Jeremiah 18:17 “I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show t…”

Jeremiah 18:17

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

World English Bible

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

American Standard Version

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

Geneva Bible 1599

I will scatter them with an East winde before the enemie: I will shewe them the backe, and not the face in the day of their destruction.

Darby Translation

As with an east wind will I scatter them before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

Young's Literal Translation

As an east wind I scatter them before an enemy, The neck, and not the face, I shew them, In the day of their calamity.'

Bible in Basic English

I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.

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Cross references

“scatter”

Jeremiah 13:24 Job 27:21 Psalm 48:7 Hosea 13:15 Deuteronomy 28:25 Deuteronomy 28:64

Jeremiah 13:24 · BSB

“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.

Job 27:21 · BSB

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Psalm 48:7 · BSB

With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.

Hosea 13:15 · BSB

Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come— a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious…

Deuteronomy 28:25 · BSB

The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:64 · BSB

Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

“shew”

Jeremiah 2:27 Jeremiah 32:33 Deuteronomy 31:17 Judges 10:13 Judges 10:14

Jeremiah 2:27 · BSB

say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’

Jeremiah 32:33 · BSB

They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.

Deuteronomy 31:17 · BSB

On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not the…

Judges 10:13 · BSB

But you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.

Judges 10:14 · BSB

Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”

“the day”

Jeremiah 46:21 Deuteronomy 32:35 Proverbs 7:25 Proverbs 7:26

Jeremiah 46:21 · BSB

Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them— the time of their punishment.

Deuteronomy 32:35 · BSB

Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”

Proverbs 7:25 · BSB

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

Proverbs 7:26 · BSB

For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”

Read Jeremiah 18