2758 verses about Community

I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.

Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.

We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.

Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a great company.

“Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”

There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah, their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her”; the Most High himself will establish her.

Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah.

Those who sing as well as those who dance say, “All my springs are in you.”

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts.

when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.

that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.

And gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders.

There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.

I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people.

I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people,

in the courts of Yahweh’s house, in the middle of you, Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.

Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem;

Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;

where the tribes go up, even Yah’s tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to Yahweh’s name.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.

Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.

For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”

For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron’s beard; that came down on the edge of his robes;

like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion: for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.

How can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land?

Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets.

One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.

He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!

Praise Yahweh! Sing to Yahweh a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

You shall cast your lot among us. We’ll all have one purse.”

Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you,” when you have it by you.

Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there is shouting.

By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

In the multitude of people is the king’s glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.

Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.

Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

Her husband is respected in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots. Friends

You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice! Beloved

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Zion the law shall go out, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, “Be strong!”

So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good”; and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.

Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.