You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
Parallel translations
- WEB You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.
- KJV And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
- NKJV You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
- NASB Instead, you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you.
- NLT You will die among the foreign nations and be devoured in the land of your enemies.
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Quick answer
Israel will perish among the nations, swallowed up in enemy lands. Exile threatens the very survival of the people.
Overview
To 'perish among the nations' and be 'eaten up' by enemy lands describes the wasting away of the exiled people far from home. This is the grim low point of the curses. Yet the survival of a remnant, promised in the verses that follow, testifies to God's covenant mercy that judgment never fully extinguishes.
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- Jer 42:17–18So all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’
- Jer 42:22Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”
- Deut 28:68The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
- Isa 27:13And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
- Jer 44:12–14And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.
- Deut 4:26–27I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
- Deut 28:48you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
- Jer 44:27–28I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.
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