Zechariah 2:6

“You there! ¹  Flee from the northland!” says the Lord, “for like the four winds of heaven ²  I have scattered you,” says the Lord.

Ge 19:17; De 28:64; Ru 4:1; Isa 48:20; Isa 52:11,12; Isa 55:1; Jer 1:14; Jer 3:18; Jer 15:4; Jer 31:8; Jer 31:10; Jer 50:8; Jer 51:6; Jer 51:45,50; Eze 5:12; Eze 11:16; Eze 12:14,15; Eze 17:21; Am 9:9; Zec 2:7; 2Co 6:16,17; Re 18:4

¹ sn These are the scattered Jews of eschatological times (as the expression four winds of heaven makes clear) and not those of Zechariah’s time who have, for the most part, already returned by 520 b.c. This theme continues and is reinforced in vv. 10-13.

² tn Or “of the sky.” The same Hebrew term, שָׁמַיִם (shamayim), may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.