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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 13:22

Are thy skirts discovered. — The “skirts,” or flowing train, worn by women of rank, the removal of which was the sign of extremest degradation (Isaiah 20:4; Isaiah 47:2; Ezekiel 23:29; Hosea 2:3; Nahum 3:5).

Thy heels made bare. — Better, outraged, or disgraced, made to walk barefoot, like menial slaves; possibly, like the outcast harlot. Compare Isaiah’s walking “naked and barefoot” as the symbol of the coming degradation of his people (Isaiah 20:2).

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See also Jeremiah 13:22 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 13:22. _ARE THY SKIRTS DISCOVERED_] Thy defenceless state is every where known; thou art not only _weak_, but ignominiously so. It is thy _scandal_ to be in so depressed a condition; th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    MADE BARE - Rather, “ill-used, treated with violence.” The long flowing robes worn by ladies of rank, are to be laid aside, that they might do menial work, bare-legged, like slaves. The ill-usage to t...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THY SKIRTS DISCOVERED, &C.— See Isaiah 20:4; Isaiah 47:2. Houbigant reads, _And thy heels galled_ [_with irons._]...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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. IF THOU SAY - connecting this verse wit...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MADE BARE] and thus subject to the roughness of the road as thou art led captive....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ כִ֤י תֹאמְרִי֙ בִּ לְבָבֵ֔ךְ מַדּ֖וּעַ קְר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And if thou shalt say in thy heart, Why come these things upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity are thy skirts (l) uncovered, [and] thy heels made bare. (l) The cloak of hypocrisy will be pulled...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Defiled. Thou art exposed to the brutality of the soldiers._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet again declares that God’s judgment would be just, which he had previously foretold; for hypocrites, we know, do not cease to quarrel with God, except they are often proved guilty; and it i...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IF THOU SAY IN THINE HEART,.... Not daring to express it with the mouth; and which, notwithstanding, God, that knows the heart, was privy to, and could discern all the secret workings of it; putti...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 22. _Are thy skirts discovered._] T...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _If thou say, Wherefore come these things upon me?_ Hypocrites will rarely confess their own shame and God's righteousness, but are ready to expostulate with him, and to inquire why he hath dealt so w...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? in an attempt to deny the blame and the guilt which attached to Judah's many transgressions, then the Lord's answer is: FOR THE GRE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AN EXHORTATION WITH REGARD TO THE IMPENDING DESTRUCTION...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    MADE BEAR: Or, shall be violently taken away...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Hypocrites will rarely confess their own shame and God's righteousness, but are ready to expostulate and dispute with God, and to call him to account why he hath dealt so with them, as if God had deal...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 13:22 say H559 (H8799) heart H3824 come H7122 (H8804) greatness H7230 iniquity H5771 skirts H7757 uncov

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 13:20 FLOCK. Judah’s people. FRIENDS. Babylon was once Judah’s ally (Isaiah 39:1)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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.,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 18:21; Deuteronomy 7:17; Deuteronomy 8:17; Ezekiel 16:37;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Thy skirts — Probably these phrases are fetched from the usual practice of soldiers when they have conquered a place and taken prisoners, to strip them. By skirts is meant the lower part of their bodi...

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