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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, Isra’el, my servant; Ya‘akov, whom I have chosen, descendants of Avraham my friend,I have taken you from the ends of the earth, summoned you from its most distant parts and said to you, ‘You are my servant’ — I have chosen you, not rejected you.
“Sh’ma, Yisra’el! Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad [Hear, Isra’el! Adonai our God, Adonai is one];and you are to love Adonai your God with all your heart, all your being and all your resources.
“Now,” Y’hoshua urged, “put away the foreign gods you have among you, and turn your hearts to Adonai, the God of Isra’el.”
Adonai, forgive your people Isra’el, whom you redeemed; do not allow innocent blood to be shed among your people Isra’el.’ And they will be forgiven this bloodshed.
Go and proclaim these words toward the north: ‘“Return, backsliding Isra’el,” says Adonai. “I will not frown on you, for I am merciful,” says Adonai. “I will not bear a grudge forever.
“You are my witnesses,” says Adonai, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you can know and trust me and understand that I am he — no god was produced before me, nor will any be after me.
“Now listen, Ya‘akov my servant, Isra’el whom I have chosen:Who would fashion a god or cast an image that profits no one anything?All involved will be ashamed, but more than anyone else, the people who made them. Let them all be assembled, let them stand up; let them fear and be shamed together.A blacksmith makes a tool over burning coals; with his strong arm he shapes it with hammers. But when he gets hungry, his strength fails; if he doesn’t drink water, he grows tired.A carpenter takes his measurements, sketches the shape with a stylus, planes the wood, checks it with calipers, and carves it into the shape of a man; and, since it is honored like a man, of course it has to live in a house.He goes to chop down cedars; he takes an evergreen and an oak; he especially tends one tree in the forest, plants a pine for the rain to nourish.In time, when it’s ready for use as fuel, he takes some of it to keep himself warm and burns some more to bake bread. Then he makes a god and worships it, carves it into an idol and falls down before it.So half of it he burns in the fire; with that half he roasts meat and eats his fill; he warms himself; says, “It feels so good, getting warm while watching the flames!”With the rest of the log he fashions a god, a carved image, then falls down before it; he worships it and prays to it. “Save me,” he says, “for you are my god!”Such people know nothing, understand nothing. Their eyes are sealed shut, so that they can’t see; their hearts too, so they can’t understand.Not one thinks to himself or has the knowledge or the discernment to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, baked bread on its coals, roasted meat and ate it. Should I now make the rest an abomination? Should I prostrate myself to a tree trunk?”Thus says Adonai, who made you, formed you in the womb, and will help you: Don’t be afraid, Ya‘akov my servant, Yeshurun, whom I have chosen.
It is for the sake of Ya‘akov my servant, yes, for Isra’el my elect, that I call you by your name and give you a title, although you don’t know me.
Now if you will pay careful attention to what I say and keep my covenant, then you will be my own treasure from among all the peoples, for all the earth is mine;and you will be a kingdom of cohanim for me, a nation set apart.’ These are the words you are to speak to the people of Isra’el.” (v)
“So now, Isra’el, all that Adonai your God asks from you is to fear Adonai your God, follow all his ways, love him and serve Adonai your God with all your heart and all your being;to obey, for your own good, the mitzvot and regulations of Adonai which I am giving you today.
For you are a people set apart as holy for Adonai your God. Adonai your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his own unique treasure.
‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.Now if you will pay careful attention to what I say and keep my covenant, then you will be my own treasure from among all the peoples, for all the earth is mine;and you will be a kingdom of cohanim for me, a nation set apart.’ These are the words you are to speak to the people of Isra’el.” (v)
Therefore he will give up [Isra’el] only until she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his kinsmen will return to the people of Isra’el.
Isra’el, put your hope in Adonai! For grace is found with Adonai, and with him is unlimited redemption.
I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am Adonai your God, who freed you from the forced labor of the Egyptians.
God has exalted this man at his right hand as Ruler and Savior, in order to enable Isra’el to do t’shuvah and have her sins forgiven.
It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers on the day I took them by their hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt; because they, for their part, violated my covenant, even though I, for my part, was a husband to them,” says Adonai.“For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Isra’el after those days,” says Adonai: “I will put my Torah within them and write it on their hearts; I will be their God, and they will be my people.No longer will any of them teach his fellow community member or his brother, ‘Know Adonai’; for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest; because I will forgive their wickednesses and remember their sins no more.”This is what Adonai says, who gives the sun as light for the day, who ordained the laws for the moon and stars to provide light for the night, who stirs up the sea until its waves roar — Adonai-Tzva’ot is his name:
I will cleanse them from all their sins, through which they offended me; and I will pardon all their sins, through which they offended and rebelled against me.
Yet he, because he is full of compassion, forgave their sin and did not destroy; many times he turned away his anger and didn’t rouse all his wrath.
“Of all the families on earth, only you have I intimately known. This is why I will punish you for all your crimes.”
This is what Adonai says, who gives the sun as light for the day, who ordained the laws for the moon and stars to provide light for the night, who stirs up the sea until its waves roar — Adonai-Tzva’ot is his name:
For what great nation is there that has God as close to them as Adonai our God is, whenever we call on him?
But now this is what Adonai says, he who created you, Ya‘akov, he who formed you, Isra’el: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you; I am calling you by your name; you are mine.
and said to him, “Run and tell this young man, ‘Yerushalayim will be inhabited without walls, because there will be so many people and animals;
then, if my people, who bear my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face and turn from their evil ways, I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land.
“Arise, shine [Yerushalayim], for your light has come, the glory of Adonai has risen over you.Foreigners will rebuild your walls, their kings will be at your service; for in my anger I struck you, but in my mercy I pity you.Your gates will always be open, they will not be shut by day or by night, so that people can bring you the wealth of nations, with their kings led in procession.For the nation or kingdom that won’t serve you will perish; yes, those nations will be utterly destroyed.“The glory of the L’vanon will come to you, cypresses together with elm trees and larches, to beautify the site of my sanctuary — I will glorify the place where I stand.The children of your oppressors will come and bow low before you, all who despised you will fall at your feet, calling you the city of Adonai, Tziyon of the Holy One of Isra’el.“In the past you were abandoned and hated, so that no one would even pass through you; but now I will make you the pride of the ages, a joy for many generations.You will drink the milk of nations, you will nurse at royal breasts and know that I, Adonai, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Ya‘akov.“For bronze I will bring you gold, for iron I will bring you silver, bronze in place of wood, and iron in place of stones. I will make shalom your governor and righteousness your taskmaster.Violence will no longer be heard in your land, desolation or destruction within your borders; instead, you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.“No more will the sun be your light by day, nor will moonlight shine on you; instead Adonai will be your light forever and your God your glory.For although darkness covers the earth and thick darkness the peoples; on you Adonai will rise; over you will be seen his glory.No longer will your sun go down; your moon will no longer wane; for Adonai will be your light forever; your days of mourning will end.All your people will be tzaddikim; they will inherit the land forever; they will be the branch I planted, my handiwork, in which I take pride.The smallest will grow to a thousand, the weakest will become a mighty nation. I, Adonai, when the right time comes, will quickly bring it about.”Nations will go toward your light and kings toward your shining splendor.
For the day is coming,’ says Adonai, ‘when I will reverse the exile of my people Isra’el and Y’hudah,’ says Adonai. ‘I will cause them to return to the land I gave their ancestors, and they will take possession of it.’”
For I will take you from among the nations, gather you from all the countries, and return you to your own soil.Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and from all your idols.I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit inside you; I will take the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.I will put my Spirit inside you and cause you to live by my laws, respect my rulings and obey them.You will live in the land I gave to your ancestors. You will be my people, and I will be your God.
Be strong, be bold, don’t be afraid or frightened of them, for Adonai your God is going with you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you.” (RY: v, LY: iii)
he has said, “It is not enough that you are merely my servant to raise up the tribes of Ya‘akov and restore the offspring of Isra’el. I will also make you a light to the nations, so my salvation can spread to the ends of the earth.”
“In that case, I say, isn’t it that God has repudiated his people?” Heaven forbid! For I myself am a son of Isra’el, from the seed of Avraham, of the tribe of Binyamin.Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see, with their backs bent continually.”“In that case, I say, isn’t it that they have stumbled with the result that they have permanently fallen away?” Heaven forbid! Quite the contrary, it is by means of their stumbling that the deliverance has come to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.Moreover, if their stumbling is bringing riches to the world — that is, if Isra’el’s being placed temporarily in a condition less favored than that of the Gentiles is bringing riches to the latter — how much greater riches will Isra’el in its fullness bring them!However, to those of you who are Gentiles I say this: since I myself am an emissary sent to the Gentiles, I make known the importance of my workin the hope that somehow I may provoke some of my own people to jealousy and save some of them!For if their casting Yeshua aside means reconciliation for the world, what will their accepting him mean? It will be life from the dead!Now if the hallah offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole loaf. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.But if some of the branches were broken off, and you — a wild olive — were grafted in among them and have become equal sharers in the rich root of the olive tree,then don’t boast as if you were better than the branches! However, if you do boast, remember that you are not supporting the root, the root is supporting you.So you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”God has not repudiated his people, whom he chose in advance. Or don’t you know what the Tanakh says about Eliyahu? He pleads with God against Isra’el,
Now Adonai said to Avram, “Get yourself out of your country, away from your kinsmen and away from your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.But there was a famine in the land, so Avram went down into Egypt to stay there, because the famine in the land was severe.When he came close to Egypt and was about to enter, he said to Sarai his wife, “Here now, I know that you are a good-looking woman;so that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife,’ and kill me but keep you alive.Please say that you are my sister, so that it will go well with me for your sake, and so that I will stay alive because of you.” (ii)When Avram entered Egypt, the Egyptians did notice that the woman was very beautiful.Pharaoh’s princes saw her and commended her to Pharaoh, so the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.He treated Avram well for her sake, giving him sheep, cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.But Adonai inflicted great plagues on Pharaoh and his household because of Sarai Avram’s wife.Pharaoh called Avram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my own wife? Now therefore, here is your wife! Take her, and go away!”I will make of you a great nation, I will bless you, and I will make your name great; and you are to be a blessing.So Pharaoh gave orders concerning him to his men, and they sent him on his way with his wife and everything he had.I will bless those who bless you, but I will curse anyone who curses you; and by you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
Then say to them that Adonai Elohim says: ‘I will take the people of Isra’el from among the nations where they have gone and gather them from every side and bring them back to their own land.I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Isra’el; and one king will be king for all of them. They will no longer be two nations, and they will never again be divided into two kingdoms.
In those days, the house of Y’hudah will live together with the house of Isra’el; they will come together from the lands in the north to the land I gave your ancestors as their heritage.
For Tziyon’s sake I will not be silent, for Yerushalayim’s sake I will not rest, until her vindication shines out brightly and her salvation like a blazing torch.
“For just as the new heavens and the new earth that I am making will continue in my presence,” says Adonai, “so will your descendants and your name continue.
“Comfort and keep comforting my people,” says your God.Here comes Adonai Elohim with power, and his arm will rule for him. Look! His reward is with him, and his recompense is before him.He is like a shepherd feeding his flock, gathering his lambs with his arm, carrying them against his chest, gently leading the mother sheep.”Who has counted the handfuls of water in the sea, measured off the sky with a ruler, gauged how much dust there is on the earth, weighed the mountains on scales, or the hills in a balance?Who has measured the Spirit of Adonai? Who has been his counselor, instructing him?Whom did he consult, to gain understanding? Who taught him how to judge, taught him what he needed to know, showed him how to discern?The nations are like a drop in a bucket, they count like a grain of dust on the scales. The islands weigh as little as specks of dust.The L’vanon would not suffice for fuel or its animals be enough for burnt offerings.Before him all the nations are like nothing. He regards them as less than nothing.With whom, then, will you compare God? By what standard will you evaluate him?An image made by a craftsman, which a goldsmith overlays with gold, for which he then casts silver chains?“Tell Yerushalayim to take heart; proclaim to her that she has completed her time of service, that her guilt has been paid off, that she has received at the hand of Adonai double for all her sins.”
A song of ascents: Those who trust in Adonai are like Mount Tziyon, which cannot be moved but remains forever.Yerushalayim! Mountains all around it! Thus Adonai is around his people henceforth and forever.
However, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them peace and truth in plenty.
They will know that I, Adonai their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Isra’el, are my people,’ says Adonai Elohim.
Many Gentiles will go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Adonai, to the house of the God of Ya‘akov! He will teach us about his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Tziyon will go forth Torah, the word of Adonai from Yerushalayim.
For your husband is your Maker, Adonai-Tzva’ot is his name. The Holy One of Isra’el is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of all the earth.
It is a land Adonai your God cares for. The eyes of Adonai your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
Isra’el, put your hope in Adonai! For grace is found with Adonai, and with him is unlimited redemption.He will redeem Isra’el from all their wrongdoings.
the people of Isra’el! They were made God’s children, the Sh’khinah has been with them, the covenants are theirs, likewise the giving of the Torah, the Temple service and the promises;the Patriarchs are theirs; and from them, as far as his physical descent is concerned, came the Messiah, who is over all. Praised be Adonai for ever! Amen.
Therefore, say that Adonai Elohim says this: ‘“I will gather you from the peoples and collect you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give the land of Isra’el to you.”
Adonai-Tzva’ot says, ‘I will save my people from lands east and west;I will bring them back, and they will live in Yerushalayim. They will be my people; and I will be their God, with faithfulness and justice.’
But Isra’el, saved by Adonai with an everlasting salvation, you will never, ever, be ashamed or disgraced.
remembered his grace and faithfulness to the house of Isra’el. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.
Who can be compared with your people, with Isra’el? What other nation on earth did God set out to redeem and make into a people for himself? You made yourself a reputation by doing for your land things that even for you are great and terrifying, for the sake of your people whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt and from other nations and from their gods.You set up your people for yourself as your people forever; and you, Adonai, became their God.
Moshe went up to God, and Adonai called to him from the mountain: “Here is what you are to say to the household of Ya‘akov, to tell the people of Isra’el:‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.Now if you will pay careful attention to what I say and keep my covenant, then you will be my own treasure from among all the peoples, for all the earth is mine;and you will be a kingdom of cohanim for me, a nation set apart.’ These are the words you are to speak to the people of Isra’el.” (v)
For Adonai will have compassion on Ya‘akov — he will once again choose Isra’el and resettle them in their own land, where foreigners will join them, attaching themselves to the house of Ya‘akov.
For I will restore your health, I will heal you of your wounds,” says Adonai, “because they called you an outcast, Tziyon, with no one who cares about her.”
Once again, I will build you; you will be rebuilt, virgin of Isra’el. Once again, equipped with your tambourines, you will go out and dance with the merrymakers.