Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, 1 the lewdness of thy zenut (whoredom), 1 and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. 1 Woe unto thee, O Yerushalayim! Wilt thou not be made tahor (clean)? 1 Until when?
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
26Therefore will I uncover thy skirts over thy panim, 1 that thy shame may appear. 1
Cross References
Psalms 94:8Understand, ye brutish among the people; 1 and ye kesilim (fools), when will ye get seichel? 1
Isaiah 57:7Upon a lofty and high har 1 hast thou set up thy mishkav (bed i.e., fertility rites); 1 there wentest thou up to offer zevach. 1
Jeremiah 2:20For long ago I have broken thy ol (yoke), 1 and tore off thy bonds; 1 and thou saidst: I will not serve; 1 when upon every high hill 1 and under every green tree 1 thou hast sprawled, playing the zonah. 1
Jeremiah 3:6Hashem said also unto me in the days of Yoshiyah HaMelech, Hast thou seen that which meshuvah Yisroel (backsliding Yisroel) hath done? She is gone up upon every high hill and under every green tree, and there hath played the zonah.
Jeremiah 4:14O Yerushalayim, wash thine lev from rah, 1 that thou mayest be saved. 1 Ad mosai (how long, how much longer) 1 shall thy sinful machsh'vot lodge within thee? 1
Jeremiah 5:8They were like well-fed, lusty susim: 1 every one neighed after the isha of his neighbor. 1
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 →