Parallel Verses

Amplified


You have made us like sheep to be eaten [as mutton]
And have scattered us [in exile] among the nations.

New American Standard Bible

You give us as sheep to be eaten
And have scattered us among the nations.

King James Version

Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

You handed us over to be slaughtered like sheep and you scattered us among the nations.

A Conservative Version

Thou have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

American Standard Version

Thou hast made us like sheep appointed for food, And hast scattered us among the nations.

Bible in Basic English

You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

Darby Translation

Thou hast given us over like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;

Julia Smith Translation

Thou wilt give us as sheep for food, and thou didst scatter us among the nations.

King James 2000

You have given us like sheep appointed for food; and have scattered us among the nations.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You have given us as sheep [for] food, and among the nations you have scattered us.

Modern King James verseion

You have given us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep, and scatterest us among the Heathen.

NET Bible

You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.

New Heart English Bible

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

The Emphasized Bible

Thou dost give us up like sheep to be devoured, And, amongst the nations, hast thou scattered us.

Webster

Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for food; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

World English Bible

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Israel's Complaint

10
You make us turn back from the enemy,
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.
11 
You have made us like sheep to be eaten [as mutton]
And have scattered us [in exile] among the nations.
12
You sell Your people cheaply,
And have not increased Your wealth by their sale.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:27

The Lord will scatter and disperse you among the peoples (pagan nations), and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you.

Deuteronomy 28:64

And the Lord will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you will [be forced to] serve other gods, [lifeless gods of] wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

Romans 8:36

Just as it is written and forever remains written,

For Your sake we are put to death all day long;
We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.”

2 Kings 17:6

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried [the people of] Israel into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and in Habor, by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

Psalm 14:4


Have all the workers of wickedness and injustice no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call upon the Lord?

Psalm 60:1

O God, You have rejected us and cast us off. You have broken [down our defenses and scattered] us;
You have been angry; O restore us and turn again to us.

Psalm 106:27


And that He would cast out their descendants among the nations
And scatter them in the lands [of the earth].

Isaiah 11:11-12


Then it will happen on that day that the Lord
Will again acquire with His hand a second time
The remnant of His people, who will remain,
From Assyria, from [Lower] Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush (Ethiopia), from Elam [in Persia], from Shinar [Babylonia], from Hamath [in Aram],
And from the coastlands bordering the [Mediterranean] Sea.

Jeremiah 12:3


But You, O Lord, know me [and understand my devotion to You];
You see me;
And You examine the attitude of my heart toward You.
Drag out the faithless like sheep for the slaughter [O Lord]
And set them apart for the day of slaughter.

Jeremiah 32:37

Behold, I will gather them out of all countries to which I have driven them in My anger, in My wrath and in great indignation; and I will bring them back to this place and make them live in safety.

Ezekiel 34:12

As a shepherd cares for his sheep on the day that he is among his scattered flock, so I will care for My sheep; and I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.

Luke 21:24

And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled (completed).

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