Jeremiah 13:25
This [is] thy lot, the portion of thy measures from Me — an affirmation of Jehovah, Because thou hast forgotten me, And dost trust in falsehood.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
24And I scatter them as stubble, Passing away, by a wind of the wilderness.
26I also have made bare thy skirts before thy face, And thy shame hath been seen.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:37And He hath said, Where [are] their gods — The rock in which they trusted;
Psalms 9:17The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.
Psalms 106:21They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt,
Isaiah 28:15Because ye have said: 'We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Doth not meet us, Though we have made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.'
Jeremiah 2:13For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells — broken wells, That contain not the waters.
Jeremiah 7:4Do not trust for yourselves Unto the words of falsehood, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah [are] they!
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 →