Patriotism: General Scriptures Concerning
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Deuteronomy 26:1–11
When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and settle in it, / you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name, / to the priest who is serving at that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.”
Judges 5:1–31
On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song: / “When the princes take the lead in Israel, when the people volunteer, bless the LORD. / Listen, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.
Psalm 51:18
In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalm 85:1–13
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. You showed favor to Your land, O LORD; You restored Jacob from captivity. / You forgave the iniquity of Your people; You covered all their sin. Selah / You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.
Psalm 122:6, 7
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you prosper. / May there be peace within your walls, and prosperity inside your fortresses.”
Psalm 128:5, 6
May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life, / that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
Psalm 137:1–6
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. / There on the willows we hung our harps, / for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”
Isaiah 62:1
For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.
Jeremiah 8:11, 21, 22
They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all. / For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me. / Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
Jeremiah 9:1, 2
Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people. / If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
Lamentations 5:1–22
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace! / Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. / We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.