English Standard Version
Jeremiah 13:26
26I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.
Jeremiah 13:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
- New International Version (NIV)I will pull up your skirts over your face that your shame may be seen—
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore I will uncover your skirts over your face, That your shame may appear.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I myself will strip you and expose you to shame.
Context of Jeremiah 13:26
24I will scatter you like chaff driven by the wind from the desert. 25This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, declares the Lord, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies. I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen. 27I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?"
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וְגַם־אֲנִ֛י חָשַׂ֥פְתִּי שׁוּלַ֖יִךְ עַל־פָּנָ֑יִךְ וְנִרְאָ֖ה קְלוֹנֵֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Jeremiah 13:26
- Jeremiah 13:22And if you say in your heart, 'Why have these things come upon me?' it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up and you suffer violence.
- Lamentations 1:8Jerusalem sinned grievously; therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away.
- Ezekiel 16:37therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
- Ezekiel 23:29and they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring
- Hosea 2:10Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 13:26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face - It was the custom to punish lewd women by stripping them naked, and exposing them to public view; or by throwing their clothes over their heads, as here intimated. Was this the way to correct the evil?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26Therefore will I - literally, “And I also;” I also must have my turn, I too must retaliate. Compare Nahum 3:5.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-27Verses 18-27 Here is a message sent to king Jehoiakim, and his queen. Their sorrows would be great indeed. Do they ask, Wherefore come these things upon us? Let them know, it is for their obstinacy in sin. We cannot alter the natural colour of the skin; and so is it morally impossible to reclaim and reform these people. Sin is the blackness of the soul; it is the discolouring of it; we were shapen in it, so that we cannot get clear of it by any power of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 26God let the Babylonians take all of Judah's treasures and capture its people.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2626. discover ... upon thy face--rather, "throw up thy skirts over thy face," or head; done by way of ignominy to captive women and to prostitutes (Na 3:5). The Jews' punishment should answer to their crime. As their sin had been perpetrated in the most public places, so God would expose them to the contempt of other nations most openly (La 1:8).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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