In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria captured Samaria; he carried the Israelites away to Assyria. He placed them in Halah, on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Psalm 44:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; And hast scattered us among the heathen. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You have made us like sheep intended for mutton and have scattered us in exile among the nations. American Standard Version (1901) Thou hast made us like sheep appointed for food, And hast scattered us among the nations. Common English Bible You’ve handed us over like sheep for butchering; you’ve scattered us among the nations. Catholic Public Domain Version Listen, daughter, and see, and incline your ear. And forget your people and your father's house. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy people and thy father's house. |
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria captured Samaria; he carried the Israelites away to Assyria. He placed them in Halah, on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
and would disperse their descendants among the nations, scattering them over the lands.
Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord?
O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; now restore us!
But you, O Lord, know me; you see me and test me; my heart is with you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
See, I am going to gather them from all the lands to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation; I will bring them back to this place, and I will settle them in safety.
As shepherds sort out their flocks when they are among scattered sheep, so I will sort out my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places to which they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.
they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the times of the nations are fulfilled.
As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”
The Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.
The Lord will scatter you among the peoples; only a few of you will be left among the nations where the Lord will lead you.
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers who plundered them, and he sold them into the power of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.