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."
Jeremiah 18:17
Surrounding context
18:16 To make their land desolate and a perpetual hissing; Everyone who passes by it will be astonished And shake his head.
18:17 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."
18:18 Then they said, "Come and let us devise plans 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 attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words."