³³ But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

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

¹⁵ For the Lord will strike Israel so that they will^[a] shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that he gave to their ancestors.^(A) He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates^(B) because they made their Asherah poles, angering the Lord.^(C)

⁸ Please remember what you commanded your servant Moses: “If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples.^(A)

⁸ Then Haman informed King Ahasuerus, “There is one ethnic group, scattered throughout the peoples in every province of your kingdom,^(A) keeping themselves separate. Their laws are different from everyone else’s and they do not obey the king’s laws.^(B) It is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.^(C)

¹⁶ I will scatter them among the nations^(A) that they and their ancestors have not known. I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

⁸ “Yet I will leave a remnant when you are scattered among the nations, for throughout the countries there will be some of you who will escape the sword.^(A)