Deu 28:64-65, 32:26, Amo 8:2, 9:9, Joh 7:35, Jam 1:1 | ESV | STEP | And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples , from one end of the earth to the other , and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone , which neither you nor your fathers have known .

Deuteronomy 28:64-65

64 “And the Lord ^awill scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and ^bthere you shall serve other gods ^cof wood and stone, ^dwhich neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 And ^eamong these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but ^fthe Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and ^ga languishing soul.

Deuteronomy 32:26

26 ^hI would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;
ⁱI will wipe them from human memory,”

Amos 8:2

2 And he said, ^j“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, ^k“A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,

^l“The end ^{▼▼The Hebrew words for end and summer fruit sound alike} has come upon my people Israel;
I will never again pass by them.

Amos 9:9

9 “For behold, I will command,
ⁿand shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
but no pebble shall fall to the earth.

John 7:35

35 The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? ^oDoes he intend to go to ^pthe Dispersion among ^qthe Greeks and teach the Greeks?

James 1:1

Greeting

1 ^rJames, a servant ^{▼▼Or slave (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)} of God and ^tof the Lord Jesus Christ,

To ^uthe twelve tribes in ^vthe Dispersion:

Greetings.