Jeremiah 13:25
This is thy lot, The portion measured out for thee by me, saith Jehovah, Because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
24Therefore will I scatter you like stubble, Which passeth away before the wind of the desert.
26Therefore will I lift up thy skirts over thy head, So that thy shame shall be seen.
Cross References
Psalms 9:17The wicked shall be driven into the underworld; Yea, all the nations that forger God.
Psalms 106:21They forgot God, their saviour, Who had done such great things in Egypt,
Isaiah 28:15Since ye say, “We have entered into a covenant with death, And with the under-world have we made an agreement, The overflowing scourge, when it passeth through, shall not reach us; For we have made falsehood our refuge, And in deceit we have hidden ourselves.”
Jeremiah 2:13For my people have committed two evils; Me have they forsaken, the fountain of living water, And they have hewn out for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 7:4Trust ye not in lying words, when they say, “The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah are these.”
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 →