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Jeremiah 13:18-27
New International Version
Jeremiah 13:18-27
New International Version
18 Say to the king(A) and to the queen mother,(B)
“Come down from your thrones,
for your glorious crowns(C)
will fall from your heads.”
19 The cities in the Negev will be shut up,
and there will be no one to open them.
All Judah(D) will be carried into exile,
carried completely away.
20 Look up and see
those who are coming from the north.(E)
Where is the flock(F) that was entrusted to you,
the sheep of which you boasted?
21 What will you say when the Lord sets over you
those you cultivated as your special allies?(G)
Will not pain grip you
like that of a woman in labor?(H)
22 And if you ask yourself,
“Why has this happened to me?”(I)—
it is because of your many sins(J)
that your skirts have been torn off(K)
and your body mistreated.(L)
23 Can an Ethiopian[a] change his skin
or a leopard its spots?
Neither can you do good
who are accustomed to doing evil.(M)
24 “I will scatter you like chaff(N)
driven by the desert wind.(O)
25 This is your lot,
the portion(P) I have decreed for you,”
declares the Lord,
“because you have forgotten(Q) me
and trusted in false gods.(R)
26 I will pull up your skirts over your face
that your shame may be seen(S)—
27 your adulteries and lustful neighings,
your shameless prostitution!(T)
I have seen your detestable acts
on the hills and in the fields.(U)
Woe to you, Jerusalem!
How long will you be unclean?”(V)
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 13:23 Hebrew Cushite (probably a person from the upper Nile region)
Jeremiah 13:18-27
King James Version
Jeremiah 13:18-27
King James Version
18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.
20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
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; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
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