Deuteronomy 4:27

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

Genesis 34:30

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”

Nehemiah 1:3

They replied, “The remnant there in the province who escaped captivity are in great trouble and shame; the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been destroyed by fire.”

Psalm 106:27

and would disperse their descendants among the nations, scattering them over the lands.

Psalm 44:11

You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations.

Psalm 44:12

You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.

Isaiah 17:6

Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten— two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, says the Lord God of Israel.

Jeremiah 16:13

Therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.

Ezekiel 11:16

Therefore say: Thus says the Lord God: Though I removed them far away among the nations and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a little while in the countries where they have gone.

Ezekiel 12:15

And they shall know that I am the Lord when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries.

Ezekiel 20:23

Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,

Ezekiel 22:15

I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will purge your filthiness out of you.

Ezekiel 32:26

Meshech and Tubal are there, and all their multitude, their graves all around them, all of them uncircumcised, pierced by the sword, for they spread terror in the land of the living.

Daniel 9:7

“Righteousness is on your side, O Lord, but open shame, as at this day, falls on us, the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them because of the treachery that they have committed against you.

Hosea 9:17

Because they have not listened to him, my God will reject them; they shall become wanderers among the nations.

Leviticus 26:33

And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword against you; your land shall be a desolation and your cities a waste.

Zechariah 7:14

and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and a pleasant land was made desolate.”

Deuteronomy 28:36

The Lord will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known, where you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 29:28

The Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, fury, and great wrath and cast them into another land, as is now the case.’

Deuteronomy 30:3

then the Lord your God will return you from your captivity and have compassion on you, gathering you again from all the peoples among whom the Lord your God has scattered you.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I said, “I will make an end of them and blot out the memory of them from humankind,”