Jeremiah Chapter 18 verse 17 Holy Bible
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.
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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.
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As 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - As with an east wind. The east was a stormy wind (Psalm 48:7; Job 27:21). I wilt show them the back; as they have done to Jehovah (Jeremiah 2:27; Jeremiah 32:33).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) With an east wind.--MSS. vary, some giving "with" and some "as an east wind." The difference does not much affect the meaning. The east wind blowing from the desert was the wind of storms, tempests, and parching heat (Jonah 4:8; Psalm 48:7; Isaiah 27:8). I will shew them the back, and not the face.--The figure is boldly anthropomorphic. The light of God's countenance is the fulness of joy (Numbers 6:25). To turn away that light was to leave the people to the darkness of their misery. What was thus done by Jehovah was but a righteous retribution on the people who had "turned their back" and "not their face" to Him (Jeremiah 2:27).