If you try to grow crops, the soil will not produce anything; you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."

You are driving me off the land and away from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me."

He ran away, but they chased him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

Adonibezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. God has now done to me what I did to them." He was taken to Jerusalem, where he died.

Yes, the living know they are going to die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward; they are completely forgotten.

"When I scatter them among the other nations and in foreign countries, they will know that I am the LORD.

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."

If some survive and save their children, look at them when they come to you. See how evil they are, and be convinced that the punishment I am bringing on Jerusalem is justified;

then you will know that there was good reason for everything I did." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.

During those five months they will seek death, but will not find it; they will want to die, but death will flee from them.

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

So God will ruin you forever; he will take hold of you and snatch you from your home; he will remove you from the world of the living.

I will bring war on you and scatter you in foreign lands. Your land will be deserted, and your cities left in ruins.

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.

then the LORD your God will have mercy on you. He will bring you back from the nations where he has scattered you, and he will make you prosperous again.

Even if you are scattered to the farthest corners of the earth, the LORD your God will gather you together and bring you back,

"When I scatter them among the other nations and in foreign countries, they will know that I am the LORD.

He has stretched out his mighty arm and scattered the proud with all their plans.

He has brought down mighty kings from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly.

Then those who are in Judea must run away to the hills; those who are in the city must leave, and those who are out in the country must not go into the city.

Yes, look at them and bring them down; crush the wicked where they stand.

But you, O LORD, are always my shield from danger; you give me victory and restore my courage.

The LORD is our protector and glorious king, blessing us with kindness and honor. He does not refuse any good thing to those who do what is right.