'Nations' in the Bible

a light to the uncovering of nations, and the glory of Thy people Israel.'

for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;

for he shall be delivered up to the nations, and shall be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon,

and they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and shall be led captive to all the nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by nations, till the times of nations be fulfilled.

And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land is distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;

And he said to them, 'The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors;

and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem: