Jeremiah 13:27
Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy harlotry, on the hills in the field have I seen thy detestable acts. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be made clean! When shall it ever be?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
26Therefore will I also uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall appear.
Cross References
Psalms 94:8Consider, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye understand?
Isaiah 57:7Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
Jeremiah 2:20For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands, and thou saidst: 'I will not transgress'; upon every high hill and under every leafy tree thou didst recline, playing the harlot.
Jeremiah 3:6And the LORD said unto me in the days of Josiah the king: 'Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel did? she went up upon every high mountain and under every leafy tree, and there played the harlot.
Jeremiah 4:14O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy baleful thoughts lodge within thee?
Jeremiah 5:8They are become as well-fed horses, lusty stallions; every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 13:23-27
Punishment Predicted; Causes of Jerusalem's Ruin. ( b. c. 606.) 22 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. 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. 24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. 25 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the Lord ;… Read the whole commentary →