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10 Parents will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter to the winds the few who survive.

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10 Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents.(A) I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.(B)

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The Exiles Are Called Home

The Lord says, “Come away! Flee from Babylon in the land of the north, for I have scattered you to the four winds.

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“Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the Lord, “for I have scattered(A) you to the four winds of heaven,”(B) declares the Lord.(C)

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14 I will scatter his servants and warriors to the four winds and send the sword after them.

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14 I will scatter to the winds all those around him—his staff and all his troops—and I will pursue them with drawn sword.(A)

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64 For the Lord will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship foreign gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods made of wood and stone!

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64 Then the Lord will scatter(A) you among all nations,(B) from one end of the earth to the other.(C) There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.(D)

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19 I scattered them to many lands to punish them for the evil way they had lived.

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19 I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered(A) through the countries; I judged them according to their conduct and their actions.(B)

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Place a third of it at the center of your map of Jerusalem. After acting out the siege, burn it there. Scatter another third across your map and chop it with a sword. Scatter the last third to the wind, for I will scatter my people with the sword.

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When the days of your siege come to an end, burn(A) a third(B) of the hair inside the city. Take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city. And scatter a third to the wind.(C) For I will pursue them with drawn sword.(D)

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I will see to it that your enemies lay siege to the city until all the food is gone. Then those trapped inside will eat their own sons and daughters and friends. They will be driven to utter despair.’

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I will make them eat(A) the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies(B) will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.’

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11 You have butchered us like sheep
    and scattered us among the nations.

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11 You gave us up to be devoured like sheep(A)
    and have scattered us among the nations.(B)

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29 Then you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

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29 You will eat(A) the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.(B)

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14 As with a whirlwind, I scattered them among the distant nations, where they lived as strangers. Their land became so desolate that no one even traveled through it. They turned their pleasant land into a desert.”

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14 ‘I scattered(A) them with a whirlwind(B) among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it.(C) This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.(D)’”

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“For I will give the command
    and will shake Israel along with the other nations
as grain is shaken in a sieve,
    yet not one true kernel will be lost.

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“For I will give the command,
    and I will shake the people of Israel
    among all the nations
as grain(A) is shaken in a sieve,(B)
    and not a pebble will reach the ground.(C)

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15 I will scatter you among the nations and purge you of your wickedness.

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15 I will disperse you among the nations and scatter(A) you through the countries; and I will put an end to(B) your uncleanness.(C)

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“But I will let a few of my people escape destruction, and they will be scattered among the nations of the world.

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“‘But I will spare some, for some of you will escape(A) the sword when you are scattered among the lands and nations.(B)

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