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Jeremiah 18:17

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17‘Like an aeast wind I will bscatter them

Before the enemy;

I will 1show them cMy back and not My face

dIn the day of their disaster.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 1As in ancient versions; M.T. look them in the back and not in the face

Cross references

  1. aPs 48:7
  2. bJob 27:21; Jer 13:24
  3. cJer 2:27; 32:33
  4. dJer 46:21

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Like the east wind I will scatter them

before the enemy.

I will show them my back, not my face,

in the day of their calamity.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Like a wind from the east,

I will scatter them before their enemies;

I will show them my back and not my face

in the day of their disaster.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind.

I will show them my back and not my face

on the day of their calamity.

NLTNew Living Translation

I will scatter my people before their enemies

as the east wind scatters dust.

And in all their trouble I will turn my back on them

and refuse to notice their distress.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Like the wind from the east

I will scatter them before the enemy.

I will show them my back and not my face

in the day of their disaster.’ ”

KJV 1900King James Version

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.