Our Country

And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

• Praise
• Idolatry

And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.

• Heaven

But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

• Commonwealth

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.

• Government

Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us.

As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.

And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.