Lexicon :: Strong's H2219 - zārâ

“The LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the [Euphrates] River, because they have made their [fn]Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.

“Nothing of his dwells in his tent;

Brimstone (burning sulfur) is scattered over his dwelling [to purify it].

You have made us like sheep to be eaten [as mutton]

And have scattered us [in exile] among the nations.

And that He would cast out their descendants among the nations

And scatter them in the lands [of the earth].

You scrutinize my path and my lying down,

And You are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

Indeed, it is useless to spread the baited net

In the sight of any bird;

The lips of the wise spread knowledge [sifting it as chaff from the grain];

But the hearts of [shortsighted] fools are not so.

A [discerning] king who sits on the throne of judgment

Sifts all evil [like chaff] with his eyes [and cannot be easily fooled].

A wise king sifts out the wicked [from among the good]

And drives the [threshing] wheel over them [to separate the chaff from the grain].

“You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away,

And a high wind will scatter them;

But you will rejoice in the LORD,

You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

In that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the barren heights in the wilderness [comes at My command] against the daughter of My people—not [a wind] to winnow and not to cleanse [from chaff, as when threshing, but]

“I will winnow (sort, separate) them with a winnowing fork

At the gates of the land;

I will deprive them of children, I will destroy My people;

They did not repent and turn from their [evil] ways.

Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations,

And declare it in the isles and coastlands far away,

And say, “He who scattered Israel will gather him

And will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.”

“Their camels will become plunder,

And their herds of cattle a spoil;

And I will scatter to all the [four] winds those who cut the corners of their hair [as evidence of their idolatry],

And I will bring their disaster from every side,” says the LORD.

‘And I will bring upon Elam the four winds

From the four corners of heaven;

And I will scatter them toward all those winds,

And there will be no nation

To which the outcasts of Elam will not go.

And I will send foreigners to Babylon that they may winnow her

And may devastate and empty her land;

For in the day of destruction

They will be against her on every side.

“Yet I will leave some of you alive [a remnant], for you will have some who escaped the sword among the nations when you are scattered throughout the countries.