Jeremiah 18:17
17 I will scatter them before their enemieslike dust blowing in front of a burning east wind.
I will turn my back on them and not look favorably on them ▼
▼ 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.”
▼▼ 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.
when disaster strikes them.”
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