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Jeremiah 18:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

When your enemies attack, I will scatter you like dust blown by an eastern wind. Then, on that day of disaster, I will turn my back on you.

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Then a scorching wind will sweep them away

or like seagoing ships wrecked by eastern winds.

Even if good people fall seven times, they will get back up. But when trouble strikes the wicked, that's the end of them.

I will scatter you, just as the desert wind blows husks from grain tossed in the air.

worship stone idols and sacred poles as if they had created you and had given you life. You have rejected me, but when you're in trouble, you cry to me for help.

The foreign soldiers you hired will turn and run. But they are doomed, like well-fed calves being led to the butcher.

and sailing across the sea, but you were wrecked by strong eastern winds.

They will break into my temple and leave it unfit as a place to worship me, but I will look away and let it happen.

No matter how much you prosper more than the other tribes, I, the LORD, will wipe you out, just as a scorching desert wind dries up streams of water. I will take away your precious treasures.

The LORD will let you be defeated by your enemies, and you will scatter in all directions. You will be a horrible sight for the other nations to see,

Those of you who survive will be scattered to every nation on earth, and you will have to worship stone and wood idols that never helped you or your ancestors.

and I will be so furious that I will abandon them and ignore their prayers. I will send disasters and suffering that will nearly wipe them out. Finally, they will realize that the disasters happened because I abandoned them.

Soon our enemies will get what they deserve— suddenly they will slip, and total disaster will quickly follow.




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