Jeremiah 13:18

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 "And then tell them this, ‘ God 's Message, personal from the God of Israel: Every wine jug should be full of wine.' "And they'll say, ‘Of course. We know that. Every wine jug should be full of wine!' ¹³"Then you'll say, ‘This is what God says: Watch closely. I'm going to fill every person who lives in this country—the kings who rule from David's throne, the priests, the prophets, the citizens of Jerusalem—with wine that will make them drunk. And then I'll smash them, smash the wine-filled jugs—old and young alike. Nothing will stop me. Not an ounce of pity or mercy or compassion will slow me down. Every last drunken jug of them will be smashed!'" ¹⁵Then I said, Listen. Listen carefully: Don't stay stuck in your ways! It's God 's Message we're dealing with here. Let your lives glow bright before God before he turns out the lights, Before you trip and fall on the dark mountain paths. The light you always took for granted will go out and the world will turn black. If you people won't listen, I'll go off by myself and weep over you, Weep because of your stubborn arrogance, bitter, bitter tears, Rivers of tears from my eyes, because God 's sheep will end up in exile. ¹⁸Tell 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. ²⁰Look, look, Jerusalem! Look at the enemies coming out of the north! What will become of your flocks of people, the beautiful flocks in your care? How are you going to feel when the people you've played up to, looked up to all these years Now look down on you? You didn't expect this? Surprise! The pain of a woman having a baby! Do I hear you saying, "What's going on here? Why me?" The answer's simple: You're guilty, hugely guilty. Your guilt has your life endangered, your guilt has you writhing in pain.

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 God . He selected clean animals and birds from every species and offered them as burnt offerings on the altar. God smelled the sweet fragrance and thought to himself, "I'll never again curse the ground because of people. I know they have this bent toward evil from an early age, but I'll never again kill off everything living as I've just done.

Genesis 13:8
Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have fighting between us, between your shepherds and my shepherds. After all, we're family. Look around. Isn't there plenty of land out there? Let's separate. If you go left, I'll go right; if you go right, I'll go left."

Genesis 14:13
A fugitive came and reported to Abram the Hebrew. Abram was living at the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and Aner. They were allies of Abram. When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken prisoner, he lined up his servants, all of them born in his household—there were 318 of them—and chased after the captors all the way to Dan. Abram and his men split into small groups and attacked by night. They chased them as far as Hobah, just north of Damascus. They recovered all the plunder along with nephew Lot and his possessions, including the women and the people.

Genesis 18:1
God appeared to Abraham at the Oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent. It was the hottest part of the day. He looked up and saw three men standing. He ran from his tent to greet them and bowed before them.

Genesis 35:27
Finally, Jacob made it back home to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath Arba, present-day Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived. Isaac was now 180 years old. Isaac breathed his last and died—an old man full of years. He was buried with his family by his sons Esau and Jacob.

Genesis 37:14
He said, "Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are doing and bring me back a report." He sent him off from the valley of Hebron to Shechem.

Joshua 14:13
Joshua blessed him. He gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite still today, because he gave himself totally to God , the God of Israel.

1 Timothy 2:8
Since prayer is at the bottom of all this, what I want mostly is for men to pray—not shaking angry fists at enemies but raising holy hands to God. And I want women to get in there with the men in humility before God, not primping before a mirror or chasing the latest fashions but doing something beautiful for God and becoming beautiful doing it.

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.