Jeremiah 13:25

This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — The LORD speaks through Jeremiah to Judah, declaring imminent judgment immediately after promising to scatter them like desert chaff and before pronouncing public shame. The words — גוֹרָלֵךְ (go.ra.lekh) denotes a divinely assigned lot, while מְנָת (me.not) specifies the exact portion or inheritance of that lot. The thread — This motif of a divinely measured portion for the unfaithful appears in Job 20:29, Psalms 9:17, and Psalms 11:6. Why it lands — It demands recognition that rejecting divine reality for deception results in a predetermined consequence, requiring the reader to examine the source of their own trust.

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The Hebrew words

זֶ֣הzehthis גוֹרָלֵ֧ךְgo.ra.Le/kh[is] lot/ your מְנָת־me.not-[the] portion of מִדַּ֛יִךְmi.Da.yi/khmeasure<s>/ your מֵֽאִתִּ֖יme./'i.T/ifrom/ with <the>/ me נְאֻם־ne.'um-[the] utterance of יְהוָ֑הYah.wehYahweh אֲשֶׁר֙'a.Sherthat שָׁכַ֣חַתְּsha.Kha.chatyou have forgotten אוֹתִ֔י'o.T/i<obj.>/ me וַֽתִּבְטְחִ֖יva./tiv.te.Chiand/ you have trusted בַּשָּֽׁקֶר׃ba./Sha.kerin <the>/ falsehood

King James Version

This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the Lord; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

Cross-references

Job 20:29 This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”
Psalms 9:17 The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.
Psalms 11:6 On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
Jeremiah 2:32 Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
Matthew 24:51 Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Isaiah 28:15 For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
Jeremiah 2:13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Jeremiah 7:4 Do not trust in deceptive words, saying: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
Deuteronomy 32:16 They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
Deuteronomy 32:37 He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,