OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 18:17

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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.

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Verse 17. Burning. Hebrew kadim, “eastern,” ( Bible.) coming from Desert Arabia. Exodus 10:13. Calmet.—Back. Thus the Lord now treats the synagogue. Saint Jerome

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