Whoever obeys her will judge the nations, and whoever listens to her will live securely.

The Lord plucked up the roots of the nations and planted the humble in their place.

The Lord laid waste the lands of the nations and destroyed them to the foundations of the earth.

Being surety has ruined many who were prosperous and has tossed them about like waves of the sea; it has driven the influential into exile, and they have wandered among foreign nations.

and repays vengeance on the nations, until he destroys the multitude of the insolent and breaks the scepters of the unrighteous,

and put all the nations in fear of you.

Lift up your hand against foreign nations and let them see your might.

They serve among the great and appear before rulers; they travel in foreign nations and learn what is good and evil in the human lot.

Nations will speak of their wisdom, and the congregation will proclaim their praise.

The nations will inherit his wrath, as when he turned a watered land into salt.

Abraham

Abraham was the great father of a multitude of nations, and no one has been found like him in glory.

Therefore the Lord assured him with an oath that the nations would be blessed through his offspring, that he would make him as numerous as the dust of the earth and exalt his offspring like the stars and give them an inheritance from sea to sea and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.

He overwhelmed that nation in battle, and on the slope he destroyed his opponents, so that the nations might know his armament, because their battle was against the Lord, for he was a devoted follower of the Mighty One.

For your songs, proverbs, parables, and understanding the nations marveled at you.

Epilogue

Two nations my soul detests, and the third is not even a nation: