Jeremiah 9:16

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

I will scatter the people of Judah throughout other nations. They will live in strange nations that they and their fathers never knew about. I will send men with swords. They will kill the people of Judah. They will kill them until all the people are gone.”

Cross References

Ezekiel 5:12

A third of your people will die inside the city from diseases and hunger. Another third will die in battle outside the city. And then I will pull out my sword and chase the last third of your people into faraway countries.

Deuteronomy 28:64

The Lord will scatter you among all the people in the world. He will scatter you from one end of the earth to the other. There you will serve false gods made of wood and stone. They are false gods that you or your ancestors never worshiped.

Leviticus 26:33

I will scatter you among the nations. I will pull out my sword and destroy you. Your land will become empty, and your cities will be destroyed.

Jeremiah 44:27

I am watching over the people of Judah, but I am not watching over them to take care of them. I am watching over them to bring them harm. The people of Judah who live in Egypt will die from hunger or be killed in war until they are completely destroyed.

Jeremiah 13:24

“I will force you to leave your homes. You will run in all directions. You will be like chaff blown away by the desert wind.

James 1:1

Greetings from James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. To God’s people who are scattered all over the world.

Zechariah 7:14

I will bring the other nations against them like a storm. They didn’t know those nations, but the country will be destroyed after those nations pass through. This pleasant country will be destroyed.”

Ezekiel 20:23

So I made another promise to those people in the desert. I promised to scatter them among the nations, to send them to many different countries.

Ezekiel 14:17

“Or I might send an enemy army to fight against that country. The soldiers would destroy that country—I would remove all the people and animals from that country.

Ezekiel 12:15

Then they will know that I am the Lord. They will know that I scattered them among the nations. They will know that I forced them to go to other countries.

Ezekiel 11:17

But you must tell those people that the Lord GOD will bring them back. I have scattered you among many nations, but I will gather you together and bring you back from those nations. I will give the land of Israel back to you.

Jeremiah 29:17

The Lord All-Powerful says, “I will soon bring war, hunger, and disease against those who are still in Jerusalem. And I will make them the same as bad figs that are too rotten to eat.

Jeremiah 25:27

“Jeremiah, say to those nations, this is what the Lord All-Powerful, the God of the people of Israel, says: ‘Drink this cup of my anger. Get drunk from it and vomit. Fall down and don’t get up. Don’t get up because I am bringing wars against you.’

Jeremiah 24:10

I will bring war, famine, and disease against them. I will attack them until they have all been killed. Then they will no longer be on the land that I gave to them and to their ancestors.”

Psalm 106:27

He promised to scatter them among the nations and to let other people defeat their descendants.

Nehemiah 1:8

“Please remember the teaching you gave your servant Moses. You said to him, ‘If you Israelites are not faithful, I will force you to be scattered among the other nations.

Deuteronomy 32:26

“‘I thought about destroying the Israelites so that people would forget them completely!

Deuteronomy 28:36

“The Lord will send you and your king away to a nation you don’t know. You and your ancestors have never seen that nation. There you will serve false gods made of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 28:25

“The Lord will let your enemies defeat you. You will go to fight against your enemies one way, but you will run away from them seven different ways. The bad things that happen to you will make all the people on earth afraid.

Deuteronomy 4:27

The Lord will scatter you among the nations. And only a few of you will be left alive to go to the countries where the Lord will send you.

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen to my people. Everywhere in this country, people are crying for help. They say, “Is the Lord still at Zion? Is Zion’s King still there?” But God says, “The people of Judah worshiped their worthless foreign idols. That made me very angry! Why did they do that?”

Ecclesiastes 12:5

You will be afraid of high places. You will be afraid of tripping over every small thing in your path. Your hair will become white like the flowers on an almond tree. You will drag yourself along like a grasshopper when you walk. You will lose your desire, and then you will go to your eternal home. The mourners will gather in the streets as they carry your body to the grave.

Jeremiah 7:29

“Jeremiah, cut off your hair and throw it away. Go up to the bare hilltop and cry, because the Lord has rejected this generation of people. He has turned his back on these people. And in anger he will punish them.

Ezekiel 27:2

“Son of man, sing this sad song about Tyre.

Amos 5:16

The Lord, the Lord God All-Powerful says, “People will be crying in the public places. They will be crying in the streets. They will hire the professional criers.

Micah 2:4

Then people will sing songs about you. They will sing this sad song: ‘We are ruined! The Lord took away our land and gave it to other people. Yes, he took my land away from me. He has divided our fields among our enemies.