Jeremiah 13:26

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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Jeremiah 13:22, Lamentations 1:8, Ezekiel 16:37, Ezekiel 23:29, Hosea 2:10

Reciprocal: Isaiah 20:4 - with their Isaiah 47:2 - make bare Isaiah 47:3 - I will take Hosea 2:3 - I strip Nahum 3:5 - I will discover Revelation 3:18 - the shame

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face,.... Turn them up, or throw them over the head or face; that is, expose to public shame and disgrace; which was done when their city and temple were burnt, and they were carried captive; hence it follows:

that thy shame may appear; that their sins might appear to themselves and others, of which they had reason to be ashamed. The allusion is to the treatment which captive women sometimes meet with, or adulterous women, to which the Jews are here compared. The Targum is,

"and I also will reveal the confusion of thy sin upon thy face, and thy shame shall be seen.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore will I - literally, “And I also;” I also must have my turn, I too must retaliate. Compare Nahum 3:5.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 13:26. Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face — It was the custom to punish lewd women by stripping them naked, and exposing them to public view; or by throwing their clothes over their heads, as here intimated. Was this the way to correct the evil?