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Jeremiah 13:26
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, from before, covering her with confusion and disgrace, that thy shame may appear.
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, from before, covering her with confusion and disgrace, that thy shame may appear.
Verse Jeremiah 13:26. _THEREFORE WILL I DISCOVER THY SKIRTS UPON THY FACE_] It was the custom to punish lewd women by stripping them naked, and exposing them to public view; or by throwing their cloth...
THEREFORE WILL I - literally, “And I also;” I also must have my turn, I too must retaliate. Compare Nahum 3:5....
CHAPTER 13 Signs, Warnings, and Exhortations _ 1. The linen girdle and the filled bottles (Jeremiah 13:1) _ 2. Hear and give glory (Jeremiah 13:15) 3. The justice of the judgment (Jeremi
JERUSALEM'S SHAME. This prophecy, as perhaps others in this chapter, would suit the position of affairs under Jehoiakim, after Carchemish (605). Jerusalem is asked concerning the welfare of her people...
Lament for the calamities brought about by Jerusalem's sin See, O Jerusalem, the northern foe descends on thee. What has become of thy goodly nation? How wilt thou endure those who were erst thy frie...
E. WARNING: Pride is Punished by Disgrace Jeremiah 13:20-27 TRANSLATION (20) Lift up your eyes and see them who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your glorious flock? (2...
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear. THEREFORE WILL I DISCOVER THY SKIRTS UPON THY FACE - rather, 'throw up thy skirts over thy face,' or head; done by way...
JEREMIAH'S SEVENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN). THE LINEN GIRDLE The date of this prophecy is shown pretty clearly by the word 'queen' (Jeremiah 13:18), which means queen-mother, namely, Nehushta,...
THEREFORE WILL I DISCOVER... — The threat is substantially the same as that in Jeremiah 13:22. The form is verbally identical with that of Nahum 3:5....
וְ גַם ־אֲנִ֛י חָשַׂ֥פְתִּי שׁוּלַ֖יִךְ עַל ־
CHAPTER VIII THE FALL OF PRIDE Jeremiah 13:1 THIS discourse is a sort of appendix to the preceding; as is indicated by its abrupt and brief beginning with the words "Thus said Iahvah unto me," witho...
The account of this time of communion between Jeremiah and Jehovah ends with the story of how Jehovah gave him two signs, one for himself and one for the people. That for himself was the sign of the g...
Therefore will I uncover thy skirts upon thy face, (m) that thy shame may appear. (m) As your iniquities have been revealed to all the world, so shall your shame and punishment....
_Appeared. Thou art treated as a wretched and vile captive. (Haydock)_...
I interrupt not the reading of those verses, because they are connected. They contain the solemn expostulation of the Lord, in the view of their sins. They point out also the utter impossibility of th...
He continues the same subject, — that God did not deal with his people with so much severity without the most just cause; for it could not be expected that he should treat them with more gentleness, s...
Chapter 13, bringing to mind how God had bound Israel to His heart, announces the terrible judgment with which the people shall, as it were, be drunken; and, on the ground of this judgment, calls them...
THEREFORE WILL I DISCOVER THY SKIRTS UPON THY FACE,.... Turn them up, or throw them over the head or face; that is, expose to public shame and disgrace; which was done when their city and temple were...
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear. Ver. 26. _Therefore I will discover thy skirts._] Since thou hast discovered and prostituted thyseff to other lovers, I...
_Therefore will I discover thy skirts_ Lay thee open to shame and disgrace. See on Jeremiah 13:22. _I have seen thine adulteries_ Thy idolatries; thy inordinate desire after strange gods, which thou h...
18-27 Here is a message sent to king Jehoiakim, and his queen. Their sorrows would be great indeed. Do they ask, Wherefore come these things upon us? Let them know, it is for their obstinacy in sin....
Therefore I will expose thee to all manner of shame and contempt, without any regard to thy honour. Those that honour God, God will honour, but those that despise and dishonour him shall not be able t...
Jeremiah 13:26 uncover H2834 (H8804) skirts H7757 face H6440 shame H7036 appear H7200 (H8738)...
A FINAL APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, FOR IF THEY DO FAIL TO RESPOND THEIR FINAL JUDGMENT WILL COME UPON THEM (JEREMIAH 13:15). The people are called on to look to YHWH while there is s...
CONTENTS: Sign of the linen girdle and sign of the bottles filled with wine. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who persist in sin, ignoring God's Word, make themselves vessels of wrath fi...
Jeremiah 13:1. _Get thee a linen girdle,_ or “buy thee,” as the Chaldaic reads; which this priest and prophet wore unwashed till it became offensive, and began to excite attention and talk. The priest...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 13:26 SKIRTS... SHAME. Judah’s spiritual adultery will be exposed (Lamentations 1:9). lewd whorings
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The reference in Jeremiah 13:18 to the “queen” is regarded as determining the date of this chapter. Ewald, Hitzig, Umbreit, Dahler, Hend.,...
EXPOSITION The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal...
Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go down and buy a linen girdle, and put it on, but don't wash it. So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and I put it on. And the word of the LORD came unto...
Ezekiel 16:37; Ezekiel 23:29; Hosea 2:10; Jeremiah 13:22; Lame
Therefore — I will expose thee to shame and contempt....