In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He placed them in Halah and Habor, on the Gozan River, and in the towns of the Medes.
Psalm 44:11 - Tree of Life Version You make us retreat before the enemy. Those who hate us have plundered us. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He placed them in Halah and Habor, on the Gozan River, and in the towns of the Medes.
and disperse their offspring among the nations, and scatter them through the lands.
“Will evildoers never understand— those who consume My people as they eat bread— and never call on Adonai?”
For the music director, on the “Lily of the Covenant,” a Michtam of David, for teaching,
But You have known me, Adonai. You see me, and examine my heart toward You. Drag them off like sheep for slaughter. Set them apart for the day of carnage.
“See, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them in My anger, My fury, and great wrath, and I will bring them back to this place and cause them to dwell securely.
As a shepherd seeks out his sheep on the day he is among his scattered flock, so I will seek out My sheep. I will rescue them out of all the places where they have been scattered, on a day of cloud and thick darkness.
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
As it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.”
“Adonai will scatter you among all peoples from the one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods—wood and stone—that you and your fathers have not known.
Adonai will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Adonai will drive you.
So the anger of Adonai burned against Israel, and He gave them over to the hands of plunderers who plundered them, and He sold them over into the hand of their enemies around them, so that they could no longer stand up before their enemies.