Deuteronomy 28:64

“Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and it will be that whoever finds me will kill me.”

‘But if you do not obey Me and do not do all these commandments,

‘You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.

“And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will remain few in number among the nations where Yahweh drives you.

“And there you will serve gods, the work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

“Indeed, ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?

and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, by walking after other gods which you have not known.

“So it will be, when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you cause these things to return to your heart in all the nations where Yahweh your God has banished you,

“They sacrificed to demons who were not God, To gods whom they have not known, New gods who came lately, Whom your fathers did not dread.

‘I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces; I will cause the memory of them to cease from men,”

Wherever they went, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken and as Yahweh had sworn to them, so that they were severely distressed.

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and took Israel away into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.

Now it happened that when the king heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes.

thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am bringing evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the curses written in the book which they have read in the presence of the king of Judah.

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

Woe to the wicked! It will go badly with him, For what he has dealt out will be done to him.

And Yahweh has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

“I will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.”

“Then I will cause your enemies to pass it over Into a land you do not know, For a fire has been kindled in My anger; It will burn upon you.”

And the captain of the bodyguard had taken Jeremiah and said to him, “Yahweh your God promised this calamity against this place;

Judah has gone into exile because of affliction And because of great slavery; She sits among the nations, But she has found no rest; All her pursuers have overtaken her In the midst of distress.

“Also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them among the lands

“Also I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the lands. According to their ways and their deeds I judged them.

“As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God by turning from our iniquity and acting wisely in Your truth.

“but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is desolated behind them so that no one was passing through and returning, for they made the pleasant land desolate.”