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.


In Context

14 Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

15 For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;

16 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

17 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.

18 Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; 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 not give heed to any of his words.

19 Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:17As 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.

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 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.