Jeremiah 18:17

Jeremiah 18:17 in other versions

• King James Version (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.
• New International Version (NIV)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.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)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."
• New King James Version (NKJV)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.”

Context of Jeremiah 18:17

15Yet My people have forgotten Me; They burn incense to worthless gods, They have stumbled from their ways From the ancient roads, To walk in pathways, Not on a highway, 16Making their land a desolation and a horror, A thing to be hissed at perpetually; Everyone who passes by will be astounded And shake his head [in scorn]. I will scatter them like an east wind Before the enemy; I will show them My back and not My face In the day of their disaster [says the Lord].’ ” 18Then [my enemies] said, “Come and let us work out schemes against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest [as Jeremiah predicts], nor the counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with our tongue [by making charges against him before the king], and let us ignore anything he says.” 19Pay attention to me, O Lord [and intercede]; Listen to what my adversaries are saying [and are plotting against me]—

Jeremiah 18:17 word by word

כְּרֽוּחַ־קָדִ֥ים אֲפִיצֵ֖ם לִפְנֵ֣י אוֹיֵ֑ב עֹ֧רֶף וְלֹֽא־פָנִ֛ים אֶרְאֵ֖ם בְּי֥וֹם אֵידָֽם׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• I will scatterפּוּץpûts · to scatterH6327
• them as with an eastקָדִיםqâdîym qâdim · eastH6921
• windרוּחַrûach · spirit: breathH7307
• beforeפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440
• the enemyאֹיֵב'ôyêb 'ôyêb · enemyH341
• I will shewרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• them the backעֹ֫רֶף‛ôreph · neckH6203
• and not the faceפָּנֶהpânîym · faceH6440
• in the dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• of their calamityאֵיד'êyd · calamityH343

Cross-references for Jeremiah 18:17

• Jeremiah 13:24Therefore I will scatter you like drifting straw [Driven away] by the desert wind.
• Deuteronomy 28:25“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out against them one way, but flee before them seven ways, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth [when they see your destruction].
• Job 27:21The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone; It sweeps him out of his place.
• Psalms 48:7With the east wind You shattered the ships of Tarshish.
• Hosea 13:15For though he flourishes among the reeds (his fellow tribes), An east wind (Assyria) will come, The breath of the Lord rising from the desert; And Ephraim’s spring will become dry And his fountain will be dried up. Assyria will plunder his treasury of every precious object.
• Jeremiah 2:27Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me, And not their faces; But in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise [O Lord] and save us.’
• Jeremiah 32:33They have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them repeatedly, yet they would not listen and receive instruction.
• Deuteronomy 31:17Then My anger will be kindled and burn against them in that day, and I will abandon (turn away from) them and hide My face from them. They will be devoured, and many evils and troubles will come on them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Is it not because our God is not among us that these evils have come on us?’
• Judges 10:13Yet you have abandoned (rejected) Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer rescue you.
• Jeremiah 46:21Also her mercenaries in her army Are like fattened calves, For they too have turned back and have fled together; They did not stand [their ground], Because the day of their disaster has come upon them, The time of their punishment.
• Proverbs 7:25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, Do not stray into her [evil, immoral] paths.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 18:17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17I will scatter them as with an east wind - It is the property of this wind, almost every where, to parch up, blast, and destroy grain and trees, and even cattle and men suffer from it. Hence the old metrical proverb: - "When the wind blows from the east, 'Tis good for neither man nor beast."Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17I will shew them the back - The hiding of God‘s face is the sure sign of His displeasure Isaiah 1:15; Isaiah 59:2.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-17Verses 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 travel safely, but in a way in…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16-17The Lord declared judgment on Judah and Jerusalem. They have made their land a desolation...I will scatter them: Between 605 and 586 BC, Judah and Jerusalem gradually lost their residents. like the east wind: In the summer, a strong hot wind from the east can blow sand and dust from the desert into Judah. I will show them My back: The people would no longer have a covenant relationship with the Lord.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. as with an east wind--literally, "I will scatter them, as an east wind (scatters all before it)": a most violent wind (Job 27:21; Psa 48:7; Is 27:8). Thirty-two manuscripts read (without as), "with an east wind." I will show them the back ... not ... face--just retribution: as "they turned their back unto Me ... not their face" (Jr 2:27).Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 18:17

• Church
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• East wind
• Smite
• Wag
• Anathoth
• Face
• Providence

Commentaries on Jeremiah 18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings