80 Or more simply, “I will bring enemies against Elam from every direction. / And I will scatter the people of Elam to the four winds. // There won’t be any nation / where the refugees of Elam will not go.” Or more literally, “I will bring the four winds against Elam / from the four quarters of heaven. / I will scatter.…” However, the winds are not to be understood literally here. God isn’t going to “blow the Elamites” out of Elam with natural forces. The winds must figuratively represent enemy forces that God will use to drive them out. Translating literally would be misleading at this point.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven. And I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I will bring against Elam the four winds

from the four quarters of heaven;

I will scatter them to the four winds,

and there will not be a nation

where Elam’s exiles do not go.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I will bring the four winds against Elam

from the four corners of the heavens,

and I will scatter them to all these winds.

There will not be a nation

to which Elam’s banished ones will not go.

NLTNew Living Translation

I will bring enemies from all directions,

and I will scatter the people of Elam to the four winds.

They will be exiled to countries around the world.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And I will bring to Elam four winds,

from the four corners of heaven,

and I will scatter them to all these winds,

and there will not be a nation

where the scattered people of Elam will not go.

KJV 1900King James Version

And upon Elam will I bring the four winds

From the four quarters of heaven,

And will scatter them toward all those winds;

And there shall be no nation

Whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

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