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Jeremiah 13:22
And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks through Jeremiah to Judah, immediately following a warning about the anguish that will grip them when their own trained allies turn against them.
The words — בְּ/רֹ֧ב (be./Ro) = in/ [the] greatness of [H7230] and עֲוֹנֵ֛/ךְ ('a.vo.Ne/kh) = iniquity/ your [H5771] pinpoint the direct cause of the coming exposure.
The thread — The pattern of divine exposure and the people’s demand for reasons for disaster recurs in Nahum 3:5, Jeremiah 16:10, and Jeremiah 5:19, though Nahum 3:5 contains only God's declaration of exposure and judgment, with no mention of the people demanding reasons for disaster.
Why it lands — The text states that stripped skirts and exposed bodies result directly from accumulated iniquity, demanding the reader accept judgment as a measured consequence rather than an arbitrary event.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
Cross-references
- Nahum 3:5 “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.
- Jeremiah 16:10 When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’
- Jeremiah 5:19 And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
- Deuteronomy 7:17 You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”
- Jeremiah 9:2 If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
- Jeremiah 13:26 So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.
- Lamentations 1:8 Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
- Hosea 2:10 And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
- Isaiah 3:17 the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”
- Jeremiah 2:17 Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?