Jeremiah 13 · Verse 25

Jeremiah 13:25

This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the Lord; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Jeremiah 13:25, King James Version

Jeremiah 13:25 in other translations

BSBThis is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
WEBThis is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says the LORD, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”
ASVThis is thy lot, the portion measured unto thee from me, saith Jehovah; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
YLTThis is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from Me--an affirmation of Jehovah, Because thou hast forgotten me, And dost trust in falsehood.
DARBYThis shall be thy lot, thy measured portion from me, saith Jehovah; because thou hast forgotten me, and confided in falsehood.
BBEThis is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false.
WebsterThis is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

What does Jeremiah 13:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
25. portion of thy measures--the portion which I have measured out to thee (Job 20:29; Psa 11:6). falsehood--(Jr 13:27), false gods and alliances with foreign idolaters.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 25 Trusted in falsehood - In idols, and in lying prophets.

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…

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Jeremiah 13:25 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.

זֶ֣הzehthisH2088
גוֹרָלֵ֧ךְgo.ra.Lekh[is] lot yourH1486
מְנָת\־me.not-[the] portion ofH4521
מִדַּ֛יִךְmi.Da.yikhmeasure<s> yourH4055
מֵֽאִתִּ֖יme.'i.Tifrom with <the> meH854
נְאֻם\־ne.'um-[the] utterance ofH5002
יְהוָ֑הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֲשֶׁר֙'a.SherthatH834
שָׁכַ֣חַתְּsha.Kha.chatyou have forgottenH7911
אוֹתִ֔י'o.Ti<obj.> meH853
וַֽתִּבְטְחִ֖יva.tiv.te.Chiand you have trustedH982
בַּשָּֽׁקֶר\׃ba.Sha.kerin <the> falsehoodH8267

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Cross references for Jeremiah 13:25

  • Job 20:29

    This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

  • Psalms 9:17

    The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

  • Psalms 11:6

    Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

  • Jeremiah 2:32

    Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

  • Matthew 24:51

    And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  • Jeremiah 2:13

    For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

  • Jeremiah 7:4-8

    Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these. For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. …

  • Isaiah 28:15

    Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

  • Psalms 106:21-22

    They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt; Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.

  • Jeremiah 10:14

    Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

  • Habakkuk 2:18-19

    What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

  • Isaiah 17:4

    And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
thy lot.
Job 20:29; Ps 11:6; Isa 17:4; Mt 24:51
because.
2:13,32; De 32:16-18; Ps 9:17; 106:21,22
trusted.
7:4-8; 10:14; De 32:37,38; Isa 28:15; Mic 3:11; Hab 2:18,19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Jeremiah 13:24

    Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

  • Jeremiah 13:25

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

  • Jeremiah 13:26

    Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.

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Jeremiah 13:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Esta es tu suerte, la porción de tus medidas de parte mía, dice Jehová; porque te olvidaste de mí, y confiaste en la mentira.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
C’est là ton lot, ta portion mesurée de par moi, dit l’ Éternel, parce que tu m’as oublié, et que tu t’es confiée au mensonge.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Das ist dein Los, dein von mir zugemessenes Teil, spricht Jehova, weil du meiner vergessen und auf Lüge vertraut hast.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Hæc sors tua, parsque mensuræ tuæ a me, dicit Dominus, quia oblita es mei, et confisa es in mendacio.