The Chosen People:
Condition of The Jews in Diaspora
Lv 26: 33,36-39
33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after
you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
36 “‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their
hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put
them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will
fall when no one pursues.
37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one
pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.
38 You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will eat you
up.
39 Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’
lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with
them.
Dt 28:36,37,64-68
36 Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, to a nation
that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve
other gods, wood and stone.
37 You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all
the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away.
64 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even
to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which
you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
65 Among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for
the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart,
and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;
66 and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear
night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
67 In the morning you shall say, Would it were even! and at even you shall say,
Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you shall fear,
and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
68 Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said
to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves
to your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy
you.
Jr 24:9
I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of
the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a
curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
Jr 34:17
Therefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty,
every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to
you a liberty, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine;
and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the
earth.
Ezk 36:20-23
20 When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name;
in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone forth out
of his land.
21 But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned
among the nations, where they went.
22 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don’t do this
for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned
among the nations, where you went.
23 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations,
which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know
that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before
their eyes.
Ezk 39:23,24
23 The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their
iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so
I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the
sword.
24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to
them; and I hid my face from them.
Rm 11:25
For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you
won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened
to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,