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Jeremiah 13:26
26So I will pull your skirt up over your face and expose you to shame like a disgraced adulteress!
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—
- English Standard Version (ESV)I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore I will uncover your skirts over your face, That your shame may appear.
Context of Jeremiah 13:26
24“The Lord says, ‘That is why I will scatter your people like chaff that is blown away by a desert wind. 25This is your fate, the destiny to which I have appointed you, because you have forgotten me and have trusted in false gods. So I will pull your skirt up over your face and expose you to shame like a disgraced adulteress! 27People of Jerusalem, I have seen your adulterous worship, your shameless prostitution to, and your lustful pursuit of, other gods. I have seen your disgusting acts of worship on the hills throughout the countryside. You are doomed to destruction! How long will you continue to be unclean?’”
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וְגַם־אֲנִ֛י חָשַׂ֥פְתִּי שׁוּלַ֖יִךְ עַל־פָּנָ֑יִךְ וְנִרְאָ֖ה קְלוֹנֵֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 13:26
- Jeremiah 13:22You will probably ask yourself, ‘Why have these things happened to me? Why have I been treated like a disgraced adulteress whose skirt has been torn off and her limbs exposed?’ It is because you have sinned so much.
- Lamentations 1:8Jerusalem committed terrible sin; therefore she became an object of scorn. All who admired her have despised her because they have seen her nakedness. She groans aloud and turns away in shame. ט (Tet)
- Ezekiel 16:37therefore, take note: I am about to gather all your lovers whom you enjoyed, both all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around, and I will expose your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness.
- Ezekiel 23:29They will treat you with hatred, take away all you have labored for, and leave you naked and bare. Your nakedness will be exposed, just as when you engaged in prostitution and obscene conduct.
- Hosea 2:10Soon I will expose her lewd nakedness in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to rescue her from me!
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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