Jeremiah 13:26

26 I will pull up your skirts over your face that your shame may be seen—

Jeremiah 13:26 in Other Translations

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

26 I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.

26 I myself will strip you and expose you to shame.

26 I'm the one who will rip off your clothes, expose and shame you before the watching world.

26 I will pull your skirts up over your face so that your shame might be seen.

Jeremiah 13:26 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 13:26

Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face
Turn them up, or throw them over the head or face; that is, expose to public shame and disgrace; which was done when their city and temple were burnt, and they were carried captive; hence it follows: that thy shame may appear;
that their sins might appear to themselves and others, of which they had reason to be ashamed. The allusion is to the treatment which captive women sometimes meet with, or adulterous women, to which the Jews are here compared. The Targum is,

``and I also will reveal the confusion of thy sin upon thy face, and thy shame shall be seen.''

Jeremiah 13:26 In-Context

24 “I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.

25 This is your lot, the portion I have decreed for you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten me and trusted in false gods.

26 I will pull up your skirts over your face that your shame may be seen—

27 your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution! I have seen your detestable acts on the hills and in the fields. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will you be unclean?”

Cross References

• 1. Lamentations 1:8; Ezekiel 16:37; Hosea 2:10; Nahum 3:5