Jeremiah 18:17

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 13:24 : 24 Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.
  • Jer 2:27 : 27 who tell wood, 'You are my father;' and a stone, 'You have brought me out:' for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, 'Arise, and save us.'
  • Hos 13:15 : 15 Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
  • Job 27:21 : 21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
  • Ps 48:7 : 7 With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.
  • Jer 32:33 : 33 They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.
  • Jer 46:21 : 21 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.
  • Prov 7:25-26 : 25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths, 26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
  • Deut 28:25 : 25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
  • Deut 28:64 : 64 Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
  • Deut 31:17 : 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 come on them; so that they will say in that day, 'Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?'
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things that are to come on them shall make haste."
  • Judg 10:13-14 : 13 Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods: therefore I will save you no more. 14 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!"

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 13:24
    79%

    24 Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.

  • Ezek 12:14-15
    2 verses
    78%

    14 I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.

    15 They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.

  • Jer 18:16
    78%

    16 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  • Jer 9:16
    78%

    16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.

  • Zech 7:14
    77%

    14 "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."

  • Lev 26:33
    76%

    33 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

  • Jer 24:9
    76%

    9 I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.

  • Jer 29:18
    75%

    18 I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them;

  • Jer 15:7
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    7 I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved [them] of children, I have destroyed my people; they didn't return from their ways.

  • Jer 49:32
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    32 Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their livestock a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh.

  • Deut 31:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    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 come on them; so that they will say in that day, 'Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?'

    18 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.

  • Jer 18:18
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    18 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.

  • Ezek 36:19
    74%

    19 and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

  • Amos 9:4
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    4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.

  • Jer 44:11
    74%

    11 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.

  • Jer 51:2
    74%

    2 I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her around.

  • Ezek 17:21
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    21 All his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward every wind: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

  • Job 21:18
    74%

    18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

  • Deut 32:26
    74%

    26 I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;

  • Lev 26:17
    74%

    17 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

  • Jer 49:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    36 On Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of the sky, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation where the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

    37 I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life; and I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them;

  • Ps 21:12
    73%

    12 For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

  • Isa 13:14
    73%

    14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.

  • Jer 10:18
    73%

    18 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel [it].

  • 2 Kgs 21:14
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    14 I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies. They will become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

  • Jer 17:18
    73%

    18 Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

  • Ezek 15:7
    73%

    7 I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.

  • Isa 17:13
    73%

    13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

  • Ps 18:42
    72%

    42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

  • Ezek 20:23
    72%

    23 Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

  • Jer 19:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7 I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

    8 I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

  • Ezek 5:14
    72%

    14 Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.

  • Hos 13:3
    72%

    3 Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.

  • Ezek 22:15
    72%

    15 I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you.

  • Jer 4:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

    12 a full wind from these shall come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them."

  • Amos 1:14
    72%

    14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a storm in the day of the whirlwind;

  • Jer 15:14
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    14 I will make [them] to pass with your enemies into a land which you don't know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you.

  • Jer 5:13
    71%

    13 The prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them."

  • Ezek 30:23
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    23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

  • Jer 20:4
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    4 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall kill them with the sword.

  • Hab 1:9
    71%

    9 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

  • Ps 35:5
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    5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving them on.

  • Jer 32:33
    71%

    33 They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

  • Jer 22:22
    71%

    22 The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

  • Isa 41:16
    71%

    16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.