Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Before the enemy;
I will
King 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.
Holman Bible
I will show them
on the day of their calamity.
International Standard Version
"Like the east wind, I'll scatter them before the enemy. I'll show them my back and not my face, on the day of their downfall.'"
A Conservative Version
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.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
‘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].’”
Bible in Basic English
I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.
Darby Translation
As with an east wind will I scatter them before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Julia Smith Translation
As the east wind I will scatter them before the face of the enemy; I will cause them to see the neck and not the face, in the day of their destruction.
King James 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.
Lexham Expanded 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.'"
Modern King James verseion
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
With an East wind will I scatter them, before their enemies. And when their destruction cometh, I will turn my back upon them, but not my face."
NET Bible
I will scatter them before their enemies like dust blowing in front of a burning east wind. I will turn my back on them and not look favorably on them when disaster strikes them."
New Heart English Bible
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."
The Emphasized Bible
Like an east wind, will I scatter them before the enemy, - The back and not the face, will I let them see in the day of their distress.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
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.'
Themes
Days » A time of judgment called a day of » Calamity
Following » The reward for following vanity
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 18:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Deluded Israel
16
An object of perpetual
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And
Before the enemy;
I will
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:27
And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their
And not their face;
But in the
‘Arise and save us.’
Jeremiah 13:24
To the desert
Job 27:21
For it whirls him
Psalm 48:7
You
Jeremiah 32:33
They have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them,
Jeremiah 46:21
Are like
For even they too have turned back and have fled away together;
They did not stand their ground.
For the day of their calamity has come upon them,
The time of their
Hosea 13:15
An
The wind of the Lord coming up from the wilderness;
And his fountain will
And his spring will be dried up;
It will
Deuteronomy 28:25
“
Deuteronomy 28:64
Moreover, the Lord will
Deuteronomy 31:17
Deuteronomy 32:35
And the impending things are hastening upon them.’
Judges 10:13-14
Yet
Proverbs 7:25-26
Do not stray into her paths.