17 I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind.(A)
I will show them[a] my back and not my face(B)
on the day of their calamity.

Plot against Jeremiah

18 Then certain ones said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah,(C) for instruction will never be lost from the priest,(D) or counsel from the wise, or a word from the prophet.(E) Come, let’s denounce him[b] and pay no attention to all his words.”

19 Pay attention to me, Lord.
Hear what my opponents are saying!(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 18:17 LXX, Lat, Syr, Tg; MT reads will look at them
  2. 18:18 Lit let’s strike him with the tongue

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