Jeremiah 18:17 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁷ “I shall scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I shall show them the back and not the 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 takes him away, and he is gone; for it sweeps him from his place.

Psalm 48:7

With an east wind You break the ships of Tarshish.

Proverbs 24:16

For seven times a righteous man falls and rises, But the wrong one stumbles into evil.

Jeremiah 13:24

“So I shall scatter them like stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.

Jeremiah 2:27

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

Jeremiah 32:33

“And they have turned their back to Me, and not their face – though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, they did not listen to receive instruction.

Jeremiah 46:21

“Her hired ones too, in her midst, are like fattened calves, for they too shall turn, they shall flee away together. They shall not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.

Ezekiel 27:26

“Your seamen brought you into many waters, but the east wind broke you in the heart of the seas.

Ezekiel 7:22

‘And I shall turn My face from them. And they shall profane My secret place, for destroyers shall enter it and profane it.

Hosea 13:15

“Though he bears fruit among his brothers, an east wind comes, a wind from יהוה  comes up from the wilderness, and it dries up his fountain, and his spring becomes dry – it plunders a treasure of all desirable objects.

Deuteronomy 28:25

“יהוה  causes you to be defeated before your enemies – you go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall become a horror to all the reigns of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:64

“And יהוה  shall scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other mighty ones, which neither you nor your fathers have known, wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 31:17

“Then My displeasure shall burn against them in that day, and I shall forsake them and hide My face from them, and they shall be consumed. And many evils and distresses shall come upon them, and it shall be said in that day, ‘Is it not because our Elohim is not in our midst that these evils have come upon us?’

Deuteronomy 32:35

‘Vengeance is Mine, and repayment, At the time their foot slips; For near is the day of their calamity, And the matters prepared are hastening to them.’