Jeremiah 18:17

Like an east wind will I scatter them before the enemy; with the back, and not the face, will I regard them on the day of their calamity.

Leeser Tanakh

In The 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.

In Context

16To make their land desolate, a perpetual derision: every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

18And they said, Come, and let us contrive devices against Jeremiah; for the law will not be lost from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not listen to any of his words.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:64And the Lord will scatter thee among all the nations, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there wilt thou serve strange gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 32:35Mine are vengeance and recompense, at the time that their foot shall slip; for nigh draweth the day of their calamity, and the future speedeth along for them.

Job 27:21The east wind will lift him up, and he must be gone; and it hurleth him like a storm out of his place.

Proverbs 7:25Let not thy heart turn aside to her ways, do not go astray on her paths.

Jeremiah 13:24Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away before the wind of the wilderness.

Jeremiah 46:21Also her hired troops in the midst of her are like fatted calves; for they also are turned round, are fled away together, they do not stand; because the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their punishment.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 18:12-18

People of God Accused and Threatened; Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 600.) 11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. 12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Ask ye… Read the whole commentary →

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