KJV King James Version
Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, [even] the crown of your glory.
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Jeremiah 13:18
Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, [even] the crown of your glory.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”
WEB World English Bible
Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses have come down, even the crown of your glory.
ASV American Standard Version
Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headtires are come down, even the crown of your glory.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low—sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 13
15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.
17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for [your] pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’S flock is carried away captive.
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?
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אֱמֹ֥רH559 · a.marto sayלַמֶּ֛לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingוְלַגְּבִירָ֖הH1377 · ge.vi.rahqueenהַשְׁפִּ֣ילוּH8213 · sha.phelto abaseשֵׁ֑בוּH3427 · ya.shavto dwellכִּ֤יH3588 · kiforיָרַד֙H3381 · ya.radto go downמַרְאֲשׁ֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔םH4761 · mar.a.shahheadעֲטֶ֖רֶתH5850 · a.ta.rahcrownתִּֽפְאַרְתְּכֶֽם׃H8597 · tiph.a.rahbeauty
Cross-references
Jeremiah 22:26And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.2 Kings 24:12And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.2 Kings 24:15And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, [those] carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.2 Chronicles 33:19His prayer also, and [how God] was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they [are] written among the sayings of the seers.2 Chronicles 33:12And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,Isaiah 47:1Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.Isaiah 3:26And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being] desolate shall sit upon the ground.Jonah 3:6For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.Exodus 10:3And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.1 Peter 5:6Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:Matthew 18:4Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.James 4:10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.2 Chronicles 33:23And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.Ezekiel 19:2-14And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, [and] keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
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