'Among the Nations' in the Bible

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.

You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.

I see them from the top of rocky cliffs,and I watch them from the hills.There is a people living alone;it does not consider itself among the nations.

Then Balaam saw Amalek and proclaimed his poem:Amalek was first among the nations,but his future is destruction.

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be reduced to a few survivors among the nations where the Lord your God will drive you.

Therefore I will praise You, Lord, among the nations;I will sing about Your name.

Declare His glory among the nations,His wonderful works among all peoples.

Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice,and let them say among the nations, “The Lord is King!”

In it was written:It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews plan to rebel. This is the reason you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king

Therefore I will praise You, Yahweh, among the nations;I will sing about Your name.

You hand us over to be eaten like sheepand scatter us among the nations.

You make us a joke among the nations,a laughingstock among the peoples.

“Stop your fighting—and know that I am God,exalted among the nations, exalted on the earth.”

I will praise You, Lord, among the peoples;I will sing praises to You among the nations.

Why should the nations ask,“Where is their God?”Before our eyes,let vengeance for the shed blood of Your servantsbe known among the nations.

Declare His glory among the nations,His wonderful works among all peoples.

Say among the nations: “The Lord reigns.The world is firmly established; it cannot be shaken.He judges the peoples fairly.”

and would disperse their descendantsamong the nations,scattering them throughout the lands.

I will praise You, Lord, among the peoples;I will sing praises to You among the nations.

Our mouths were filled with laughter then,and our tongues with shouts of joy.Then they said among the nations,“The Lord has done great things for them.”

He will settle disputes among the nationsand provide arbitration for many peoples.They will turn their swords into plowsand their spears into pruning knives.Nations will not take up the sword against other nations,and they will never again train for war.

on many waters.Tyre’s revenue was the grain from Shihor—the harvest of the Nile.She was the merchant among the nations.

For this is how it will be on earthamong the nations:like a harvested olive tree,like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

Their descendants will be known among the nations,and their posterity among the peoples.All who see them will recognizethat they are a people the Lord has blessed.

I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put, Lud (who are archers), Tubal, Javan, and the islands far away—who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. And they will proclaim My glory among the nations.

Therefore, this is what the Lord says:Ask among the nations,Who has heard things like these?Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.

I have heard a message from the Lord;a messenger has been sent among the nations:Assemble yourselves to come against her.Rise up for war!

Look, I will certainly make you insignificant among the nations,despised among humanity.

How the hammer of the whole earthis cut down and smashed!What a horror Babylon has becomeamong the nations!

At the sound of Babylon’s conquest the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.

Raise a signal flag in the land;blow a ram’s horn among the nations;set apart the nations against her.Summon kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.Appoint a marshal against her;bring up horses like a swarm of locusts.

How Sheshach has been captured,the praise of the whole earth seized.What a horror Babylon has becomeamong the nations!

How she sits alone,the city once crowded with people!She who was great among the nationshas become like a widow.The princess among the provinceshas been put to forced labor.

ג GimelJudah has gone into exilefollowing affliction and harsh slavery;she lives among the nationsbut finds no place to rest.All her pursuers have overtaken herin narrow places.

ט TetZion’s gates have fallen to the ground;He has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates.Her king and her leaders live among the nations,instruction is no more,and even her prophets receiveno vision from the Lord.

ס Samek“Stay away! Unclean!” people shouted at them.“Away, away! Don’t touch us!”So they wandered aimlessly.It was said among the nations,“They can stay here no longer.”

ר ReshThe Lord’s anointed, the breath of our life,was captured in their traps.We had said about him,“We will live under his protection among the nations.”

The Lord said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their bread—ceremonially unclean—among the nations where I will banish them.”

“I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

“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.

Then your survivors will remember Me among the nations where they are taken captive, how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from Me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did, their detestable practices of every kind.

“Therefore say: This is what the Lord God says: Though I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.

They will know that I am Yahweh when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.

But I will spare a few of them from the sword, famine, and plague so they can tell about all their detestable practices among the nations where they go. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor, which I had bestowed on you.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

However, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.

I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you among the countries; I will purge your uncleanness.

I will give it along with Ammon to the people of the east as a possession, so that Ammon will not be remembered among the nations.

All those who know you among the nationsare appalled at you.You have become an object of horrorand will never exist again.”

I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and its cities will be a desolation among ruined cities for 40 years. I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them across the countries.

I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them among the countries.

When I disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them among the countries, they will know that I am Yahweh.”

They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies they had lived in its shade among the nations.

I will trouble the hearts of many peoples,when I bring about your destructionamong the nations,in countries you do not know.

I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered among the countries. I judged them according to their conduct and actions.

Then I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.

“Therefore, say to the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: It is not for your sake that I will act, house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations where you went.

I will honor the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am Yahweh”—the declaration of the Lord God—“when I demonstrate My holiness through you in their sight.

I will also make the fruit of the trees and the produce of the field plentiful, so that you will no longer experience reproach among the nations on account of famine.

“I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment I have executed and the hand I have laid on them.

They will know that I am Yahweh their God when I regather them to their own land after having exiled them among the nations. I will leave none of them behind.

Israel is swallowed up!Now they are among the nationslike discarded pottery.

Even though they hire lovers among the nations,I will now round them up,and they will begin to decrease in numberunder the burden of the king and leaders.

My God will reject thembecause they have not listened to Him;they will become wanderers among the nations.

Let the priests, the Lord’s ministers,weep between the portico and the altar.Let them say:“Have pity on Your people, Lord,and do not make Your inheritance a disgrace,an object of scorn among the nations.Why should it be said among the peoples,‘Where is their God?’”

The Lord answered His people:Look, I am about to send yougrain, new wine, and olive oil.You will be satiated with them,and I will no longer make youa disgrace among the nations.

Proclaim this among the nations:Prepare for holy war;rouse the warriors;let all the men of war advance and attack!

The vision of Obadiah.This is what the Lord God has said about Edom:We have heard a message from the Lord;a messenger has been sent among the nations:“Rise up, and let us go to war against her.”

Look, I will make you insignificantamong the nations;you will be deeply despised.

Then the remnant of Jacobwill be among the nations, among many peoples,like a lion among animals of the forest,like a young lion among flocks of sheep,which tramples and tears as it passes through,and there is no one to rescue them.

As you have been a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Don’t be afraid; let your hands be strong.”

Though I sow them among the nations,they will remember Me in the distant lands;they and their children will live and return.

“For My name will be great among the nations, from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name in every place because My name will be great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Hosts.

“The deceiver is cursed who has an acceptable male in his flock and makes a vow but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Hosts, “and My name will be feared among the nations.