Quotes about Community
The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
- Lamentations 5:14
For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
- Ezekiel 3:5
They are saying, ‘Is not the time near to build houses? The city is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.’
- Ezekiel 11:3
Then some of the elders of Israel came and sat down before me.
- Ezekiel 14:1
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
- Ezekiel 22:7
As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD!’
- Ezekiel 33:30
You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.
- Ezekiel 34:3
You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
- Ezekiel 34:4
I will bring them out from the peoples, gather them from the countries, and bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines, and in all the settlements of the land.
- Ezekiel 34:13
When the sticks on which you write are in your hand and in full view of the people,
- Ezekiel 37:20
My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Ezekiel 37:27
All the people of the land must participate in this contribution for the prince in Israel.
- Ezekiel 45:16