Jeremiah 18:17 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁷ Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity [says the Lord].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Like a strong east wind, I will scatter them before their enemy. When disaster strikes them, I will show them my back, not my face.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Like a burning wind, I will disperse them in the sight the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their perdition."

Jeremiah 18:17 Cross References

Job 27:21

The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Psalm 48:7

By the east wind thou didst shatter the ships of Tarshish.

Proverbs 24:16

for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Jeremiah 13:24

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

Jeremiah 2:27

who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, ‘Arise and save us!’

Jeremiah 32:33

They have turned to me their back and not their face; and though I have taught them persistently they have not listened to receive instruction.

Jeremiah 46:21

Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like fatted calves; yea, they have turned and fled together, they did not stand; for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.

Ezekiel 27:26

Your rowers have brought you out into the high seas. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.

Ezekiel 7:22

I will turn my face from them, that they may profane my precious place; robbers shall enter and profane it,

Hosea 13:15

Though he may flourish as the reed plant, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, rising from the wilderness; and his fountain shall dry up, his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.

Deuteronomy 28:25

“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:64

And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

Deuteronomy 31:17

Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured; and many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’

Deuteronomy 32:35

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.