness.
Israel is saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; they shall not be ashamed nor confounded forever.
He has remembered His mercy to Jacob, and His truth to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
And what other nation in the earth is like Your people Israel? Whereas God was his guide, to redeem for Himself a people, to make for Himself a name, to do mightily and nobly, so that You should cast out nations and their tabernacles from the presence of Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself out of Egypt?And You have prepared for Yourself Your people Israel, to be a people forever, and You, O Lord, have become their God.
And Moses went up to the mount of God, and God called him out of the mountain, saying, These things shall you say to the house of Jacob, and you shall report them to the children of Israel.You have seen all that I have done to the Egyptians, and I took you up as upon eagles' wings, and I brought you near to Myself.And now if you will indeed hear My voice, and keep My covenant, you shall be to Me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is Mine.And you shall be to Me a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words shall you speak to the children of Israel.
And the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and they shall rest on their land; and the stranger shall be added to them; yes, they shall be added to the house of Jacob.
For I will bring about your healing, I will heal you of your grievous wound, says the Lord; for you are called Dispersed: she is your prey, for no one seeks after her.
The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.
And His people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of His inheritance.He maintained him in the wilderness, in burning thirst and a dry land: He led him about and instructed him, and kept him as the apple of His eye.