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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, Israel my servant, you are the people that I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham, my friend.I brought you from the ends of the earth; I called you from its farthest corners and said to you, ‘You are my servant.’ I did not reject you, but chose you.
“Israel, remember this! The Lord—and the Lord alone—is our God.Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
“Then get rid of those foreign gods that you have,” he demanded, “and pledge your loyalty to the Lord, the God of Israel.”
Lord, forgive your people Israel, whom you rescued from Egypt. Forgive us and do not hold us responsible for the murder of an innocent person.’
He told me to go and say to Israel, “Unfaithful Israel, come back to me. I am merciful and will not be angry; I will not be angry with you forever.
The man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob. You have struggled with God and with men, and you have won; so your name will be Israel.”
“People of Israel, you are my witnesses; I chose you to be my servant, so that you would know me and believe in me and understand that I am the only God. Besides me there is no other god; there never was and never will be.
The Lord says, “Listen now, Israel, my servant, my chosen people, the descendants of Jacob.It does no good to make a metal image to worship as a god!Everyone who worships it will be humiliated. The people who make idols are human beings and nothing more. Let them come and stand trial—they will be terrified and will suffer disgrace.The metalworker takes a piece of metal and works with it over a fire. His strong arm swings a hammer to pound the metal into shape. As he works, he gets hungry, thirsty, and tired.The carpenter measures the wood. He outlines a figure with chalk, carves it out with his tools, and makes it in the form of a man, a handsome human figure, to be placed in his house.He might cut down cedars to use, or choose oak or cypress wood from the forest. Or he might plant a laurel tree and wait for the rain to make it grow.A person uses part of a tree for fuel and part of it for making an idol. With one part he builds a fire to warm himself and bake bread; with the other part he makes a god and worships it.With some of the wood he makes a fire; he roasts meat, eats it, and is satisfied. He warms himself and says, “How nice and warm! What a beautiful fire!”The rest of the wood he makes into an idol, and then he bows down and worships it. He prays to it and says, “You are my god—save me!”Such people are too stupid to know what they are doing. They close their eyes and their minds to the truth.The maker of idols hasn't the wit or the sense to say, “Some of the wood I burned up. I baked some bread on the coals, and I roasted meat and ate it. And the rest of the wood I made into an idol. Here I am bowing down to a block of wood!”I am the Lord who created you; from the time you were born, I have helped you. Do not be afraid; you are my servant, my chosen people whom I love.
I appoint you to help my servant Israel, the people that I have chosen. I have given you great honor, although you do not know me.
Now, if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own people. The whole earth is mine, but you will be my chosen people,a people dedicated to me alone, and you will serve me as priests.”
“Now, people of Israel, listen to what the Lord your God demands of you: Worship the Lord and do all that he commands. Love him, serve him with all your heart,and obey all his laws. I am giving them to you today for your benefit.
Do this because you belong to the Lord your God. From all the peoples on earth he chose you to be his own special people.
“You saw what I, the Lord, did to the Egyptians and how I carried you as an eagle carries her young on her wings, and brought you here to me.Now, if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own people. The whole earth is mine, but you will be my chosen people,a people dedicated to me alone, and you will serve me as priests.”
The Lord says, “Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are one of the smallest towns in Judah, but out of you I will bring a ruler for Israel, whose family line goes back to ancient times.”
Israel, trust in the Lord, because his love is constant and he is always willing to save.
I will make you my own people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am the Lord your God when I set you free from slavery in Egypt.
God raised him to his right side as Leader and Savior, to give the people of Israel the opportunity to repent and have their sins forgiven.
The Lord says, “The time is coming when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. Although I was like a husband to them, they did not keep that covenant.The new covenant that I will make with the people of Israel will be this: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.None of them will have to teach a neighbor to know the Lord, because all will know me, from the least to the greatest. I will forgive their sins and I will no longer remember their wrongs. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
I will purify them from the sins that they have committed against me, and I will forgive their sins and their rebellion.
But God was merciful to his people. He forgave their sin and did not destroy them. Many times he held back his anger and restrained his fury.
“Of all the nations on earth, you are the only one I have known and cared for. That is what makes your sins so terrible, and that is why I must punish you for them.”
None of them will have to teach a neighbor to know the Lord, because all will know me, from the least to the greatest. I will forgive their sins and I will no longer remember their wrongs. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
“No other nation, no matter how great, has a god who is so near when they need him as the Lord our God is to us. He answers us whenever we call for help.
Israel, the Lord who created you says, “Do not be afraid—I will save you. I have called you by name—you are mine.
Anyone who strikes you strikes what is most precious to me.” So the Lord Almighty sent me with this message for the nations that had plundered his people:
if they pray to me and repent and turn away from the evil they have been doing, then I will hear them in heaven, forgive their sins, and make their land prosperous again.
Arise, Jerusalem, and shine like the sun; The glory of the Lord is shining on you!The Lord says to Jerusalem, “Foreigners will rebuild your walls, And their kings will serve you. In my anger I punished you, But now I will show you my favor and mercy.Day and night your gates will be open, So that the kings of the nations May bring you their wealth.But nations that do not serve you Will be completely destroyed.“The wood of the pine, the juniper, and the cypress, The finest wood from the forests of Lebanon, Will be brought to rebuild you, Jerusalem, To make my Temple beautiful, To make my city glorious.The descendants of those who oppressed you will come And bow low to show their respect. All who once despised you will worship at your feet. They will call you ‘The City of the Lord,’ ‘Zion, the City of Israel's Holy God.’“You will no longer be forsaken and hated, A city deserted and desolate. I will make you great and beautiful, A place of joy forever and ever.Nations and kings will care for you As a mother nurses her child. You will know that I, the Lord, have saved you, That the mighty God of Israel sets you free.“I will bring you gold instead of bronze, Silver and bronze instead of iron and wood, And iron instead of stone. Your rulers will no longer oppress you; I will make them rule with justice and peace.The sounds of violence will be heard no more; Destruction will not shatter your country again. I will protect and defend you like a wall; You will praise me because I have saved you.“No longer will the sun be your light by day Or the moon be your light by night; I, the Lord, will be your eternal light; The light of my glory will shine on you.Other nations will be covered by darkness, But on you the light of the Lord will shine; The brightness of his presence will be with you.Your days of grief will come to an end. I, the Lord, will be your eternal light, More lasting than the sun and moon.Your people will all do what is right, And will possess the land forever. I planted them, I made them, To reveal my greatness to all.Even your smallest and humblest family Will become as great as a powerful nation. When the right time comes, I will make this happen quickly. I am the Lord!”Nations will be drawn to your light, And kings to the dawning of your new day.
because the time is coming when I will restore my people, Israel and Judah. I will bring them back to the land that I gave their ancestors, and they will take possession of it again. I, the Lord, have spoken.”
I will take you from every nation and country and bring you back to your own land.I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean from all your idols and everything else that has defiled you.I will give you a new heart and a new mind. I will take away your stubborn heart of stone and give you an obedient heart.I will put my spirit in you and will see to it that you follow my laws and keep all the commands I have given you.Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors. You will be my people, and I will be your God.
Be determined and confident. Do not be afraid of them. Your God, the Lord himself, will be with you. He will not fail you or abandon you.”
The Lord said to me, “I have a greater task for you, my servant. Not only will you restore to greatness the people of Israel who have survived, but I will also make you a light to the nations— so that all the world may be saved.”
I ask, then: Did God reject his own people? Certainly not! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.May their eyes be blinded so that they cannot see; and make them bend under their troubles at all times.”I ask, then: When the Jews stumbled, did they fall to their ruin? By no means! Because they sinned, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make the Jews jealous of them.The sin of the Jews brought rich blessings to the world, and their spiritual poverty brought rich blessings to the Gentiles. Then, how much greater the blessings will be when the complete number of Jews is included!I am speaking now to you Gentiles: As long as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I will take pride in my work.Perhaps I can make the people of my own race jealous, and so be able to save some of them.For when they were rejected, all other people were changed from God's enemies into his friends. What will it be, then, when they are accepted? It will be life for the dead!If the first piece of bread is given to God, then the whole loaf is his also; and if the roots of a tree are offered to God, the branches are his also.Some of the branches of the cultivated olive tree have been broken off, and a branch of a wild olive tree has been joined to it. You Gentiles are like that wild olive tree, and now you share the strong spiritual life of the Jews.So then, you must not despise those who were broken off like branches. How can you be proud? You are just a branch; you don't support the roots—the roots support you.But you will say, “Yes, but the branches were broken off to make room for me.”God has not rejected his people, whom he chose from the beginning. You know what the scripture says in the passage where Elijah pleads with God against Israel:
The Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's home, and go to a land that I am going to show you.But there was a famine in Canaan, and it was so bad that Abram went farther south to Egypt, to live there for a while.When he was about to cross the border into Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “You are a beautiful woman.When the Egyptians see you, they will assume that you are my wife, and so they will kill me and let you live.Tell them that you are my sister; then because of you they will let me live and treat me well.”When he crossed the border into Egypt, the Egyptians did see that his wife was beautiful.Some of the court officials saw her and told the king how beautiful she was; so she was taken to his palace.Because of her the king treated Abram well and gave him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, donkeys, slaves, and camels.But because the king had taken Sarai, the Lord sent terrible diseases on him and on the people of his palace.Then the king sent for Abram and asked him, “What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?Why did you say that she was your sister, and let me take her as my wife? Here is your wife; take her and get out!”I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.The king gave orders to his men, so they took Abram and put him out of the country, together with his wife and everything he owned.I will bless those who bless you, But I will curse those who curse you. And through you I will bless all the nations.”
Then tell them that I, the Sovereign Lord, am going to take all my people out of the nations where they have gone, gather them together, and bring them back to their own land.I will unite them into one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. They will have one king to rule over them, and they will no longer be divided into two nations or split into two kingdoms.
Israel will join with Judah, and together they will come from exile in the country in the north and will return to the land that I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession.”
I will speak out to encourage Jerusalem; I will not be silent until she is saved, And her victory shines like a torch in the night.
“Just as the new earth and the new heavens will endure by my power, so your descendants and your name will endure.
“Comfort my people,” says our God. “Comfort them!The Sovereign Lord is coming to rule with power, bringing with him the people he has rescued. He will take care of his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs together and carry them in his arms; he will gently lead their mothers.Can anyone measure the ocean by handfuls or measure the sky with his hands? Can anyone hold the soil of the earth in a cup or weigh the mountains and hills on scales?Can anyone tell the Lord what to do? Who can teach him or give him advice?With whom does God consult in order to know and understand and to learn how things should be done?To the Lord the nations are nothing, no more than a drop of water; the distant islands are as light as dust.All the animals in the forests of Lebanon are not enough for a sacrifice to our God, and its trees are too few to kindle the fire.The nations are nothing at all to him.To whom can God be compared? How can you describe what he is like?He is not like an idol that workers make, that metalworkers cover with gold and set in a base of silver.Encourage the people of Jerusalem. Tell them they have suffered long enough and their sins are now forgiven. I have punished them in full for all their sins.”
Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which can never be shaken, never be moved.As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people, now and forever.
The Lord roars from Mount Zion; his voice thunders from Jerusalem; earth and sky tremble. But he will defend his people.
But I will heal this city and its people and restore them to health. I will show them abundant peace and security.
Everyone will know that I protect Israel and that they are my people. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken.
and their people will say, “Let us go up the hill of the Lord, to the Temple of Israel's God. He will teach us what he wants us to do; we will walk in the paths he has chosen. For the Lord's teaching comes from Jerusalem; from Zion he speaks to his people.”
Your Creator will be like a husband to you— the Lord Almighty is his name. The holy God of Israel will save you— he is the ruler of all the world.
Israel, trust in the Lord, because his love is constant and he is always willing to save.He will save his people Israel from all their sins.
The Lord says, “When Israel was a child, I loved him and called him out of Egypt as my son.
They are God's people; he made them his children and revealed his glory to them; he made his covenants with them and gave them the Law; they have the true worship; they have received God's promises;they are descended from the famous Hebrew ancestors; and Christ, as a human being, belongs to their race. May God, who rules over all, be praised forever! Amen.
The Lord says, “Nations, listen to me and proclaim my words on the far-off shores. I scattered my people, but I will gather them and guard them as a shepherd guards his flock.
“So tell them what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying. I will gather them out of the countries where I scattered them, and will give the land of Israel back to them.
I will rescue my people from the lands where they have been taken,and will bring them back from east and west to live in Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their God, ruling over them faithfully and justly.
But Israel is saved by the Lord, and her victory lasts forever; her people will never be disgraced.’”
He kept his promise to the people of Israel with loyalty and constant love for them. All people everywhere have seen the victory of our God.
There is no other nation on earth like Israel, whom you rescued from slavery to make them your own people. The great and wonderful things you did for them have spread your fame throughout the world. You drove out other nations and their gods as your people advanced, the people whom you set free from Egypt to be your own.You have made Israel your own people forever, and you, Lord, have become their God.
and Moses went up the mountain to meet with God. The Lord called to him from the mountain and told him to say to the Israelites, Jacob's descendants:“You saw what I, the Lord, did to the Egyptians and how I carried you as an eagle carries her young on her wings, and brought you here to me.Now, if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own people. The whole earth is mine, but you will be my chosen people,a people dedicated to me alone, and you will serve me as priests.”
The Lord will once again be merciful to his people Israel and choose them as his own. He will let them live in their own land again, and foreigners will come and live there with them.
I will make you well again; I will heal your wounds, though your enemies say, ‘Zion is an outcast; no one cares about her.’ I, the Lord, have spoken.”
I appeared to them from far away. People of Israel, I have always loved you, so I continue to show you my constant love.