63. And these were to be forcibly expelled from the land of Canaan, which they were just about to conquer. And they actually were so expelled by the Romans, partly after this war, and still more so after their rebellion in A.D. 134, when for many centuries scarcely any Jews were allowed to live in their own country, an event probably unique in history. 64. But instead of being taken away to a single nation, as at the Babylonian captivity, they were now to be scattered over the whole world, _among all peoples, from one end of the earth, even unto the other end of the earth_. And how marvellously this has been fulfilled is obvious to everyone. No mention is made of a _king_ here, as in ver. 36; so while that suits the Babylonian captivity, this suits the later dispersion, though in each case there is a reference to their serving other gods, for which it must be admitted there is very little evidence. 65. Then we have the further _sufferings_ that the Jews were to undergo in their dispersion. Among these nations they were to find _no ease, nor rest for the sole of their foot_, but were to have _a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul_. And here, again, the event is as strange as the prophecy. Nowhere else shall we find a parallel to it. For centuries the Jews were not only persecuted, but were often expelled from one country to another, so that they found _no rest_ anywhere, but were driven from city to city, and from kingdom to kingdom. 66. And their life was to hang in doubt night and day; 67. And they were to be in a continual state of fear and alarm; all of which was completely fulfilled. 68. Lastly, we read, that some of the Jews, instead of being dispersed, were to be _brought to Egypt again with ships_, and to be in bondage there. And this also came true, after the siege, when many of the Jews were sold for slaves, and sent to the mines in Egypt, probably in slave ships. Everyone must admit that the agreement all through is very remarkable; in fact, the prophecies about the dispersion of the Jews--and we have only examined a single instance in detail--are even more striking than those about the desolation of Assyria and Babylonia, or the degradation of Egypt. And to fully realise their importance, let us suppose that anyone _now_ were to foretell the future of three great nations, saying that one was to be utterly destroyed, and the land desolated; another to sink to be a base kingdom; and the third to be conquered and its inhabitants forcibly expelled, and scattered over the whole world. What chance would there be of any one of the prophecies (leave alone all three) coming true, and _remaining true for two thousand years_? Yet this would be but a similar case.