Jeremiah 13 · Verse 26

Jeremiah 13:26

Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
Jeremiah 13:26, King James Version

Jeremiah 13:26 in other translations

BSBSo I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.
WEBTherefore I will also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame will appear.
ASVTherefore will I also uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall appear.
YLTI also have made bare thy skirts before thy face, And thy shame hath been seen.
DARBYTherefore will I also turn thy skirts over thy face, and thy shame shall be seen.
BBESo I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.
WebsterTherefore will I uncover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.

What does Jeremiah 13:26 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
26. discover ... upon thy face--rather, "throw up thy skirts over thy face," or head; done by way of ignominy to captive women and to prostitutes (Na 3:5). The Jews' punishment should answer to their crime. As their sin had been perpetrated in the most public places, so God would expose them to the contempt of other nations most openly (La 1:8).

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face - It was the custom to punish lewd women by stripping them naked, and exposing them to public view; or by throwing their clothes over their heads, as here intimated. Was this the way to correct the evil?

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 13:26 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.

וְגַם\־ve.gam-and alsoH1571
אֲנִ֛י'a.NiIH589
חָשַׂ֥פְתִּיcha.Saf.tiI will strip offH2834
שׁוּלַ֖יִךְshu.La.yikhskirts yourH7757
עַל\־'al-onH5921
פָּנָ֑יִךְpa.Na.yikhface yourH6440
וְנִרְאָ֖הve.nir.'Ahand it will be visibleH7200
קְלוֹנֵֽךְ\׃ke.lo.Nekhshame yourH7036

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Cross references for Jeremiah 13:26

  • Hosea 2:10

    And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

  • Lamentations 1:8

    Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

  • Ezekiel 23:29

    And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

  • Ezekiel 16:37

    Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

  • Jeremiah 13:22

    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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
22; La 1:8; Eze 16:37; 23:29; Ho 2:10

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Context

  • 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.

  • Jeremiah 13:27

    I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?

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Jeremiah 13:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Yo pues descubriré también tus faldas delante de tu cara, y se manifestará tu ignominia.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et moi aussi, je relèverai tes pans sur ton visage, et ta honte se verra.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und so werde auch ich deine Säume aufstreifen über dein Angesicht, daß deine Schande gesehen werde.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Unde et ego nudavi femora tua contra faciem tuam, et apparuit ignominia tua: