Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to your God YHWH, || Before He causes darkness, || And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, || And you have waited for light, || And He has made it for death-shade, || And has appointed [it] for thick darkness.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
15Hear, and give ear—do not be haughty, || For YHWH has spoken.
Cross References
Joshua 7:19And Joshua says to Achan, “My son, please give glory to YHWH, God of Israel, and give thanks to Him, and now declare to me what you have done—do not hide [it] from me.”
Psalms 29:2Ascribe to YHWH the glory of His Name, || Bow yourselves to YHWH, || In the beauty of holiness.
Psalms 96:7Ascribe to YHWH, O families of the peoples, || Ascribe to YHWH glory and strength.
Ecclesiastes 11:8But if man lives many years, || In all of them let him rejoice, || And remember the days of darkness, || For they are many! All that is coming [is] vanity.
Isaiah 5:30And it howls against it in that day as the howling of a sea, || And it has looked attentively to the land, || And behold, darkness—distress, || And light has been darkened by its abundance!
Isaiah 59:9Therefore judgment has been far from us, || And righteousness does not reach us, || We wait for light, and behold, darkness, || For brightness—in thick darkness we go,
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 13:13-22
The Bottles Filled with Wine; Punishment Predicted; A Call to Repentance. ( b. c. 606.) 12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? 13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord , Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the… Read the whole commentary →