Jeremiah 18:17

Translations

Modern

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.”

Traditional

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.

Literal

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; and I will show them the back and not the face, in the day of their calamity!”

Latin

Sicut ventus urens dispergam eos coram inimico: dorsum, et non faciem, ostendam eis in die perditionis eorum.

Original

Hebrew

English

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.”

Notes

Jeremiah 18:16–17

The Lord declared judgment on Judah and Jerusalem.
They have made their land a desolation...I will scatter them: Between 605 and 586 BC, Judah and Jerusalem gradually lost their residents.
like the east wind: In the summer, a strong hot wind from the east can blow sand and dust from the desert into Judah.
I will show them My back: The people would no longer have a covenant relationship with the Lord.

Jeremiah 18:13–17

The Lord said he would scatter his people because they left him.

Theme notes and profiles

Apostasy and Renewal The Lord of Nations

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 13:24
“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
Jeremiah 2:27
…say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’
Hosea 13:15
Although 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.
Psalm 48:7
With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.
Job 27:21
The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
Jeremiah 32:33
They 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 46:21
Even 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.
Deuteronomy 31:17
On 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?’
Judges 10:13–14
But you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.
Proverbs 7:25–26
Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.
Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance 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.”
Deuteronomy 28:64
Then 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.

Glossary

Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (Old Testament) Book of Jeremiah East Wind Jeremiah (Person)

Topics

Church: Backslidden Day: A Time of Judgment Called a Day of Calamity God: Sovereign Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Wicked (People): Prayer of

Jeremiah 18:17

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