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I have destroyed all nations before them, and scattered in the east the people of two provinces, Tyre and Sidon; I have slain all their enemies.
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Israel’s Disobedience and Rejection
“What shall I do to you, O Jacob? You would not obey me, O Judah. I will turn to other nations and will give them my name, that they may keep my statutes.
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Let them be scattered among the nations, let their names be blotted out from the earth, because they have despised my covenant.
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The nations shall envy you but they shall not be able to do anything against you, says the Lord.
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Therefore I say to you, O nations that hear and understand, “Await your shepherd; he will give you everlasting rest, because he who will come at the end of the age is close at hand.
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And thou didst lay upon him one commandment of thine; but he transgressed it, and immediately thou didst appoint death for him and for his descendants. From him there sprang nations and tribes, peoples and clans, without number.
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“When those who dwelt on earth began to multiply, they produced children and peoples and many nations, and again they began to be more ungodly than were their ancestors.
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Yet their reward has not appeared and their labor has borne no fruit. For I have traveled widely among the nations and have seen that they abound in wealth, though they are unmindful of thy commandments.
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Thou mayest indeed find individual men who have kept thy commandments, but nations thou wilt not find.”
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The dumb and lifeless water produced living creatures, as it was commanded, that therefore the nations might declare thy wondrous works.
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As for the other nations which have descended from Adam, thou hast said that they are nothing, and that they are like spittle, and thou hast compared their abundance to a drop from a bucket.
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And now, O Lord, behold, these nations, which are reputed as nothing, domineer over us and devour us.
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Then the Most High will say to the nations that have been raised from the dead, ‘Look now, and understand whom you have denied, whom you have not served, whose commandments you have despised!
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So when there shall appear in the world earthquakes, tumult of peoples, intrigues of nations, wavering of leaders, confusion of princes,
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And when all the nations hear his voice, every man shall leave his own land and the warfare that they have against one another;
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And he, my Son, will reprove the assembled nations for their ungodliness (this was symbolized by the storm),
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But they formed this plan for themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the nations and go to a more distant region, where mankind had never lived,
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Therefore when he destroys the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he will defend the people who remain.
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The nations of the dragons of Arabia shall come out with many chariots, and from the day that they set out, their hissing shall spread over the earth, so that all who hear them fear and tremble.
