Jeremiah 18:17
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.In other versions
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.
ASV
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.
BBE
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.
DBY
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.
WEB
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.'
YLT
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.
ENG
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.
WBT
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.”
BSB
In context
15Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
16To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
17I 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.
18Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
19Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.