World English Bible
Jeremiah 18:17
“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.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 18
For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;
to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
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.
Then they said, 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 strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Give heed to me, Yahweh, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.
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