Jeremiah 13:25

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
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy lot: Job 20:29, Psalms 11:6, Isaiah 17:4, Matthew 24:51

because: Jeremiah 2:13, Jeremiah 2:32, Deuteronomy 32:16-18, Psalms 9:17, Psalms 106:21, Psalms 106:22

trusted: Jeremiah 7:4-8, Jeremiah 10:14, Deuteronomy 32:37, Deuteronomy 32:38, Isaiah 28:15, Micah 3:11, Habakkuk 2:18, Habakkuk 2:19

Reciprocal: Psalms 62:10 - Trust Isaiah 17:14 - the portion Isaiah 30:12 - and trust Isaiah 65:7 - therefore Jeremiah 18:15 - my people Jeremiah 48:7 - because Ezekiel 23:35 - Because Romans 1:25 - into a lie

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This is thy lot,.... Meaning not the king's, or the queen's only, but the lot of the whole Jewish state:

the portion of thy measures from me, saith the Lord; which were divided and distributed, and measured out to them by the Lord, who appointed these calamities to befall them, and brought them upon them, and that in righteous judgment. The Targum is,

"and the portion of thine inheritance;''

who, instead of having the land of Canaan for their inheritance, to which the allusion is, and of which they boasted, the land of Babylon was assigned them, not to be possessors of it, but captives in it; and instead of having God to be their portion and inheritance, they were banished from him, and this was but righteous measure; they had measure for measure:

because thou hast forgotten me; their Maker and Benefactor; the goodness he had shown them, the mercies and benefits he had bestowed upon them; or, "my law", as the Arabic version; or, "my worship", as the Targum; therefore he forgot them, took no notice of them, hid his face from them, and gave them up into the hands of their enemies:

and trusted in falsehood; either in the Egyptians and Assyrians, who deceived them; or in their idols, which were falsehood and lying vanities, and could not help them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The portion of thy measures - i. e., “thy measured portion” Job 11:9. Others render it: “the portion of thy lap,” the upper garment being constantly used for holding things Ruth 3:15.

In falsehood i. e - in idols (see the marginal reference).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 13:25. Trusted in falsehood. — In idols, and in lying prophets.