Jeremiah 13:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:12

Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him.

2 Kings 24:15

He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 33:12

And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

2 Chronicles 33:19

And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.

2 Chronicles 33:23

He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.

Exodus 10:3

Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.

Exodus 39:28

And the twisted head-dress for Aaron, and beautiful head-dresses of linen, and linen trousers,

Proverbs 27:24

For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.

Isaiah 3:20

The head-bands, and the arm-chains, and the worked bands, and the perfume-boxes, and the jewels with secret powers,

Isaiah 3:26

And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

Isaiah 47:1

Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.

Jeremiah 22:24

By my life, says the Lord, even if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, was the ring on my right hand, even from there I would have you pulled off;

Jeremiah 22:26

I will send you out, and your mother who gave you birth, into another country not the land of your birth; and there death will come to you.

Jeremiah 29:2

After Jeconiah the king and the queen-mother and the unsexed servants and the rulers of Judah and Jerusalem and the expert workmen and the metal-workers had gone away from Jerusalem;

Jeremiah 36:16

Now it came about that, after hearing all the words, they said to one another in fear, We will certainly give the king an account of all these words.

Lamentations 1:6

And all her glory has gone from the daughter of Zion: her rulers have become like harts with no place for food, and they have gone in flight without strength before the attacker.

Lamentations 1:9

In her skirts were her unclean ways; she gave no thought to her end; and her fall has been a wonder; she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord; for the attacker is lifted up.

Lamentations 2:10

The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.

Lamentations 5:16

The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

Ezekiel 16:12

And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

Ezekiel 21:26

This is what the Lord has said: Take away the holy head-dress, take off the crown: this will not be again: let that which is low be lifted up, and that which is high be made low.

Ezekiel 24:17

Let there be no sound of sorrow; make no weeping for your dead, put on your head-dress and your shoes on your feet, let not your lips be covered, and do not take the food of those in grief.

Ezekiel 24:23

And your head-dresses will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet: there will be no sorrow or weeping; but you will be wasting away in the punishment of your evil-doing, and you will be looking at one another in wonder.

Ezekiel 44:18

They are to have linen head-dresses on their heads and linen trousers on their legs, and they are to have nothing round them to make their skin wet with heat.

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:

Jonah 3:6

And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.

Matthew 18:4

Whoever, then, will make himself as low as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

James 4:10

Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

1 Peter 5:6

For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;