Deuteronomy 4:27

New American Bible - revised edition

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and there shall remain but a handful of you among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.”

Genesis 34:30

Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: “You have brought trouble upon me by making me repugnant to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I have so few men that, if these people unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be wiped out.”

Nehemiah 1:3

They answered me: “The survivors of the captivity there in the province are in great distress and under reproach. The wall of Jerusalem has been breached, its gates gutted by fire.”

Psalm 106:27

And scatter their descendants among the nations, disperse them in foreign lands.

Psalm 44:11

You make us retreat before the foe; those who hate us plunder us at will.

Psalm 44:12

You hand us over like sheep to be slaughtered, scatter us among the nations.

Isaiah 17:6

Only gleanings shall be left in it, as when an olive tree has been beaten— Two or three olives at the very top, four or five on its most fruitful branches— oracle of the Lord, the God of Israel.

Jeremiah 16:13

I will throw you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your ancestors have known; there you can serve other gods day and night because I will not show you mercy. Return from Exile.

Ezekiel 11:16

Therefore say: Thus says the Lord God: I have indeed sent them far away among the nations, scattered them over the lands, and have been but little sanctuary for them in the lands to which they have gone.

Ezekiel 12:15

Then they shall know that I am the Lord, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

Ezekiel 20:23

Nevertheless I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them in other lands,

Ezekiel 22:15

I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you over other lands, so that I may purge your filth.

Ezekiel 32:26

There is Meshech and Tubal and all the hordes surrounding it with their graves. All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword Because they spread their terror in the land of the living.

Daniel 9:7

Justice, O Lord, is on your side; we are shamefaced even to this day: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel, near and far, in all the lands to which you have scattered them because of their treachery toward you.

Hosea 9:17

My God will disown them because they have not listened to him; they will be wanderers among the nations.

Leviticus 26:33

And you I will scatter among the nations at the point of my drawn sword, leaving your countryside desolate and your cities deserted.

Zechariah 7:14

And I will scatter them among all the nations that they do not know. So the land was left desolate behind them with no one moving about, and they made a pleasant land into a wasteland.

Deuteronomy 28:36

The Lord will bring you, and your king whom you have set over you, to a nation which you and your ancestors have not known, and there you will serve other gods, of wood and stone,

Deuteronomy 29:28

The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things are for us and for our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 30:3

the Lord, your God, will restore your fortunes and will have compassion on you; he will again gather you from all the peoples where the Lord, your God, has scattered you.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I said: I will make an end of them and blot out their name from human memory,