Strong Nations

Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.

For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.

And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

• Fortifications
• Armies
• Waiting

Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.