'Countries' in the Bible
This is what the Lord has said: This is Jerusalem: I have put her among the nations, and countries are round her on every side;
And she has gone against my orders by doing evil more than the nations, and against my rules more than the countries round her: for they have given up my orders, and as for my rules, they have not gone in the way of them.
But still, I will keep a small band safe from the sword among the nations, when you are sent wandering among the countries.
For this reason say, This is what the Lord has said: Though I have had them moved far off among the nations, and though I have sent them wandering among the countries, still I have been a safe place for them for a little time in the countries where they have come.
Then say, This is what the Lord has said: I will get you together from the peoples, and make you come out of the countries where you have been sent in flight, and I will give you the land of Israel.
And they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I send them in flight among the nations, driving them out through the countries.
Further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land that I would send them wandering among the nations, driving them out among the countries;
And that which comes into your minds will never take place; when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, servants of wood and stone;
And I will take you out from the peoples and get you together out of the countries where you are wandering, with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with burning wrath let loose:
I will take pleasure in you as in a sweet smell, when I take you out from the peoples and get you together from the countries where you have been sent in flight; and I will make myself holy in you before the eyes of the nations.
You are responsible for the blood drained out by you, and you are unclean through the images which you have made; and you have made your day come near, and the time of your judging has come; for this cause I have made you a name of shame to the nations and a cause of laughing to all countries.
And I will send you in flight among the nations and wandering among the countries; and I will completely take away out of you everything which is unclean.
For this cause my hand has been stretched out against you, and I will give up your goods to be taken by the nations; I will have you cut off from the peoples and will put an end to you among the countries: I will give you up to destruction; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
I will make the land of Egypt a waste among the countries which are made waste, and her towns will be unpeopled among the towns which have been made waste, for forty years: and I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries.
And she will be made waste among the countries which have been made waste, and her towns will be among the towns which are unpeopled.
And I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries.
And I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.
And I will take them out from among the peoples, and get them together from the countries, and will take them into their land; and I will give them food on the mountains of Israel by the water-streams and wherever men are living in the country.
Because you have said, The two nations and the two countries are to be mine, and we will take them for our heritage; though the Lord was there:
And I sent them in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries: I was their judge, rewarding them for their way and their acts.
For I will take you out from among the nations, and get you together from all the countries, and take you into your land.