Jeremiah 13:22

Translations

Modern

And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.

Traditional

And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.

Literal

And if you should say in your heart, “Why have these things happened to me?—It is by the abundance of your iniquity that your skirts have been uncovered and your heels have suffered violence.

Latin

Quod si dixeris in corde tuo: Quare venerunt mihi hæc? propter multitudinem iniquitatis tuæ revelata sunt verecundiora tua, pollutæ sunt plantæ tuæ.

Original

Hebrew

English

And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.

Notes

Jeremiah 13:20–22

King Jehoiachin did not care about the well-being of his people, the beautiful flock of Judah. Because of the king's many sins, Judah suffered abuse from its supposed allies.

Events

Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

Nahum 3:5
“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.
Jeremiah 16:10–11
When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’
Jeremiah 5:19
And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
Jeremiah 13:26
So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.
Jeremiah 9:2–9
If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
Deuteronomy 7:17
You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”
Hosea 2:10
And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
Ezekiel 16:37–39
…therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.
Isaiah 3:17
…the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”
Jeremiah 2:17–19
Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
Deuteronomy 8:17
You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”

Glossary

Adultery Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (Old Testament) Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah (Person)

Topics

Idolatry: Warnings Against, and Punishments of Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments

Jeremiah 13:22

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