Deuteronomy 4:27

New English Translation

Then the Lord will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the Lord will drive you.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”

Genesis 34:30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought ruin on me by making me a foul odor among the inhabitants of the land – among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!”

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, “The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!”

Psalm 106:27

make their descendants die among the nations, and scatter them among foreign lands.

Psalm 44:11

You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.

Psalm 44:12

You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them.

Isaiah 17:6

There will be some left behind, like when an olive tree is beaten – two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top, four or five on its fruitful branches,” says the Lord God of Israel.

Jeremiah 16:13

So I will throw you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your ancestors have ever known. There you must worship other gods day and night, for I will show you no mercy.’”

Ezekiel 11:16

“Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’

Ezekiel 12:15

“Then they will know that I am the Lord when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among foreign countries.

Ezekiel 20:23

I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.

Ezekiel 22:15

I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.

Ezekiel 32:26

“Meshech-Tubal is there, along with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for they spread their terror in the land of the living.

Daniel 9:7

“You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day – the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.

Hosea 9:17

My God will reject them, for they have not obeyed him; so they will be fugitives among the nations.

Leviticus 26:33

I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

Zechariah 7:14

‘Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.’ Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste.”

Deuteronomy 28:36

The Lord will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.

Deuteronomy 29:28

So the Lord has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.”

Deuteronomy 30:3

the Lord your God will reverse your captivity and have pity on you. He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom he has scattered you.

Deuteronomy 32:26

“I said, ‘I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.