Jeremiah 18:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 13:24 : 24 And I scatter them as stubble, Passing away, by a wind of the wilderness.
  • Jer 2:27 : 27 Saying to wood, `My father `art' thou!' And to a stone, `Thou hast brought me forth,' For they turned unto me the back and not the face, And in the time of their vexation, They say, `Arise Thou, and save us.'
  • Hos 13:15 : 15 Though he among brethren produceth fruit, Come in doth an east wind, a wind of Jehovah, From a wilderness it is coming up, And it drieth up his fountain, And become dry doth his spring, It -- it spoileth a treasure -- every desirable vessel.
  • Job 27:21 : 21 Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,
  • Ps 48:7 : 7 By an east wind Thou shiverest ships of Tarshish.
  • Jer 32:33 : 33 And they turn unto Me the neck, and not the face, and teaching them, rising early and teaching, and they are not hearkening to accept instruction.
  • Jer 46:21 : 21 Even her hired ones in her midst `are' as calves of the stall, For even they have turned, They have fled together, they have not stood, For the day of their calamity hath come on them, The time of their inspection.
  • Prov 7:25-26 : 25 Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths, 26 For many `are' the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty `are' all her slain ones.
  • Deut 28:25 : 25 `Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies; in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth;
  • Deut 28:64 : 64 and Jehovah hath scattered thee among all the peoples, from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth; and thou hast served there other gods which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers -- wood and stone.
  • Deut 31:17 : 17 and Mine anger hath burned against it in that day, and I have forsaken them, and hidden My face from them, and it hath been for consumption, and many evils and distresses have found it, and it hath said in that day, Is it not because that my God is not in my midst -- these evils have found me?
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 Mine `are' vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.
  • Judg 10:13-14 : 13 and ye -- ye have forsaken Me, and serve other gods, therefore I add not to save you. 14 Go and cry unto the gods on which ye have fixed; they -- they save you in the time of your adversity.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 24And I scatter them as stubble, Passing away, by a wind of the wilderness.

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    14`And all who are round about him to help him, and all his bands, I do scatter to every wind, and a sword I draw out after them.

    15And they have known that I `am' Jehovah, in My scattering them among nations, and I have spread them through lands;

  • 16To make their land become a desolation, A hissing age-during, Every passer by it is astonished, And bemoaneth with his head.

  • 16And I have scattered them among nations Which they knew not, they and their fathers, And have sent after them the sword, Till I have consumed them.

  • 14And I toss them on all the nations, That they have not known, The land hath been desolate behind them, Of any passing by and turning back, And they set a desirable land for a desolation!

  • 33And you I scatter among nations, and have drawn out after you a sword, and your land hath been a desolation, and your cities are a waste.

  • 9And I have given them for a trembling, For evil -- to all kingdoms of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a reviling, In all the places whither I drive them.

  • 18And I have pursued after them with sword, with famine, and with pestilence, and have given them for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth, for a curse and for an astonishment, and for a hissing, and for a reproach among all the nations whither I have driven them,

  • 7And I scatter them with a fan, in the gates the land, I bereaved, I have destroyed My people, From their ways they turned not back.

  • 32And their camels have been for a prey, And the multitude of their cattle for a spoil, And I have scattered them to every wind, Who cut off the corner `of the beard', And from all its passages I bring in their calamity, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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    17and Mine anger hath burned against it in that day, and I have forsaken them, and hidden My face from them, and it hath been for consumption, and many evils and distresses have found it, and it hath said in that day, Is it not because that my God is not in my midst -- these evils have found me?

    18and I certainly hide My face in that day for all the evil which it hath done, for it hath turned unto other gods.

  • 18And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

  • 19And I scatter them among nations, And they are spread through lands, According to their way, and according to their doings, I have judged them.

  • 4And if they go into captivity before their enemies, From thence I command the sword, And it hath slain them, And I have set Mine eye on them for evil, And not for good.

  • 11`Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am setting my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah,

  • 2And I have sent to Babylon fanners, And they have fanned it, and they empty its land, For they have been against it, Round about -- in the day of evil.

  • 21And all his fugitives, with all his bands, By sword do fall, and those remaining, To every wind they are spread out, And ye have known that I, Jehovah, have spoken.

  • 18They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,

  • 26I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;

  • 17and I have set My face against you, and ye have been smitten before your enemies; and those hating you have ruled over you, and ye have fled, and there is none pursuing you.

  • Jer 49:36-37
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    36And I have brought in to Elam four winds, From the four ends of the heavens, And have scattered them to all these winds, And there is no nation whither outcasts of Elam come not in.

    37And I have affrighted Elam before their enemies, And before those seeking their life, And I have brought in against them evil, The heat of Mine anger, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have sent after them the sword, Till I have consumed them;

  • 12For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.

  • 14And it hath been, as a roe driven away, And as a flock that hath no gatherer, Each unto his people -- they turn, And each unto his land -- they flee.

  • 18For thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, And have been an adversary to them, So that they are found out.

  • 14`And I have left the remnant of Mine inheritance, and given them into the hand of their enemies, and they have been for a prey and for a spoil to all their enemies,

  • 18Let my pursuers be ashamed, and let not me be ashamed -- me! Let them be affrighted, and let not me be affrighted -- me! Bring in on them a day of evil, And a second time `with' destruction destroy them.

  • 7And I have set My face against them, From the fire they have gone forth, And the fire doth consume them, And ye have known that I `am' Jehovah, In My setting My face against them.

  • 13Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.

  • 42And I beat them as dust before wind, As mire of the streets I empty them out.

  • 23I also, I have lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, To scatter them among nations, And to spread them through lands.

  • Jer 19:7-8
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    72%

    7And I have made void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and have caused them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those seeking their life, and I have given their carcase for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth,

    8and I have made this city for a desolation, and for a hissing, every passer by it is astonished, and doth hiss for all its plagues.

  • 14And I give thee for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that `are' round about thee, Before the eyes of every passer by.

  • 3Therefore they are as a cloud of the morning, And as dew, rising early, going away, As chaff tossed about out of a floor, And as smoke out of a window.

  • 15And I have scattered thee among nations, And have spread thee out among lands, And consumed thy uncleanness out of thee.

  • Jer 4:11-12
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    72%

    11At that time it is said of this people, And of Jerusalem: `A dry wind of high places in the wilderness,' The way of the daughter of My people, (Not for winnowing, nor for cleansing,)

    12A full wind from these doth come for Me, Now, also, I speak judgments with them.

  • 14And I have kindled a fire against the wall of Rabbah, And it hath consumed her palaces, With a shout in a day of battle, With a whirlwind in a day of hurricane,

  • 14And I have caused thine enemies To pass over into the land -- Thou hast not known, For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, Against you it doth burn.

  • 13And the prophets become wind, And the word is not in them,' -- thus it is done by them.

  • 23And scattered the Egyptians among nations, And I have spread them through lands,

  • 4For thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am making thee for a fear to thyself, And to all loving thee, And they have fallen by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes are beholding, And all Judah I give into the hand of the king of Babylon, And he hath removed them to Babylon, And he hath smitten them with the sword.

  • 9Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.

  • 5They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.

  • 33And they turn unto Me the neck, and not the face, and teaching them, rising early and teaching, and they are not hearkening to accept instruction.

  • 22All thy friends consume doth wind, And thy lovers into captivity do go, Surely then thou art ashamed, And hast blushed for all thy wickedness.

  • 16Thou winnowest them, and a wind lifteth them up, And a whirlwind scattereth them, And thou -- thou rejoicest in Jehovah, In the Holy One of Israel dost boast thyself.