gather together.

2 Chronicles 20:4
So the people of Judah gathered to seek the LORD, and indeed, they came from all the cities of Judah to seek Him.

Nehemiah 8:1
At that time all the people gathered together at the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the LORD had commanded Israel.

Nehemiah 9:1
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.

Esther 4:16
"Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink day or night for three days, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish."

Joel 1:14
Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

Joel 2:12-18
Yet even now, declares the LORD, return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning. . . .

Matthew 18:20
For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them."

O nation.

Isaiah 1:4-6, 10-15
Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him. . . .

Jeremiah 12:7-9
I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies. . . .

Zechariah 11:8
And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.

desired.

Isaiah 26:8, 9
Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls. . . .