The east wind is (or was at least in those parts) the fiercest wind. As the east wind scatters the chaff, so, saith God, I will scatter them. And when they shall be in great calamity and misery, I will not hearken to them, I will not turn my face to them, or show them my face; but I will turn my back upon them, I will not regard them crying, nor hear their prayers.
Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 18:17
Jeremiah 18:17
17 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.