You have increased the nation, O Yahweh. You have increased the nation! You are glorified! You have enlarged all the borders of the land.

Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation thou art glorified thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.

We are a doomed nation.

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Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter the one which keeps faith.

Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,

Righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people.

Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired

The nation's philosophy of defence is one of diplomacy and deterrence.

You are cursed with the curse for you rob me, even this whole nation.

Ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish yes, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

These risks directly affect the sustainability of this nation and its continuity.

But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, says Yahweh.

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.

And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.

I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,

And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

The Islamic New Year begins with the first day of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic calendar.

What we call today Islamic Law, and especially Islamic culture and there are many Islamic cultures actually the one in Saudi Arabia is much different from where I come from in Istanbul or Turkey.

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 spoil.

As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.

nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.

Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.

Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

This was the end of one of Ruhollha's children.

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Najibeh Salehzadeh explained

Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

But he was also considerably more conservative, considerably more anti foreign, considerably more Islamist than we'd like to acknowledge.

So what might look like a problem within Islamic faith might turn out to be a tradition that Muslims have subscribed to.

Some women may wear it in submission to their husbands, but many women wear it as a sign of faith in and respect for the Islamic code.

Several Iranian bloggers published parts of his speech and shared their opinions on this exceptional event in the Islamic Republic.

... the status quo, continuing the present situation and making Iran a second Pakistan, or renewing the Islamic Republic.

All of this was commissioned by the extreme Islamic policies, presenting Serbs as criminals, killers, murderers and rapists, and Muslims as the only victims.