the Lord

Isaiah 40:1, 2
"Comfort, comfort My people, " says your God. . . .

Isaiah 44:21, 22
Remember these things, O Jacob, for you are My servant, O Israel. I have made you; you are My servant; O Israel, I will never forget you. . . .

Isaiah 54:7, 8
For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back. . . .

Leviticus 26:40-45
But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me-- . . .

Deuteronomy 4:29-31
But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and all your soul. . . .

Nehemiah 1:8, 9
Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, . . .

Psalm 98:3
He has remembered His love and faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Psalm 102:13
You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor--the appointed time has come.

Psalm 136:10-24
He struck down the firstborn of Egypt His loving devotion endures forever. . . .

Psalm 143:12
And in Your loving devotion, cut off my enemies. Wipe out all who afflict me, for I am Your servant.

Jeremiah 50:4-6, 17-20, 33
"In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God. . . .

Jeremiah 51:4-6, 34-37
And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets. . . .

Luke 1:54, 72-74
He has helped His servant Israel, remembering to be merciful, . . .

choose

Isaiah 27:6
In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.

Zechariah 1:17
Proclaim further: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: 'My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.'"

Zechariah 2:12
And the LORD will take possession of Judah as His portion in the Holy Land, and He will once again choose Jerusalem.

set

Deuteronomy 30:3-5
then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you. . . .

Jeremiah 24:6, 7
I will keep My eyes upon their good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them. . . .

Jeremiah 29:14
I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile."

Jeremiah 30:18-22
This is what the LORD says: "I will restore the fortunes of Jacob's tents and have compassion on his dwellings. And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins, and the palace will stand in its rightful place. . . .

Jeremiah 31:8-12
Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, including the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor. They will return as a great assembly! . . .

Jeremiah 32:37-41
I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety. . . .

Ezekiel 36:24-28
For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land. . . .

Ezekiel 39:25-29
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Now I will restore Jacob from captivity and will have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name. . . .

the strangers

Isaiah 19:24, 25
In that day Israel will join a three-party alliance with Egypt and Assyria--a blessing upon the earth. . . .

Isaiah 49:16-23
Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me. . . .

Isaiah 56:6-8
And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants--all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant-- . . .

Isaiah 60:3-5
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn. . . .

Isaiah 66:20
And they will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots and wagons, on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem, " says the LORD, "just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.

Ruth 1:14-18
Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her. . . .

Esther 8:17
In every province and every city, wherever the king's edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.

Jeremiah 12:15, 16
But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land. . . .

Zechariah 2:11
"On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.

Zechariah 8:22, 23
And many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Hosts in Jerusalem and to plead before the LORD." . . .

Malachi 1:11
"For My name will be great among the nations, from the rising to the setting of the sun. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations, " says the LORD of Hosts.

Luke 2:32
a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel."

Acts 15:14-17
Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own. . . .

Ephesians 2:12-19
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. . . .