Jeremiah 13:18

Good News Translation

The Lord said to me, "Tell the king and his mother to come down from their thrones, because their beautiful crowns have fallen from their heads.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Say to the king and the queen mother:Take a humble seat,for your glorious crownshave fallen from your heads.

Hebrew Names Version
Say you to the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses are come down, even the crown of your glory.

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.

English Standard Version
Say to the king and the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head."

New American Standard Bible
Say to the king and the queen mother, "Take a lowly seat, For your beautiful crown Has come down from your head."

New Century Version
Tell this to the king and the queen mother: "Come down from your thrones, because your beautiful crowns have fallen from your heads."

Amplified Bible
Say to the king and the queen mother, "Humble yourselves and take a lowly seat, For your beautiful crown [the crown of your glory] Has come down from your head."

World English Bible
Say you to the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses are come down, even the crown of your glory.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Say vnto the King and to the Queene, Humble yourselues, sit downe, for the crowne of your glorye shall come downe from your heads.

Legacy Standard Bible
Say to the king and the queen mother,"Take a lowly seat,For your beautiful crownHas come down from your head."

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.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord told me to tell you that your king and his mother must surrender their thrones and remove their crowns.

Complete Jewish Bible
Tell the king and the queen mother, "Come down from your thrones, for your magnificent crowns are falling from your heads."

Darby Translation
Say unto the king and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down low; for from your heads shall come down the crown of your magnificence.

Easy-to-Read Version
Tell these things to the king and his wife, "Come down from your thrones. Your beautiful crowns have fallen from your heads."

George Lamsa Translation
Say to the king and to the princes, Humble yourselves and repent, for the crown of your glory has fallen from your heads.

Lexham English Bible
"Say to the king and to the queen mother, ‘Take a lower seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head.'

Literal Translation
Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down. For the crown of your glory will come down from your head places.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Tell the kinge & the rulers: Humble yor selues, set you downe lowe, for ye crowne of yor glory shal fall from youre heade.

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.

Bible in Basic English
Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother: 'Sit ye down low; for your headtires are come down, even your beautiful crown.'

King James Version (1611)
Say vnto the king, and to the queene, Humble your selues, sit downe, for your principalities shall come downe, euen the crowne of your glory.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Tell the kyng and the queene, humble your selues, sit you downe lowe, for your dignitie shalbe throwen downe, and the crowne of your glorie shall fall from your head.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Say ye to the king and the princes, Humble yourselves, and sit down; for your crown of glory is removed from your head.

English Revised 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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Seye thou to the kyng, and to the ladi, Be ye mekid, sitte ye, for the coroun of youre glorie schal go doun fro youre heed.

Update Bible Version
Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for what is on your head has come down, even the crown of your glory.

Webster's Bible Translation
Say to the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, [even] the crown of your glory.

New English Translation
The Lord told me, "Tell the king and the queen mother, ‘Surrender your thrones, for your glorious crowns will be removed from your heads.

New King James Version
Say to the king and to the queen mother, "Humble yourselves; Sit down, For your rule shall collapse, the crown of your glory."

New Living Translation
Say to the king and his mother, "Come down from your thrones and sit in the dust, for your glorious crowns will soon be snatched from your heads."

New Life Bible
Say to the king and the queen mother, "Come down from your throne. Your beautiful crown has been taken from your head."

New Revised Standard
Say to the king and the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Say thou to the king and to the queen-mother, Abase yourselves - Sit down, - For descended have your Head-tires, your Crown of adornment.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head.

Revised Standard Version
Say to the king and the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head."

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.

THE MESSAGE
Tell the king and the queen-mother, "Come down off your high horses. Your dazzling crowns will tumble off your heads." The villages in the Negev will be surrounded, everyone trapped, And Judah dragged off to exile, the whole country dragged to oblivion.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Say to the king and the queen mother, "Take a lowly seat, For your beautiful crown Has come down from your head."

Contextual Overview

¹² The Lord God said to me, "Jeremiah, tell the people of Israel that every wine jar should be filled with wine. They will answer that they know every wine jar should be filled with wine. ¹³ Then tell them that I, the Lord , am going to fill the people in this land with wine until they are drunk: the kings, who are David's descendants, the priests, the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem. ¹⁴ Then I will smash them like jars against one another, old and young alike. No pity, compassion, or mercy will stop me from killing them." ¹⁵ People of Israel, the Lord has spoken! Be humble and listen to him. ¹⁶ Honor the Lord , your God, before he brings darkness, and you stumble on the mountains; before he turns into deep darkness the light you hoped for. ¹⁷ If you will not listen, I will cry in secret because of your pride; I will cry bitterly, and my tears will flow because the Lord 's people have been taken away as captives. ¹⁸ The Lord said to me, "Tell the king and his mother to come down from their thrones, because their beautiful crowns have fallen from their heads. ¹⁹ The towns of southern Judah are under siege; no one can get through to them. All the people of Judah have been taken away into exile." ²⁰ Jerusalem, look! Your enemies are coming down from the north! Where are the people entrusted to your care, your people you were so proud of ²¹ What will you say when people you thought were your friends conquer you and rule over you? You will be in pain like a woman giving birth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

unto: Jeremiah 22:26, 2 Kings 24:12, 2 Kings 24:15, Ezekiel 19:2-14, Jonah 3:6

Humble: Exodus 10:3, 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:19, 2 Chronicles 33:23, Matthew 18:4, James 4:10, 1 Peter 5:6

sit: Isaiah 3:26, Isaiah 47:1, Lamentations 2:10

principalities: or, head-tires

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 22:10 - the king 2 Chronicles 12:6 - humbled 2 Chronicles 26:18 - withstood Uzziah Nehemiah 13:17 - I contended Psalms 25:14 - secret Psalms 137:1 - the rivers Isaiah 66:21 - General Jeremiah 17:20 - General Jeremiah 19:3 - Hear Jeremiah 21:11 - General Jeremiah 36:16 - We Lamentations 1:9 - came Lamentations 5:16 - The crown Ezekiel 10:1 - as the Ezekiel 19:1 - take Ezekiel 21:26 - Remove Ezekiel 34:7 - General Ezekiel 34:10 - and I will Daniel 5:20 - deposed Hosea 5:1 - O house Zechariah 12:12 - the family of the house of David apart James 4:7 - Submit Revelation 18:7 - I sit

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
Noah built an altar to the Lord ; he took one of each kind of ritually clean animal and bird, and burned them whole as a sacrifice on the altar.

Genesis 13:4
and had built an altar. There he worshiped the Lord .

Genesis 13:7
So quarrels broke out between the men who took care of Abram's animals and those who took care of Lot's animals. (At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were still living in the land.)

Genesis 13:8
Then Abram said to Lot, "We are relatives, and your men and my men shouldn't be quarreling.

Genesis 14:13
But a man escaped and reported all this to Abram, the Hebrew, who was living near the sacred trees belonging to Mamre the Amorite. Mamre and his brothers Eshcol and Aner were Abram's allies.

Genesis 18:1
The Lord appeared to Abraham at the sacred trees of Mamre. As Abraham was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the hottest part of the day,

Genesis 23:2
She died in Hebron in the land of Canaan, and Abraham mourned her death.

Genesis 35:27
Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

Genesis 37:14
His father told him, "Go and see if your brothers are safe and if the flock is all right; then come back and tell me." So his father sent him on his way from Hebron Valley. Joseph arrived at Shechem

Numbers 13:22
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Gill's Notes on the Bible

Say unto the king, and to the queen,.... Jehoiachin, and his mother Nehushta, as it is generally interpreted by the Jewish commentators, and others; who, with many princes and officers, were carried captive into Babylon, 2 Kings 24:12 or rather Zedekiah and his wife; since the captivity after threatened is a perfect and complete one, which Jehoiachin's was not:

humble yourselves, sit down; or, "sit down humbled" d; come down from your thrones, and sit in the dust; humble yourselves before the Lord for your own sins, and the sins of the people; in times of general corruption, and which threatens a nation with ruin, it becomes kings and princes to set an example of repentance, humiliation, and reformation; though it may be this is rather a prediction of what would be, that they should descend from their throne, and lose their grandeur, and be in a low and abject condition, than an exhortation to what was their duty; since it follows:

for your principalities shall come down; their royal state and greatness, and all the ensigns of it; and especially such as they had upon their heads, as the word used denotes, and as the following explanation shows:

even the crown of your glory; or glorious crown, which should fall from their heads, or be taken from them, when they should be no more served in state, or treated as crowned heads.

d השפילו שבו "degite humiliter", Castalio; "abjectissime considite", Junius Tremellius "loco humili considite", Piscator

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The queen - i. e., “the queen-mother:” the word signifies literally “the great lady.” The king’s mother took precedence of his wives.

Sit down - The usual position of slaves.

For your principalities ... - Rather, “for the ornaments of your heads, even the crown of your majesty, shall come down.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 13:18. Say unto the king and to the queen — Probably Jeconiah and his mother, under whose tutelage, being young when he began to reign, he was left, as is very likely.

Sit down — Show that ye have humbled yourselves; for your state will be destroyed, and your glorious crown taken from your heads.