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.
I will scatter them as with an east wind - literally, 'I will scatter them as an east wind (scatters all before it): a most violent wind (Job 27:21; Psalms 48:7; Isaiah 27:8). Thirty-two MSS. read (without as) 'with an east wind.'
I will show them the back, and not the face - just retribution: as "they turned their back unto me ... not their face (Jeremiah 2:27).