💧WEB · Jeremiah 13:22
What does Jeremiah 13:22 mean?
"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."
— Jeremiah 13:22 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
The cities of the South is shut up, and there is no one to open them. Judah is carried away captive: all of it. It is wholly carried away captive.
Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?
What will you say, when he sets over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? Won’t sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?
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.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
“Therefore I will scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.
This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”
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