Jeremiah 18:17

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 ¹  when disaster strikes them.”

Like a wind from the east, I will scatter them before their enemies; I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster."

‘Like an east wind I will scatter them Before the enemy; I will show them My back and not My face In the day of their calamity.’"

I will scatter my people before their enemies as the east wind scatters dust. And in all their trouble I will turn my back on them and refuse to notice their distress."

I'll scatter my people before their enemies, like autumn leaves in a high wind. On their day of doom, they'll stare at my back as I walk away, catching not so much as a glimpse of my face."

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.

Like the wind from the east, I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity.

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."

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 ¹  when disaster strikes them.”

¹ tc Heb “I will show them [my] back and not [my] face.” This reading follows the suggestion of some of the versions and some of the Masoretes. The MT reads “I will look on their back and not on their faces.”

¹ sn To “turn the back” is universally recognized as a symbol of rejection. The turning of the face toward one is the subject of the beautiful Aaronic blessing in Num 6:24-26.