¹⁴‘I scattered^w them with a whirlwind^x among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it.^y This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.^z’ ”

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Cross references

wSee Lev 26:33; Dt 4:27; 28:64–67; See Ps 44:11
x Jer 23:19
ySee Isa 33:8
zSee Jer 7:34; See 44:6; See Eze 12:19

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I scattered them with a windstorm over all the nations that had not known them, and the land was left desolate behind them, with no one coming or going. They turned a pleasant land into a desolation.”

NLTNew Living Translation

As with a whirlwind, I scattered them among the distant nations, where they lived as strangers. Their land became so desolate that no one even traveled through it. They turned their pleasant land into a desert.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

‘And I scattered them with a wind among all the nations that they had not known; the land was made desolate behind them— no one crossing through it or returning—and they made the desirable land a desolation.’ ”

KJV 1900King James Version

But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not.

Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned:

For they laid the pleasant land desolate.

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