KJV King James Version
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.
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Jeremiah 13:22
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
WEB World English Bible
If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.
ASV American Standard Version
And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore are these things come upon me? for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thy heels suffer violence.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And when thou dost say in thy heart, ‘Wherefore have these met me?’ For the abundance of thine iniquity Have thy skirts been uncovered, Have thy heels suffered violence.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 13
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.
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וְכִ֤יH3588 · kiforתֹאמְרִי֙H559 · a.marto sayבִּלְבָבֵ֔ךְH3824 · le.vavheartמַדּ֖וּעַH4069 · mad.du.awhy?קְרָאֻ֣נִיH7122 · qa.rato encounter: meetאֵ֑לֶּהH428 · el.lehtheseבְּרֹ֧בH7230 · rovabundanceעֲוֹנֵ֛ךְH5771 · a.vaniniquity: crimeנִגְל֥וּH1540 · ga.lahHeglamשׁוּלַ֖יִךְH7757 · shulhemנֶחְמְס֥וּH2554 · cha.masto injureעֲקֵבָֽיִךְ׃H6119 · a.qevheel
Cross-references
Nahum 3:5Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.Jeremiah 16:10-11And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what [is] our iniquity? or what [is] our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?Jeremiah 5:19And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these [things] unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land [that is] not yours.Hosea 2:10And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.Lamentations 1:8Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.Jeremiah 13:26Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.Jeremiah 9:2-9Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they [be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.Deuteronomy 7:17If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations [are] more than I; how can I dispossess them?Ezekiel 16:37-39Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all [them] that thou hast loved, with all [them] that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.Isaiah 3:17Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.Jeremiah 2:17-19Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?Isaiah 20:4So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with [their] buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.Ezekiel 23:27-29Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom [brought] from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.Isaiah 47:8Therefore hear now this, [thou that art] given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I [am], and none else beside me; I shall not sit [as] a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:Deuteronomy 18:21And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?Hosea 12:8And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: [in] all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that [were] sin.Deuteronomy 8:17And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of [mine] hand hath gotten me this wealth.Zephaniah 1:12And it shall come to pass at that time, [that] I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
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