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
I will scatter you like straw that is blown away by a desert wind.
Deuteronomy 28:25
Jehovah will cause you to be stricken before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and flee seven ways from them. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Job 27:21
The east wind carries him off. He is gone and it sweeps him out of his place.
Psalm 48:7
You break the ships of Tarshish using the east wind.
Hosea 13:15
The people of Ephraim have become important among their relatives. However, Jehovah's scorching wind will come from the east. It will blow out of the desert. Then their springs will run dry, and their wells will dry up. The wind will destroy every precious thing in their storehouses.

Shew

Jeremiah 2:27
You call wood your father. You call stone your mother. You turned your backs, not your faces, to me. But when you are in trouble, you ask me to come and rescue you.
Jeremiah 32:33
have turned their backs, not their faces to me. I taught them again and again, but they refused to listen and learn.
Deuteronomy 31:17
My anger will be kindled against them in that day. I will abandon them and hide my face from them. They will be consumed by many evils and troubles. They will say in that day: 'Is it because our God is not among us that these evils have come upon us?'
Judges 10:13
You still left me and worshiped other gods. I am not going to rescue you again.

The day

Jeremiah 46:21
Egypt's hired soldiers are like fattened calves. They will turn and run away together. They will not stand their ground. The day of destruction is coming. At that time they will be punished.'
Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance and retribution belong to me. (Vengeance is mine, I will repay.) Their foot shall slide in time, for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things to come on them come quickly.
Proverbs 7:25
Do not let your heart go after her ways. Do not stray in her paths.