Quotes about Community
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
— Nehemiah 13:23
For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”
— Esther 8:6
In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.
— Esther 9:2
Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
— Job 1:4
My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
— Job 19:15
When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
— Job 29:7
I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
— Job 30:28
if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
— Job 31:17
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
— Job 31:21
if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—
— Job 31:31
but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—
— Job 31:32
Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.
— Psalm 7:7