27The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.


In Context

24 For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

25 After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time-if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God and provoking him to anger,

26 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed.

27 The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

28 There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

29 But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 4:27 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:27And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:27And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:27And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah shall lead you away.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:27And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left a small company among the nations to which Jehovah will lead you.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:27And the LORD shall scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither the LORD shall lead you away.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:27And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:27Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you away.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:27and Jehovah hath scattered you among the peoples, and ye have been left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah leadeth you,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:27And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you.