And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries. I will consume your filthiness out of you.
- BSB I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.
- NKJV I will scatter you among the nations, disperse you throughout the countries, and remove your filthiness completely from you.
- NASB And I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among the lands, and I will eliminate your uncleanness from you.
- NLT I will scatter you among the nations and purge you of your wickedness.
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Quick answer
God will scatter Jerusalem among the nations and consume her filthiness out of her. Exile will serve both as punishment and as purging.
Overview
Dispersion among the nations is the announced judgment, fulfilling earlier covenant warnings (Lev. 26:33). Yet it carries a refining purpose: to consume her uncleanness. This blend of judgment and purification points to God's deeper aim to purge His people from sin, fully accomplished only in Christ's cleansing work.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 23
- Neh 1:8Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
- Ezek 22:22As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.
- Deut 4:27And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
- Zech 7:14But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
- Lev 26:33And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
- Ezek 36:19And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
- Ezek 20:38And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
- Ezek 22:18Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
- Jer 15:4And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
- Mal 4:1For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
- Ezek 23:47–48And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
- Mal 3:3And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
- 1 Pet 4:12Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
- Zech 13:9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
- Deut 28:64And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
- Deut 28:25The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Ezek 34:6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
- Ezek 24:6–14Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
- Ezek 5:12A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
- Matt 3:12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
- Isa 1:25And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
- Ezek 23:27Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
- Ezek 12:14–15And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
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