Jeremiah 18:17 Like a wind from the east, I will scatter them before their enemies; I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster."

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Like a wind from the east, I will scatter them before their enemies; I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster."

English Standard Version
Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity.”

New American Standard Bible
Like an east wind I will scatter them Before the enemy; I will show them My back and not My face In the day of their calamity.'"

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face on the day of their calamity.

International Standard Version
Like the east wind, I'll scatter them before the enemy. I'll show them my back and not my face, on the day of their downfall.'"

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As a burning will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.

Darby Bible Translation
As with an east wind will I scatter them before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

Young's Literal Translation
As an east wind I scatter them before an enemy, The neck, and not the face, I shew them, In the day of their calamity.'

Cross References

Job 27:21
The east wind carries him away, and he departs: and as a storm hurles him out of his place.

Psalm 48:7
You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

Proverbs 24:16
For a just man falls seven times, and rises up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

Jeremiah 2:27
Saying to a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

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

Jeremiah 32:33
And they have turned to me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

Jeremiah 46:21
Also her hired men are in the middle of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come on them, and the time of their visitation.

Ezekiel 7:22
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

Ezekiel 27:26
Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the middle of the seas.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

18:11-17 Sinners call it liberty to live at large; whereas for a man to be a slave to his lusts, is the very worst slavery. They forsook God for idols. When men are parched with heat, and meet with cooling, refreshing streams, they use them. In these things men will not leave a certainty for an uncertainty; but Israel left the ancient paths appointed by the Divine law. They walked not in the highway, in which they might travel safely, but in a way in which they must stumble: such was the way of idolatry, and such is the way of iniquity. This made their land desolate, and themselves miserable. Calamities may be borne, if God smile upon us when under them; but if he is displeased, and refuses his help, we are undone. Multitudes forget the Lord and his Christ, and wander from the ancient paths, to walk in ways of their own devising. But what will they do in the day of judgment!

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

17. as with an east wind—literally, "I will scatter them, as an east wind (scatters all before it)": a most violent wind (Job 27:21; Ps 48:7; Isa 27:8). Thirty-two manuscripts read (without as), "with an east wind."

I will show them the back … not … face—just retribution: as "they turned their back unto Me … not their face" (Jer 2:27).