Congregation

And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.

Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.

Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.

The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.

On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;

For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.

I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

<<To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.>> Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.

Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

<<A Psalm of Asaph.>> God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.