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Jeremiah 13:18

What does Jeremiah 13:18 mean?

A plain-English look at Jeremiah 13:18 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

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.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low--sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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.

Context

v.17But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah’s flock is taken captive.

v.18This passage

v.19The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 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 chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

  • 2 Chronicles 33:23

    And he humbled not himself before Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

  • Matthew 18:4

    Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

  • Isaiah 3:26

    And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.

  • Jonah 3:6

    And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

  • Lamentations 2:10

    The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

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