Jeremiah 18:17

New International Reader's Version

I will sweep over my people like a wind from the east. I will use the Babylonians to scatter them. I will show them my back and not my face. I will desert them when their day of trouble comes.’ ”

Cross References

Job 27:21

The east wind carries them off, and they are gone. It sweeps them out of their houses.

Psalm 48:7

Lord, you destroyed them like ships of Tarshish that were torn apart by an east wind.

Proverbs 24:16

Even if godly people fall down seven times, they always get up. But those who are evil trip and fall when trouble comes.

Jeremiah 13:24

The Lord says, “I will scatter you like straw that the desert wind blows away.

Jeremiah 2:27

You say to a piece of wood, ‘You are my father.’ You say to a stone, ‘You are my mother.’ You have turned your backs to me. You refuse to look at me. But when you are in trouble, you say, ‘Come and save us!’

Jeremiah 32:33

They turned their backs to me. They would not face me. I taught them again and again. But they would not listen or pay attention when they were corrected.

Jeremiah 46:21

Hired soldiers are in Egypt’s army. They are like fat calves. All of them will turn and run away. They will not hold their positions. The day of trouble is coming on them. The time for them to be punished is near.

Ezekiel 27:26

The sailors who man your oars take you out to the high seas. But the east wind will break you in pieces far out at sea.

Ezekiel 7:22

I will turn my face away from my people. Robbers will make “unclean” the temple I love. They will enter it and make it “unclean.”

Hosea 13:15

Even though they are doing well among the other tribes, trouble will come to them. I will send a hot and dry wind from the east. It will blow in from the desert. Their springs will not have any water. Their wells will dry up. All their treasures will be taken out of their storerooms.

Deuteronomy 28:25

The Lord will help your enemies win the battle over you. You will come at them from one direction. But you will run away from them in every direction. All the kingdoms on earth will be completely shocked when they see you.

Deuteronomy 28:64

Then the Lord will scatter you among all the nations. He’ll spread you around from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship statues of gods made out of wood and stone. You and your people of long ago hadn’t known anything about those gods.

Deuteronomy 31:17

In that day I will become angry with them. I will desert them. I will turn my face away from them. And they will be destroyed. Many horrible troubles and hard times will come on them. On that day they will say, ‘Trouble has come on us. Our God isn’t with us!’

Deuteronomy 32:35

I punish people. I will pay them back. The time will come when their feet will slip. Their day of trouble is near. Very soon they will be destroyed.”