The LORD will scatter you among other nations, where only a few of you will survive.

"The LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.

Your life will always be in danger. Day and night you will be filled with terror, and you will live in constant fear of death.

You allowed us to be slaughtered like sheep; you scattered us in foreign countries.

I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have heard about, and I will send armies against them until I have completely destroyed them."

Judah's people are helpless slaves, forced away from home. They live in other lands, with no place to call their own--- Surrounded by enemies, with no way to escape.

"Get away!" people shouted. "You're defiled! Don't touch me!" So they wandered from nation to nation, welcomed by no one.

I will scatter in every direction all the members of his court and his advisers and bodyguards, and people will search for them to kill them.

I will let a few of them survive the war, the famine, and the diseases, so that there among the nations they will realize how disgusting their actions have been and will acknowledge that I am the LORD."

So I made another vow in the desert. I vowed that I would scatter them all over the world.

I will scatter your people to every country and nation and will put an end to your evil actions.

Like a storm I swept them away to live in foreign countries. This good land was left a desolate place, with no one living in it."

Some will be killed by the sword, and others will be taken as prisoners to all countries; and the heathen will trample over Jerusalem until their time is up.

From James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: Greetings to all God's people scattered over the whole world.