Jérémie 13:22

Louis Segond

Si tu dis en ton coeur: Pourquoi cela m'arrive-t-il? C'est à cause de la multitude de tes iniquités Que les pans de tes habits sont relevés, Et que tes talons sont violemment mis à nu.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Que si tu dis en ton cœur : pourquoi me sont arrivées ces choses? C'est pour la grandeur de ton iniquité que tes habits ont été retroussés, [et] que tes talons ont été serrés de près.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et si tu dis en ton cœur: Pourquoi cela m'arrive-t-il? C'est à cause de la grandeur de ton iniquité, que les pans de tes habits sont relevés, et que tes talons sont maltraités.

Darby's French Translation
Et si tu dis en ton coeur: Pourquoi me sont arrivées ces choses? C'est par la multitude de tes iniquités que les pans de ta robe ont été découverts, et que tes talons ont été violemment déchaussés.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

if: Deuteronomy 7:17, Deuteronomy 8:17, Deuteronomy 18:21, Isaiah 47:8, Zephaniah 1:12, Luke 5:21, Luke 5:22

Wherefore: Jeremiah 5:19, Jeremiah 16:10, Jeremiah 16:11

the greatness: Jeremiah 2:17-19, Jeremiah 9:2-9, Hosea 12:8

skirts: Jeremiah 13:26, Isaiah 3:17, Isaiah 20:4, Isaiah 47:2, Isaiah 47:3, Lamentations 1:8, Ezekiel 16:37-39, Ezekiel 23:27-29, Hosea 2:3, Hosea 2:10, Nahum 3:5

made bare: or, shall be violently taken away

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 7:21 - Why Jeremiah 2:25 - Withhold Jeremiah 14:16 - for Ezekiel 16:36 - and thy Ezekiel 23:26 - strip Micah 1:11 - thou inhabitant of Saphir

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if thou say in thine heart,.... Not daring to express it with the mouth; and which, notwithstanding, God, that knows the heart, was privy to, and could discern all the secret workings of it; putting such a question as this:

wherefore come these things upon me? all these calamities, the invasion and siege of the enemy, famine, sword, captivity, c.: the answer returned is,

for the greatness of thine iniquity the enormous crimes the Jews were guilty of, such as idolatry, blasphemy, c. which were attended with aggravated circumstances: or, "for the multitude of thine iniquity" h their sins being so many, as well as great:

are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare; being obliged to walk naked and barefoot, their buttocks uncovered, and their legs and feet naked, without stockings or shoes, as captives used to be led, to their great shame and disgrace; see Isaiah 20:2. The phrases are expressive of captivity, and the manner of it; the cause of which was the greatness and multitude of their sins. The Targum is,

"because thy sins are multiplied, thy confusion is revealed, thy shame is seen.''

h ברב עונך "propter multitudinem iniquitatis tuae", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Made bare - Rather, “ill-used, treated with violence.” The long flowing robes worn by ladies of rank, are to be laid aside, that they might do menial work, bare-legged, like slaves. The ill-usage to the heels is the having to tramp barefoot, a thing very painful to women accustomed to the seclusion of the female apartments.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 13:22. Are thy skirts discovered — Thy defenceless state is every where known; thou art not only weak, but ignominiously so. It is thy scandal to be in so depressed a condition; thou art lower than the basest of thy adversaries, and thou art so because of thy sin.