Jeremiah 13:18

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.

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."

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 And thou hast said unto them this word, Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, `Every bottle is full of wine,' And they have said unto thee: `Do we not certainly know that every bottle is full of wine?' ¹³ And thou hast said unto them, `Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am filling all the inhabitants of this land, And the kings who sit for David on his throne, And the priests, and the prophets, And all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, [With] drunkenness, ¹⁴ And have dashed them one against another, And the fathers and the sons together, An affirmation of Jehovah, I do not pity, nor spare, nor have I mercy, So as not to destroy them. ¹⁵ Hear, and give ear -- be not haughty, For Jehovah hath spoken. ¹⁶ Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed [it] for thick darkness. ¹⁷ And if ye do not hear it, In secret places doth my soul weep, because of pride, Yea, it weepeth sore, And the tear cometh down mine eyes, For the flock of Jehovah hath been taken captive. ¹⁸ Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low -- sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty. ¹⁹ The cities of the south have been shut up, And there is none opening, Judah hath been removed -- all of her, She hath been removed completely -- ²⁰ Lift up your eyes, and see those coming in from the north, Where [is] the drove given to thee, thy beautiful flock? ²¹ What dost thou say, when He looketh after thee? And thou -- thou hast taught them [to be] over thee -- leaders for head? Do not pangs seize thee as a travailing woman?

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
And Noah buildeth an altar to Jehovah, and taketh of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and causeth burnt-offerings to ascend on the altar;

Genesis 13:4
unto the place of the altar which he made there at the first, and there doth Abram preach in the name of Jehovah.

Genesis 13:7
and there is a strife between those feeding Abram's cattle and those feeding Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite [are] then dwelling in the land.

Genesis 13:8
And Abram saith unto Lot, `Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds, for we [are] men -- brethren.

Genesis 14:13
And one who is escaping cometh and declareth to Abram the Hebrew, and he is dwelling among the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner, and they [are] Abram's allies.

Genesis 18:1
And Jehovah appeareth unto him among the oaks of Mamre, and he is sitting at the opening of the tent, about the heat of the day;

Genesis 23:2
and Sarah dieth in Kirjath-Arba, which [is] Hebron, in the land of Caanan, and Abraham goeth in to mourn for Sarah, and to bewail her.

Genesis 35:27
And Jacob cometh unto Isaac his father, at Mamre, the city of Arba (which [is] Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac have sojourned.

Genesis 37:14
and he saith to him, `Go, I pray thee, see the peace of thy brethren, and the peace of the flock, and bring me back word;' and he sendeth him from the valley of Hebron, and he cometh to Shechem.

Numbers 13:22
and they go up by the south, and come in unto Hebron, and there [are] Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, children of Anak (and Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt),

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.