Jeremiah 13:26

It is as though I myself will pull your skirts up over your faces and cause you to be very ashamed because everyone will be able to see your sex organs.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.

In Context

25That is what is certainly going to happen to you; the things that I have determined will happen to you, because you have forgotten me, and you are trusting in false gods.

27I have seen that you act like men who are eager to commit adultery; you are like male horses that whinny when they desire to have sex with a female horse. I have seen that you worship disgusting idols in the fields and on the hills. You people of Jerusalem, terrible things will happen to you! How long will it be [RHQ] until you are acceptable to me again?”

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Cross References

Isaiah 47:3You will be naked and very ashamed. I will get vengeance on you and not pity you.”

Lamentations 1:8The people of [PRS] Jerusalem have sinned very much; it is as though [MET] the city has become like a filthy rag. All those who previously honored the city now despise it, because they see that it has become very disgraced [MET]. Now the people of the city groan, and they cover their faces because they are very ashamed.

Ezekiel 23:29They will be cruel and take away everything that you have worked hard to acquire. They will leave you completely naked [DOU], and everyone will see that you truly are a prostitute.

Hosea 2:12I will destroy all their grapevines and fig trees, which they said were what their idols/gods who loved them paid them for worshiping those idols. I will cause those places to become a desert, and wild animals will eat the fruit that remains.

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 →

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