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.
Jeremiah 18:17 in other translations
| BSB | 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.” |
|---|---|
| WEB | 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 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. |
| YLT | 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.' |
| DARBY | 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. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Jeremiah 18:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 18:11-17
Sinners call it liberty to live at large; whereas for a man to be a slave to his lusts, is the very worst slavery. They forsook God for idols. When men are parched with heat, and meet with cooling, refreshing streams, they use them. In these things men will not leave a certainty for an uncertainty; but Israel left the ancient paths appointed by the Divine law. They walked not in the highway, in which they might…
Jeremiah 18:17 in the original Hebrew
Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.
Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).
Cross references for Jeremiah 18:17
- Jeremiah 13:24
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
- Jeremiah 2:27
Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
- Hosea 13:15
Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
- Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
- Psalms 48:7
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
- Jeremiah 46:21
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
- Jeremiah 32:33
And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
- Judges 10:13-14
Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more. Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
- Proverbs 7:25-26
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
- Deuteronomy 28:64
And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
- Deuteronomy 32:35
To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
- Deuteronomy 31:17
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
Ranked by reader votes · OpenBible.info cross references (CC BY).
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Jeremiah 18:16
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 18:18
Then 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.
Jeremiah 18:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Como viento solano los esparciré delante del enemigo; mostraréles las espaldas, y no el rostro, en el día de su perdición. |
|---|---|
| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Comme par le vent d’orient, je les disperserai devant l’ennemi; je leur tournerai le dos et non la face, au jour de leur calamité. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wie der Ostwind werde ich sie vor dem Feinde zerstreuen; mit dem Rücken und nicht mit dem Angesicht werde ich sie ansehen an dem Tage ihres Verderbens |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sicut ventus urens dispergam eos coram inimico: dorsum, et non faciem, ostendam eis in die perditionis eorum. |