KJV King James Version
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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Jeremiah 13:25
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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
WEB World English Bible
This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Yahweh; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
ASV American Standard Version
This is thy lot, the portion measured unto thee from me, saith Jehovah; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from Me—an affirmation of Jehovah, Because thou hast forgotten me, And dost trust in falsehood.
Surrounding context — 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.
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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זֶ֣הH2088 · zehthisגוֹרָלֵ֧ךְH1486 · go.ralallottedמְנָת־H4521 · me.natportionמִדַּ֛יִךְH4055 · madgarmentמֵֽאִתִּ֖יH854 · etwithנְאֻם־H5002 · ne.umutteranceיְהוָ֑הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֲשֶׁר֙H834 · a.sherwhichשָׁכַ֣חַתְּH7911 · sha.khachto forgetאוֹתִ֔יH853 · et[Obj.]וַֽתִּבְטְחִ֖יH982 · ba.tachto trustבַּשָּֽׁקֶר׃H8267 · she.qerdeception
Cross-references
Job 20:29This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.Psalm 9:17The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God.Jeremiah 2:32Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.Matthew 24:51And shall cut him asunder, and appoint [him] his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.Psalm 11:6Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: [this shall be] the portion of their cup.Jeremiah 2:13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.Jeremiah 7:4-8Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, [are] these.Isaiah 28:15Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:Isaiah 17:4And in that day it shall come to pass, [that] the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.Micah 3:11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.Deuteronomy 32:16-18They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods], with abominations provoked they him to anger.Deuteronomy 32:37-38And he shall say, Where [are] their gods, [their] rock in whom they trusted,Jeremiah 10:14Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.Psalm 106:21-22They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;Habakkuk 2:18-19What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
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