Jeremiah 13 · Verse 18

Jeremiah 13:18

Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

Jeremiah 13:18, King James Version

Jeremiah 13:18 in other translations

BSB	Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”
WEB	Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.
ASV	Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headtires are come down, even the crown of your glory.
YLT	Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low--sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.
DARBY	Say unto the king and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down low; for from your heads shall come down the crown of your magnificence.
BBE	Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.
Webster	Say to the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

What does Jeremiah 13:18 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

18. king--Jehoiachin or Jeconiah. queen--the queen mother who, as the king was not more than eighteen years old, held the chief power. Nehushta, daughter of Elnathan, carried away captive with Jehoiachin by Nebuchadnezzar (2Ki 24:8-15). Humble yourselves--that is, Ye shall be humbled, or brought low (Jr 22:26; 28:2). your principalities--rather, "your head ornament."

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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 18 Say unto the king and to the queen - Probably Jeconiah and his mother, under whose tutelage, being young when he began to reign, he was left, as is very likely. Sit down - Show that ye have humbled yourselves; for your state will be destroyed, and your glorious crown taken from your heads.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 13:18-27

Here is a message sent to king Jehoiakim, and his queen. Their sorrows would be great indeed. Do they ask, Wherefore come these things upon us? Let them know, it is for their obstinacy in sin. We cannot alter the natural colour of the skin; and so is it morally impossible to reclaim and reform these people. Sin is the blackness of the soul; it is the discolouring of it; we were shapen in it, so that we cannot get clear of it by any power of our own. But Almighty grace is able to change the Ethiopian's skin. Neither natural depravity, nor strong habits of sin, form an obstacle to the working of God, the new-creating Spirit. The Lord asks of Jerusalem, whether she is determined not be made clean. If any poor slave of sin feels that he could as soon change his nature as master his headstrong lusts, let him not despair; for things impossible to men are possible with God. Let us then seek help from Him who is mighty to save.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Jeremiah 13:18 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אֱמֹ֥ר'e.MorsayH559

לַמֶּ֛לֶךְla.Me.lekhto the kingH4428

וְלַגְּבִירָ֖הve.la.ge.vi.Rahand to the queen-motherH1377

הַשְׁפִּ֣ילוּhash.Pi.lumake lowH8213

שֵׁ֑בוּShe.vusitH3427

כִּ֤יkiforH3588

יָרַד֙ya.Radit has come downH3381

מַרְאֲשׁ֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔םmar.'a.Sho.tei.Khem[the] place of head yourH4761

עֲטֶ֖רֶת'a.Te.ret[the] crown ofH5850

תִּֽפְאַרְתְּכֶֽם\׃Tif.'ar.te.Khemsplendor yourH8597

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 13:18

Jeremiah 22:26
And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
2 Kings 24:12
And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
2 Kings 24:15
And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 33:12
And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
2 Chronicles 33:19
His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
Isaiah 47:1
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
Exodus 10:3
And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
2 Chronicles 33:23
And humbled not himself before the Lord, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
Isaiah 3:26
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Matthew 18:4
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Jonah 3:6
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

unto.
22:26; 2Ki 24:12,15; Eze 19:2-14; Jon 3:6
Humble.
Ex 10:3; 2Ch 33:12,19,23; Mt 18:4; Jas 4:10; 1Pe 5:6
sit.
Isa 3:26; 47:1; La 2:10
principalities. or, head-tires.

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Context

Jeremiah 13:17
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive.
Jeremiah 13:18
Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
Jeremiah 13:19
The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.

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Jeremiah 13:18 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Di al rey y á la reina: Humillaos, sentaos en tierra; porque la corona de vuestra gloria bajó de vuestras cabezas.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Parle au roi et à la reine: Humiliez-vous, asseyez-vous par terre; car la couronne de votre magnificence est descendue de dessus vos têtes.
German Elberfelder 1871	Sprich zu dem König und zu der Königin: Setzet euch tief herunter; denn von euren Häuptern ist herabgesunken die Krone eurer Herrlichkeit.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Dic regi et dominatrici: Humiliamini, sedete, quoniam descendit de capite vestro corona gloriæ vestræ.