“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Jeremiah 18 contains 23 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.