NET Bible
"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.”"
— Jeremiah 18:17, NET Bible
“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.”
“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.”
Does the snow ever completely vanish from the rocky slopes of Lebanon? Do the cool waters from those distant mountains ever cease to flow?
Yet my people have forgotten me and offered sacrifices to worthless idols! This makes them stumble along in the way they live and leave the old reliable path of their fathers. They have left them to walk in bypaths, in roads that are not smooth and level.
So their land will become an object of horror. People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision.
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.”
Jeremiah Petitions the Lord to Punish Those Who Attack Him Then some people said,“Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God’s word. Come on! Let’s bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says.”
Then I said,“LORD, pay attention to me. Listen to what my enemies are saying.
Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they are virtually digging a pit to kill me. Just remember how I stood before you pleading on their behalf to keep you from venting your anger on them.