Ezekiel 5:10
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10 Surely, parents shall eat their children in your midst, and children shall eat their parents; I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to every wind.(A)
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Zechariah 2:6
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Interlude: An Appeal to the Exiles
6 Up, up! Flee from the land of the north, says the Lord, for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.(A)
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Ezekiel 12:14
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14 I will scatter to every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops, and I will unsheathe the sword behind them.(A)
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Jeremiah 19:9
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9 And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and all shall eat the flesh of their neighbors in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:64
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64 The Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.(A)
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Leviticus 26:29
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29 You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.(A)
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Ezekiel 36:19
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19 I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries; in accordance with their conduct and their deeds I judged them.(A)
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Ezekiel 5:2
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2 One third of the hair you shall burn in the fire inside the city when the days of the siege are completed; one third you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city;[a] and one third you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.(A)
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Psalm 44:11
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11 You have made us like sheep for slaughter
and have scattered us among the nations.(A)
Zechariah 7:14
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14 and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and a pleasant land was made desolate.”(A)
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Amos 9:9
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9 For I will command
and shake the house of Israel among all the nations,
as one shakes with a sieve
but no pebble shall fall to the ground.(A)
Ezekiel 22:15
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15 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will purge your filthiness out of you.(A)
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Ezekiel 6:8
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8 But I will spare some. Some of you shall escape the sword among the nations and be scattered through the countries.(A)
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Ezekiel 5:12
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12 One third of you shall die of pestilence or be consumed by famine among you; one third shall fall by the sword around you; and one third I will scatter to every wind and will unsheathe the sword after them.(A)
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Lamentations 4:10
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10 The hands of compassionate women
have boiled their own children;
they became their food
in the destruction of my people.(A)
Lamentations 2:20
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20 Look, O Lord, and consider!
To whom have you done this?
Should women eat their offspring,
the children they have borne?
Should priest and prophet be killed
in the sanctuary of the Lord?(A)
Jeremiah 9:16
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16 I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.(A)
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Leviticus 26:33
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33 And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword against you; your land shall be a desolation and your cities a waste.(A)
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Luke 21:24
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24 they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the times of the nations are fulfilled.(A)
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Ezekiel 20:23
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23 Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,(A)
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Jeremiah 50:17
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17 Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured it, and now at the end King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon has gnawed its bones.(A)
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Jeremiah 44:12
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12 I will take the remnant of Judah who are determined to come to the land of Egypt to settle, and they shall perish, everyone; in the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine they shall perish; from the least to the greatest, they shall die by the sword and by famine; and they shall become an object of execration and horror, of cursing and ridicule.(A)
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Isaiah 49:26
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26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh,
and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine.
Then all flesh shall know
that I am the Lord your Savior
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.(A)
Isaiah 9:20
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20 They gorged on the right but still were hungry,
and they devoured on the left but were not satisfied;
they devoured the flesh of their own kindred;[a](A)
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Nehemiah 1:8
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8 Remember the word that you commanded Moses your servant, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples,(A)
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