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.'


In Context

14 Doth snow of Lebanon Cease from the rock of the field? Failed are the cold strange waters that flow?

15 But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways — paths of old, To walk in paths — a way not raised up,

16 To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.

17 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.'

18 And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

19 Give attention, O Jehovah, unto me, And hearken to the voice of those contending 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 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 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.