“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.”

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

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.”