Quotes about Community

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!

And Judah and all its cities will dwell together in the land, the farmers and those who move with the flocks,

No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

They will be My people, and I will be their God.

So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah and stayed with him among the people who were left in the land.

and he summoned Johanan son of Kareah, all the commanders of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest.

“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.

The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—

They are saying, ‘Is not the time near to build houses? The city is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.’

Then some of the elders of Israel came and sat down before me.

Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.