I destroyed all nations before them and scattered in the east the peoples of two provinces, Tyre and Sidon; I killed all their enemies.

Israel’s Disobedience and Rejection

“What shall I do to you, O Jacob? You, Judah, would not obey me. I will turn to other nations and will give them my name, so that they may keep my statutes.

Let them be scattered among the nations; let their names be blotted out from the earth, because they have despised my covenant.

The nations shall envy you, but they shall not be able to do anything against you, says the Lord.

Therefore I say to you, O nations that hear and understand, “Wait for your shepherd; he will give you everlasting rest, because he who will come at the end of the age is close at hand.

And you laid upon him one commandment of yours, but he transgressed it, and immediately you appointed death for him and for his descendants. From him there sprang nations and tribes, peoples and clans without number.

“When those who lived on earth began to multiply, they produced children and peoples and many nations, and again they began to be more ungodly than were their ancestors.

Yet their reward has not appeared, and their labor has borne no fruit. For I have traveled widely among the nations and have seen that they abound in wealth, though they are unmindful of your commandments.

You may indeed find individuals who have kept your commandments, but nations you will not find.”

For I did not wish to inquire about the ways above but about those things that we daily experience: why Israel has been given over to the nations in disgrace; why the people whom you loved has been given over to godless tribes and the law of our ancestors has been brought to destruction and the written covenants no longer exist.

The dumb and lifeless water produced living creatures, as it was commanded, so that therefore the nations might declare your wondrous works.

As for the other nations that have descended from Adam, you have said that they are nothing and that they are like spittle, and you have compared their abundance to a drop from a bucket.

And now, O Lord, these nations, which are reputed to be as nothing, domineer over us and devour us.

Then the Most High will say to the nations that have been raised from the dead, ‘Look now, and understand whom you have denied, whom you have not served, whose commandments you have despised.

So when there shall appear in the world earthquakes, tumult of peoples, intrigues of nations, wavering of leaders, confusion of princes,

“Then, when all the nations hear his voice, all the nations shall leave their own lands and the warfare that they have against one another,

Then he, my Son, will reprove the assembled nations for their ungodliness (this was symbolized by the storm)

But they formed this plan for themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the nations and go to a more distant region where no humans had ever lived,

Therefore when he destroys the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he will defend the people who remain.

The nations of the dragons of Arabia shall come out with many chariots, and from the day that they set out their hissing shall spread over the earth, so that all who hear them will fear and tremble.