Bible verse
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.”
Jeremiah 18:17 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 18.
13 Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.
14 Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?
15 Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
16 They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
17 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.”
18 Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
19 Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!
20 Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
21 Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
KJV
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.
ASV
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.
ERV
I 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.
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