Jeremiah 18:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷I 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.

Jeremiah 18:17 —

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Jeremiah 13:24
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
Jeremiah 2:27
Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
Psalms 48:7
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
Hosea 13:15
Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-17)

These verses seem to be the application of the general truths laid down in the foregoing part of the chapter to the nation of the Jews and their present state. I. God was now speaking concerning them to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy; for it is that part of the rule of judgment that their case agrees with (Jer. 18:11): “ Go, and tell them” (saith God), “ Behold I frame evil against you…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. 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).