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1. Universal Quotes From the Bible
Introductory Glossary
Ketuvim: Is the third and final section of the Bible (Tanach)—the Written Torah.
Masoretic Text: Derived from masorah, meaning "tradition"; the Masoretes were the rabbis in ninth-century
Palestine who sought to preserve the traditional text of the Bible (hence called the Masoretic text), which is still used
in contemporary synagogues. The Masoretes were scholars who encouraged Bible study and attempted to achieve
uniformity by establishing rules for correcting the text in matters of spelling, grammar and pronunciation. Masoretic
(adj.) means that something is in accordance with the masorah.
Nevi'im: Biblical writings and stories of Prophets
Tanach: The bible; acronym for Torah (i.e., the Five Books of Moses), Nevi’im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (the
“Writings”; i.e., the Hagiographa).
Targum: Generally used to designate Aramaic translations of the Jewish scriptures.
Torah: The Five Books of Moses (The Bible); (b) the overall body of Jewish religious teachings encompassing the
whole body of Jewish law, practice and tradition.

2. Torah
These are the generations of Noah, Noah was a righteous man he was perfect in his generations; Noah
walked with God (Genesis 6:9)
And the Lord said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, for it is you that I have seen as
a righteous man before Me in this generation (Genesis 7:1)
And God said to Noah and to his sons with him, saying: "And I, behold I am setting up My covenant with
you and with your seed after you (Genesis 9:8-9)
And God said: "This is the sign of the covenant, which I am placing between Me and between you, and
between every living soul that is with you, for everlasting generations. My rainbow I have placed in the
cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Myself and the earth (Genesis 9:12-13)
And God said to Noah: "This is the sign of the covenant that I have set up, between Myself and between
all flesh that is on the earth (Genesis 9:17)
These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the entire earth spread out. (Genesis 9:19)
And I will bless those who bless you [Abraham], and the one who curses you I will curse, and all the
families of the earth shall be blessed in you (Genesis 12:3)
And Abraham will become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the world will be blessed in
him (Genesis 18:18)
And Abraham approached and said, "Will You even destroy the righteous with the wicked? Perhaps there
are fifty righteous men in the midst of the city; will You even destroy and not forgive the place for the
sake of the fifty righteous men who are in its midst? (Genesis 18:23-24)
Far be it from You to do a thing such as this, to put to death the righteous with the wicked so that the
righteous should be like the wicked. Far be it from You! Will the Judge of the entire earth not perform
justice?" And the Lord said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous men within the city, I will forgive the entire
place for their sake (Genesis 18:26)
And through your children shall be blessed all the nations of the world, because you hearkened to My
voice. (Genesis 22:18)
Nevi'im
And also to the stranger, who (is) not of Your people Israel, but will come from a far country for the sake
of Your Name.For they shall hear of Your great Name, and of Your mighty hand, and of Your outstretched
arm, and he will come and pray toward this house. You shall hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do

3. according to all that the stranger calls You for, that all peoples of the earth may know Your Name, to fear
You, as (do) Your people Israel, and that they may know that Your Name is called upon this house that I
have built (1° Kings 8:41-42-43)
And Naaman said, "Now, if only your servant be given a load of earth as carried by a team of mules, for
your servant will no longer offer up a burnt-offering or a sacrifice to other deities, but to the Lord (2°
Kings 8:41-42-43)
And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, "O Lord God of Israel, Who dwells between the cherubim,
You alone are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth (2° Kings
19:15)
And now, O Lord our God, please deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know
that You are the Lord God alone (2° Kings 19:19)
And it shall be at the end of the days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be firmly established at
the top of the mountains, and it shall be raised above the hills, and all the nations shall stream to
it (Isaiah 2:2)
And many peoples shall go, and they shall say, Come, let us go up to the Lord's mount, to the house of the
God of Jacob, and let Him teach us of His ways, and we will go in His paths, for out of Zion shall the Torah
come forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem (Isaiah 2:3)
And he shall judge between the nations and reprove many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into
plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift the sword against nation, neither
shall they learn war anymore (Isaiah 2:4)
They shall neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mount, for the land shall be full of knowledge of the
Lord as water covers the sea bed (Isaiah 11:9)
And it shall come to pass on that day, that the root of Jesse, which stands as a banner for peoples, to him
shall the nations inquire, and his peace shall be [with] honor .(Isaiah 11:10)
“And I will visit evil upon the earth, and upon the wicked their iniquity; and I will cut off the pride of the
presumptuous, and the arrogance of the tyrants I will humble.” (Isaiah 13:11)
Therefore, for the lights honor the Lord; in the islands of the sea, the Name of the Lord God of Israel
(Isaiah 24:15)
And it shall come to pass on that day, that the Lord shall visit punishment upon the host of heaven on
high and upon the kings of the earth on the earth (Isaiah 24:21)

4. Therefore, shall a strong people honor You; a city of tyrannical nations shall fear You. (Isaiah 25:3)
[With] my soul I longed for you at night; even [with] my spirit within me I beseeched You, for when Your
judgments [come] to the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn justification (Isaiah 26:09)
And now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that
You are the Lord alone (Isaiah 37:20)
Behold My servant, I will support him, My chosen one, whom My soul desires; I have placed My spirit
upon him, he shall promulgate justice to the nations (Isaiah 42:1)
Sing to the Lord a new song, His praise from the end of the earth, those who go down to the sea and those
therein, the islands and their inhabitants (Isaiah 42:10)
In order that they know from the shining of the sun and from the west that there is no one besides Me; I
am the Lord and there is no other. (Isaiah 45:6)
Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is no other (Isaiah 45:22)
By Myself I swore, righteousness emanated from My mouth, a word, and it shall not be retracted, that to
Me shall every knee kneel, every tongue shall swear (Isaiah 45:23)
And He said, "It is too light for you to be My servant, to establish the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the
besieged of Israel, but I will make you a light of nations, so that My salvation shall be until the end of the
earth (Isaiah 49:06)
Hearken to Me, My people, and My nation, bend your ears to Me, when Torah shall emanate from Me,
and My judgment [shall be] for the light of the peoples, I will give [them] rest (Isaiah 51:4)
My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth, and My arms shall chasten peoples; islands shall
wait for Me, and on My arm shall they trust (Isaiah 51:5)
For your Master is your Maker, the Lord of Hosts is His name, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
shall be called the God of all the earth (Isaiah 54:5)
I will bring them to My holy mount, and I will cause them to rejoice in My house of prayer, their burnt
offerings and their sacrifices shall be acceptable upon My altar, for My house shall be called a house of
prayer for all peoples (Isaiah 56:7)

5. And nations shall go by your light and kings by the brilliance of your shine (Isaiah 60:3)
When I had not yet formed you in the womb, I knew you, and when you had not yet emerged from the
womb, I had appointed you; a prophet to the nations I made you (Jeremiah 1:5)
Pour out Your wrath upon the nations that do not know You and upon the families that have not called in
Your name, for they have devoured Jacob and consumed him and destroyed him, and have wasted his
dwelling (Jeremiah 10:25)
Lord, Who are my power and my strength and my refuge in the day of trouble, to You nations will come
from the ends of the earth and say, "Only lies have our fathers handed down to us, emptiness in which
there is nothing of any avail!, Can a man make gods for himself, and they are no gods? (Jeremiah 16:19-
20)
One instant I may speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to uproot and to demolish and to
destroy. And when that nation repents of its evil for which I spoke concerning it, I will repent of the evil
that I thought to do to it (Jeremiah 18:7-8)
And at one instant I may speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant, and
it will do what is evil in My eyes, not to hearken to My voice, I will repent of the good I said to benefit
it (Jeremiah 18:9-10)
“Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything concealed from Me?” (Jeremiah 32:27)
At that time, they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the Lord, and all nations shall gather to it in the name
of the Lord, to Jerusalem, and they shall no longer follow the idea of their evil heart (Jeremiah 3:17)
Sound a shophar in Zion and sound an alarm in My holy mountain; all the inhabitants of the land shall
quake, for the day of the Lord has come, for it is near" (Joel 2:1)
Peoples quake from before it; all faces gather blackness (Joel 2:6)
Gather and come, all you nations from around, and they shall gather; there the Lord shall break your
mighty men (Joel 4:11)
The nations shall be aroused and shall go up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all
the nations from around (Joel 4:12)
Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim against it, for their evil has come before Me (Jonah 1:2)

6. And the people of Nineveh believed in God, and they proclaimed a fast and donned sackcloth, from their
greatest to their smallest. And the word reached the king of Nineveh, whereupon he rose from his throne,
took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat on the ashes. (Jonah 3:5-6)
Now should I not take pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are many more than one hundred
twenty thousand people who do not know their right hand from their left, and many beasts as
well? (Jonah 4:11)
And it shall be at the end of the days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be firmly established at
the top of the mountains, and it shall be raised above the hills, and peoples shall stream upon it (Micah
4:1)
And many nations shall go, and they shall say, "Come, let us go up to the Lord's mount and to the house of
the God of Jacob, and let Him teach us of His ways, and we will go in His paths," for out of Zion shall the
Torah come forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem (Micah 4:2)
And he shall judge between many peoples and reprove mighty nations afar off; and they shall beat their
swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nations shall not lift the sword against
nation; neither shall they learn war anymore (Micah 4:3)
And in anger and fury I will execute vengeance upon the nations who have paid no heed (Micah 5:14)
Mountains quaked because of him and the hills melted, and the land raised up from before Him-and the
inhabited earth and all who dwell thereon (Nahum 1:5)
The Lord shall be feared by them, for He weakened all the gods of the earth. And every man shall
prostrate himself to Him from his place, all the isles of the nations (Zephaniah 2:11)
For then I will convert the peoples to a pure language that all of them call in the name of the Lord, to
worship Him of one accord. (Zephaniah 3:9)
So said the Lord of Hosts: [There will] yet [be a time] that peoples and the inhabitants of many cities shall
come. And the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, "Let us go to pray before the Lord and to
entreat the Lord of Hosts. I, too, will go (Zachary 8:20-21)
And many peoples and powerful nations shall come to entreat the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray
before the Lord. (Zachary 8:22)
So said the Lord of Hosts: In those days, when ten men of all the languages of the nations shall take hold
of the skirt of a Jewish man, saying, Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you (Zachary
8:23)

7. And the Lord shall become King over all the earth; on that day shall the Lord be one, and His name one
(Zachary 14:9)
And it will come to pass that everyone left of the nations who came up against Jerusalem will go up from
year to year to prostrate himself to the King, the Lord of Hosts, and to celebrate the festival of
Tabernacles (Zachary 14:16)
And it shall be that whoever of all the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to prostrate
himself to the King, the Lord of Hosts-upon them there shall be no rain (Zachary 14:17)
And if the family of Egypt does not go up and does not come, it shall not [rain] upon them. The plague [on
Egypt] will be [the same as] that with which the Lord will plague the nations who do not go up to
celebrate the festival of Tabernacles (Zachary 14:18)
Such will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate
the festival of Tabernacles (Zachary 14:19)
And your eyes shall see, and you shall say, "The Lord is great beyond the border of Israel (Malachi 1:5)
Ketuvim
May the Lord judge the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to my
innocence, which is upon me (Psalms 7:9)
Lord, our Master, how mighty is Your name in all the earth! (Psalms 8:10)
The Lord is in His Holy Temple. The Lord-His throne is in Heaven; His eyes see, His pupils try the sons of
men (Psalms 11:4)
The Lord tries the righteous, but His soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence (Psalms 11:5)
The Lord in Heaven looked down upon the sons of men to see whether there is a man of understanding,
who seeks the Lord (Psalms 14:2)
Their line goes forth throughout the earth, and their words are at the end of the world; for the sun He
made a tent therein (Psalms 19:5)
All the ends of the earth shall remember and return to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall
prostrate themselves before You. (Psalms 22:28)

8. Of David, a song. The land and the fullness thereof are the Lord's; the world and those who dwell
therein (Psalms 24:1)
He loves charity and justice; the earth is full of the Lord's kindness (Psalms 33:5)
Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him (Psalms 33:8)
From His dwelling place He oversees all the inhabitants of the earth He Who forms their hearts together,
who understands all their deeds (Psalms 33:14-15)
How precious is Your kindness, O God, and the sons of man will take refuge in the shadow of Your
wings (Psalms 36:8)
For evildoers shall be cut off, and those who hope for the Lord-they will inherit the land. (Psalms 37:9)
From the Lord a mighty man's steps are established, for He delights in his way (Psalms 37:23)
The Lord knows the days of the innocent, and their inheritance will be forever. (Pslams 37:18)
The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell forever in it (Psalms 37:29)
A song of Asaph; God, God the Lord, spoke and called to the earth, from the rising of the sun until its
setting (Psalms 50:1)
God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see whether there is a man of understanding,
who seeks God (Psalms 53:3)
God will be gracious to us and bless us; He will cause His countenance to shine with us forever. (Psalms
67:2)
That Your way should be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations. (Psalms 67:3)
Peoples will thank You, O God; peoples will thank You, yea, all of them. (Psalms 67:4)
Kingdoms will rejoice and sing praises, for You will judge peoples fairly, and the kingdoms-You will lead
them on earth forever. (Psalms 67:5)

9. God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear Him. (Psalms 67:7)
Gifts will be brought from Egypt; Cush will cause his hands to run to God (Psalms 68:31)
And all kings will prostrate themselves to him; may all nations serve him (Psalms 72:11)
Arise, O God, judge the earth, for You inherit all the nations (Psalms 82:8)
All nations that You made will come and prostrate themselves before You, O Lord, and glorify Your name.
(Psalms 86:9)
You bring man to the crushing point, and You say, "Return, O sons of men (Psalms 90:3)
Prostrate yourselves to the Lord in the majestic sanctuary; quake before Him, all the earth (Psalms 96:0)
Tell of His glory among the nations, among all peoples His wonders” (Psalms 96:3)
Ascribe to the Lord, [you] families of peoples, ascribe to the Lord glory and might (Psalms 96:7)
Say among the nations, "The Lord has reigned." Also the inhabited world will be established so that it will
not falter; He will judge peoples with equity (Psalms 96:10)
Before the Lord, for He has come, for He has come to judge the earth; He will judge the inhabited world
justly and the peoples with His faith (Psalms 96:13)
He remembered His kindness and His faith to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the
salvation of our God. (Psalms 98:3)
Before the Lord, for He has come to judge the earth; He will judge the inhabited world justly and the
peoples with equity (Psalms 98:9)
A song for a thanksgiving offering. Shout to the Lord, all the earth (Psalms 100:1)
For the Lord is good; His kindness is forever, and until generation after generation is His faith (Psalm
100:5)
When peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to serve the Lord (Psalms 102:23)

10. Bless the Lord, all His works, in all the places of His dominion; my soul, bless the Lord.(Psalms 103:22)
Give thanks to the Lord, call out in His name; make His deeds known among the peoples (Psalms 105:1)
From the rising of the sun until its setting, the name of the Lord is praised.(Psalms 113:3)
The Lord is high over all nations; upon the heavens is His glory (Psalms 113:4)
The heavens are heavens of the Lord, but the earth He gave to the children of men (Psalms 115:16)
Praise the Lord, all nations, laud Him, all peoples (Psalms 117:1)
The house of Israel, bless the Lord; the house of Aaron, bless the Lord.The house of the Levites, bless the
Lord; those who fear the Lord, bless the Lord (Pslams 135:19-20)
Lord, all the kings of the earth will acknowledge You, for they heard the words of Your mouth (Psalms
138:4)
The Lord is good to all, and His mercies are on all His works (Psalms 145:9)
To make known to the children of men His mighty deeds and the glory of the majesty of His kingdom
(Psalms 145:12)
The Lord is near to all who call Him, to all who call Him with sincerity (Psalms 145:18)
Kings of the earth and all kingdoms, princes and all judges of the earth. (Psalms 148:11)
Will praise the name of the Lord, for His name alone is powerful; His splendor is on earth and heaven.
(Psalms 148:13)
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain therein. (Proverbs 2:21)
The righteous will not collapse forever, but the wicked shall not dwell in the land. (Proverbs 10:30)
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was sincere and upright, God-
fearing and shunning evil. (Job 1:1)