Jeremiah 18:17

I will scatter them before the enemy, as with the east wind; I will show them the back, and not the face, In the day of their calamity.

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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 a desolation, A perpetual hissing; Every one that passeth through it shall be amazed, And shake his head.

18But they say, “Come, let us devise measures against Jeremiah; For the law shall not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet; Come, let us smite him with the tongue, And not give heed to any of his words.”

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Cross References

Job 27:21The east wind carrieth him away, and he perisheth; Yea, it sweepeth him away from his place.

Proverbs 7:25Let not thy heart turn aside to her ways; Go not astray in her paths!

Jeremiah 13:24Therefore will I scatter you like stubble, Which passeth away before the wind of the desert.

Jeremiah 46:21Her mercenaries also in the midst of her are like fatted bullocks; Yet they also turn back; they flee together; they stand not; For the day of their calamity is come upon them, And 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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