Jeremiah 18:17

as with an east wind better, perhaps, as an east wind.

look upon … their face mg. shew them the back, and not the face, in answer to the people's own behaviour towards Him. See ch. Jeremiah 2:27. They shall flee for shelter from the enemy as from the sirocco, the scorching wind in Palestine which springs suddenly from the desert in the E. or S.E. Cp. Genesis 41:6 ("blasted") and see on Amos 4:9 in C.B.