Jeremiah 13:22

You will ask yourselves, “Why is this happening to us?” I will reply that it is because of your many sins. That is why soldiers of the invading armies will lift up the skirts of your women and rape them.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

21What will you say [RHQ] when Yahweh appoints people from other countries to rule over you, people who you mistakenly thought were your friends? You will [RHQ] suffer very much pain, like a woman who is about to give birth to a baby.

23A man from Ethiopia certainly cannot [RHQ] change the color of his black skin, and a leopard certainly cannot [RHQ] change its spots. Similarly, you cannot start doing what is good, because you have always done what is evil.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:17“Do not think to yourselves, ‘These people-groups are more numerous/powerful than we are, so we certainly cannot [RHQ] expel them.’

Deuteronomy 18:21But if you say to yourself, ‘How can we know if a message that someone tells us does not come from Yahweh?’

Isaiah 20:4What will happen is that the army of the King of Assyria will invade those countries and capture many of the people and take them away as their prisoners. They will force all them, including both the young ones and the old ones, to walk naked and barefoot. They will also force them to have no clothes around their buttocks, which will cause the people of Egypt to be ashamed.

Isaiah 47:8You people of Babylon who enjoy pleasure and sex, listen to this: You enjoy a luxurious life and you feel secure. You say, ‘We are like gods, and there are no others like us. Our women will never become widows, and our children will never be killed in wars.’

Jeremiah 2:19It is because you have been very wicked that I [PRS] will punish you. It is because you have turned away from me that I [PRS] will condemn you. When I do that, you will realize that painful and evil [DOU] things will happen to you because you have forsaken me, Yahweh, your God, and you no longer revere me. That will certainly happen because I, Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels in heaven, have said it.

Jeremiah 9:2I wish that I could leave my people and forget them, and go and live in a shack/shelter in the desert, because they have not remained faithful [MET] to Yahweh; they are a mob of people who deceive others.

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 →

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