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Jeremiah 18:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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

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15 For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

16 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

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 Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

19 Give heed to me, LORD, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

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Jeremiah 29:18

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"I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,"

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"I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste."

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"When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard."

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"I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;"

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Jeremiah 13:24

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"“Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness."

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Jeremiah 18:1

"The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,"

Jeremiah 18:2

"“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.”"

Jeremiah 18:3

"Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels."

Jeremiah 18:4

"When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it."

Jeremiah 18:5

"Then the LORD’s word came to me, saying,"

Jeremiah 18:6

"“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says the LORD. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel."

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