'Countries' in the Bible

For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.

For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.

Then it will happen on that day that the LordWill again acquire with His hand a second timeThe remnant of His people, who will remain,From Assyria, from [Lower] Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush (Ethiopia), from Elam [in Persia], from Shinar [Babylonia], from Hamath [in Aram],And from the coastlands bordering the [Mediterranean] Sea.

Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?

Who among all the gods of these countries has delivered their land from me? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from me?'"

Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries: they completely destroyed them. Will you be rescued?

Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

And men from strange countries will be building up your walls, and their kings will be your servants: for in my wrath I sent punishment on you, but in my grace I have had mercy on you.

And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.

The Lord has taken an oath by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Truly, I will no longer give your grain to be food for your haters; and men of strange countries will not take the wine for which your work has been done: