Catholic Public Domain Version
"Like a burning wind, I will disperse them in the sight the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their perdition.” "
— Jeremiah 18:17, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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.”
“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. ”
“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.”
“I will scatter them before their enemies like dust blowing in front of a burning east wind. I will turn my back on them and not look favorably on them when disaster strikes them.””
“As a burning wind will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.”
“I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.”
“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.”
Do the snows of Lebanon fail to fall on the rocks of the field? Or are the cold waters, which burst forth and flow down, able to be rooted out?
Yet my people have forgotten me, offering useless libations, and stumbling in their ways, in the paths of the world, so that they walk by these on an unmarked route.
And so their land has been given over to desolation and to perpetual hissing. Each one who passes by will be astonished and will shake his head.
Like a burning wind, I will disperse them in the sight the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their perdition.”
And they said: “Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah. For the law will not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor a sermon from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us pay no attention to any of his words.”
Attend to me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my adversaries.
Should evil be rendered for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul! Remember that I have stood in your sight, so as to speak on their behalf for good, and to avert your indignation from them.