Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

Scatter

Jeremiah 13:24
And I will scatter them like stubble scattered by [the] wind of [the] desert.
Deuteronomy 28:25
"Yahweh shall cause you to be defeated {before} your enemies; on one road you shall go {against} them, but you will flee on seven roads {before} them, and you shall become a thing of horror to all of the kingdoms of the earth.
Job 27:21
[The] east wind lifts him up, and he is gone, and it sweeps him away from his place.
Psalm 48:7
With an east wind you shatter the ships of Tarshish.
Hosea 13:15
Although he may flourish among reeds, [the] east wind will come, a wind of Yahweh rising from [the] desert; his fountain will dry up, his spring will be parched. It will plunder his treasury, every object of desire.

Shew

Jeremiah 2:27
[Those who] say to the tree, 'You [are] my father,' and to the stone, 'You gave birth [to] me.' For they have turned [their] {backs} to me, and not [their] faces. But in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us.'
Jeremiah 32:33
And they have turned to me [their] backs and not [their] faces, though {I have taught them over and over again}, but they [were] not listening to accept discipline.
Deuteronomy 31:17
And {my anger shall flare up against them} on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall become as prey, and disasters and troubles shall find them, and they shall say on that day, '[Is it] not because our God is not in our midst [that] these disasters have found us?'
Judges 10:13
Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. Therefore I will no longer deliver you.

The day

Jeremiah 46:21
Even her mercenaries in her midst [are] like calves of fattening, for they also have turned away, they have fled together. They stand not, for the day of their calamity has come, the time of their punishment.
Deuteronomy 32:35
{Vengeance belongs to me} and [also] recompense, {for at the time their foot slips}, because the day of their disaster [is] near, {and fate comes quickly for them}.'
Proverbs 7:25
May your heart not turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her path.