Jeremiah 13:24

Lexham English Bible

Contextual Overview

²² And if you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things happened to me?' Because of the greatness of your iniquity your skirts are uncovered; your heels have endured violence. ²³ Can a Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then you also will be able to do good, who are accustomed to doing evil. ²⁴ And I will scatter them like stubble scattered by the wind of the desert. ²⁵ This is your lot, the portion of your measure from me," declares Yahweh, "because you have forgotten me, and you have trusted in the lie. ²⁶ So in turn I will bare your skirts over your face, and your shame will become visible. ²⁷ Your adulteries, and your neighings, the shameful behavior of your fornications on the hills in the countryside, I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you continue to be unclean?"

Bible Verse Review
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will: Leviticus 26:33, Deuteronomy 4:27, Deuteronomy 28:64, Deuteronomy 32:26, Ezekiel 5:2, Ezekiel 5:12, Ezekiel 6:8, Ezekiel 17:21, Luke 21:24

as: Jeremiah 4:11, Jeremiah 4:12, Psalms 1:4, Psalms 83:13-15, Isaiah 17:13, Isaiah 41:16, Hosea 13:3, Zephaniah 2:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 30:6 - Dan Job 21:18 - as stubble Jeremiah 9:16 - scatter Jeremiah 18:17 - scatter

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away,.... Because of their many sins, and continuance in them, their habits and custom of sinning, they are threatened with being carried captive into other nations, where they should be dispersed and separated one from another, which would make their state and condition very uncomfortable; and this would be as easily and as swiftly done as the light stubble which is blown away by every puff of wind; nor would they be able any more to resist the enemy, and help themselves, than the stubble is to stand before the wind; as follows:

by the wind of the wilderness; which blows freely and strongly; so the Chaldean army is compared to a dry wind of the high places in the wilderness, even a full wind that should scatter and destroy, Jeremiah 4:11; or, "to the wind of the wilderness" u; and so may denote the wilderness of the people, or the land of Babylon, whither they should be carried captive, and from whence the wind should come that should bring them thither. Kimchi and Ben Melech make mention sea wilderness between Jerusalem and Babylon, as what may be intended.

u לרוח מדבר "ad ventum deserti", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Stubble - Broken straw separated from the wheat after the grain had been trampled out by the oxen. Sometimes it was burned as useless; at other times left to be blown away by the wind from the desert.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 13:24. The wind of the wilderness. — Some strong tempestuous wind, proverbially severe, coming from the desert to the south of Judea.