Jeremiah 18:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.””
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“I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 18:17 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:25The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 28:64Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
- Deuteronomy 31:17On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
- Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
- Judges 10:13But you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.
- Job 27:21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
- Psalms 48:7With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
- Proverbs 7:25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.
- Jeremiah 2:27say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ‘Rise up and save us!’
- Jeremiah 13:24“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
- Jeremiah 32:33They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.
- Jeremiah 46:21Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them— the time of their punishment.
- Hosea 13:15Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come— a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
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