17As 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.


In Context

14 Shall now the snow of Libanus fail from the rock of the field? or can the cold waters that gush out and run down, be taken away?

15 Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and stumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not trodden:

16 That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag his head.

17 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.

18 And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremias: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.

19 Give heed to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.

Jeremiah 18:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:17I 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:17Like 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."

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:17I 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:17As 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will look upon their back, and not their face, in the day of their calamity.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:17I 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:17I 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:17As an east wind I scatter them before an enemy, The neck, and not the face, I shew them, In the day of their calamity.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:17I 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.