Yēlìmǐshū 13:18

18 Nǐ yào duì jūnwáng hé taì hòu shuō , nǐmen dāng zìbēi , zuò zaì xiàbiān . yīn nǐmen de tóu jīn , jiù shì nǐmen de huá guān , yǐjing tuō luō le .

Yēlìmǐshū 13:18 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 13:18

Say unto the king, and to the queen
Jehoiachin, and his mother Nehushta, as it is generally interpreted by the Jewish commentators, and others; who, with many princes and officers, were carried captive into Babylon, ( 2 Kings 24:12-15 ) or rather Zedekiah and his wife; since the captivity after threatened is a perfect and complete one, which Jehoiachin's was not: humble yourselves, sit down;
or, "sit down humbled" ^F4; come down from your thrones, and sit in the dust; humble yourselves before the Lord for your own sins, and the sins of the people; in times of general corruption, and which threatens a nation with ruin, it becomes kings and princes to set an example of repentance, humiliation, and reformation; though it may be this is rather a prediction of what would be, that they should descend from their throne, and lose their grandeur, and be in a low and abject condition, than an exhortation to what was their duty; since it follows: for your principalities shall come down;
their royal state and greatness, and all the ensigns of it; and especially such as they had upon their heads, as the word used denotes, and as the following explanation shows: even the crown of your glory;
or glorious crown, which should fall from their heads, or be taken from them, when they should be no more served in state, or treated as crowned heads.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 (wbv wlypvh) "degite humiliter", Castalio; "abjectissime considite", Junius & Tremellius; "loco humili considite", Piscator

Yēlìmǐshū 13:18 In-Context

16 Yēhéhuá nǐmen de shén wèi shǐ hēiàn lái dào , nǐmen de jiǎo wèi zaì hūn àn shān shang bàn diē zhī xiān , dāng jiāng róngyào guī gĕi tā . miǎndé nǐmen pànwàng guāngmíng , tā shǐ guāngmíng biàn wèi sǐ yīn , chéngwéi yōuàn .

17 Nǐmen ruò bù tīng zhè huà , wǒ bì yīn nǐmen de jiāoào zaì àn dì kūqì . wǒ yǎn bì tòngkū liú leì , yīnwei Yēhéhuá de qúnzhòng beìlǔ qù le .

18 Nǐ yào duì jūnwáng hé taì hòu shuō , nǐmen dāng zìbēi , zuò zaì xiàbiān . yīn nǐmen de tóu jīn , jiù shì nǐmen de huá guān , yǐjing tuō luō le .

19 Nánfāng de chéng jǐn dōu guānbì , wú rén kāi fàng . Yóudà quán beìlǔ lue , qiĕ lǔlǜe jìng jǐn .

20 Nǐmen yào jǔmù guānkàn cóng bĕi fāng lái de rén . xiānqián cìgĕi nǐde qúnzhòng , jiù shì nǐ jiā mĕi de qúnzhòng , rújīn zaì nǎli ne .