Quotes about Community
Then the people of Judah and of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one leader, and will go up out of the land. For great will be the day of Jezreel.
— Hosea 1:11
“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’
— Hosea 2:1
But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.
— Hosea 4:4
Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?
— Joel 1:2
Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.
— Joel 2:16
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
— Amos 5:16
I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng.
— Micah 2:12
“On that day,” declares the LORD, “I will gather the lame; I will assemble the outcast, even those whom I have afflicted.
— Micah 4:6
And I will make the lame into a remnant, and the outcast into a strong nation. Then the LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.
— Micah 4:7
Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,
— Zephaniah 2:1
For then I will restore pure lips to the peoples, that all may call upon the name of the LORD and serve Him shoulder to shoulder.
— Zephaniah 3:9
“I will gather those among you who grieve over the appointed feasts, so that you will no longer suffer reproach.
— Zephaniah 3:18