Jeremiah 13:22 “And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because…”

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

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

If you say in your heart, “Why have these things come on me?” Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity, and your heels suffer violence.

American Standard Version

And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore are these things come upon me? for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thy heels suffer violence.

Geneva Bible 1599

And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things vpon me? For the multitude of thine iniquities are thy skirts discouered and thy heeles made bare.

Darby Translation

And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, [and] thy heels have suffered violence.

Young's Literal Translation

And when thou dost say in thy heart, 'Wherefore have these met me?' For the abundance of thine iniquity Have thy skirts been uncovered, Have thy heels suffered violence.

Bible in Basic English

And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.

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Cross references

“if”

Deuteronomy 7:17 Deuteronomy 8:17 Deuteronomy 18:21 Isaiah 47:8 Zephaniah 1:12 Luke 5:21

Deuteronomy 7:17 · BSB

You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”

Deuteronomy 8:17 · BSB

You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”

Deuteronomy 18:21 · BSB

You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”

Isaiah 47:8 · BSB

So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’

Zephaniah 1:12 · BSB

And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’

Luke 5:21 · BSB

But the scribes and Pharisees began thinking to themselves, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

“Wherefore”

Jeremiah 5:19 Jeremiah 16:10 Jeremiah 16:11

Jeremiah 5:19 · BSB

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 la…

Jeremiah 16:10 · BSB

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 16:11 · BSB

Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.

“the greatness”

Jeremiah 9:2–9 Jeremiah 2:17–19 Hosea 12:8

Jeremiah 9:2–9 · BSB

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 2:17–19 · BSB

Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?

Hosea 12:8 · BSB

And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”

“skirts”

Nahum 3:5 Jeremiah 13:26 Lamentations 1:8 Hosea 2:10 Isaiah 3:17 Ezekiel 16:37–39

Nahum 3:5 · BSB

“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 13:26 · BSB

So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.

Lamentations 1:8 · BSB

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 · BSB

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 · BSB

the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare. ”

Ezekiel 16:37–39 · BSB

therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you co…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor?

23Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good— you who are accustomed to doing evil.

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