Jeremiah 13:22
And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
Note Literally and your heels have suffered violence
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.
Note made…: or, shall be violently taken away
If you say in your heart, “Why have these things come on me?” Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity, and your heels suffer violence.
And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore are these things come upon me? for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thy heels suffer violence.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- if
- Deuteronomy 7:17; Deuteronomy 8:17; Deuteronomy 18:21; Isaiah 47:8; Zephaniah 1:12; Luke 5:21, 22
- Wherefore
- Jeremiah 5:19; Jeremiah 16:10, 11
- the greatness
- Jeremiah 2:17–19; Jeremiah 9:2–9; Hosea 12:8
- skirts
- Jeremiah 13:26; Isaiah 3:17; Isaiah 20:4; Isaiah 47:2, 3; Lamentations 1:8; Ezekiel 16:37–39; Ezekiel 23:27–29; Hosea 2:3, 10; Nahum 3:5