Jeremiah 13:22

New American Bible - revised edition

If you say to yourself: “Why have these things happened to me?” For your great guilt your skirts are stripped away and you are violated.

Cross References

Isaiah 20:4

so shall the king of Assyria lead away captives from Egypt, and exiles from Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 3:17

The Lord shall cover the scalps of Zion’s daughters with scabs, and the Lord shall lay bare their heads.

Isaiah 47:8

Now hear this, voluptuous one, enthroned securely, Saying in your heart, “I, and no one else! I shall never be a widow, bereft of my children”—

Jeremiah 13:26

I now will strip away your skirts, so that your shame is visible.

Jeremiah 14:16

The people to whom they prophesy shall be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and the sword. No one shall bury them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour out upon them their own wickedness.

Jeremiah 5:19

And when they ask, “Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?” say to them, “As you have abandoned me to serve foreign gods in your own land, so shall you serve foreigners in a land not your own.”

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has sinned grievously, therefore she has become a mockery; Those who honored her now demean her, for they saw her nakedness; She herself groans out loud, and turns away.

Ezekiel 23:26

They shall strip off your clothes and seize your splendid jewelry.

Hosea 12:8

A merchant who holds a false balance, he loves to extort!

Hosea 2:10

She did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, I who lavished upon her silver, and gold, which they used for Baal,

Hosea 2:3

Say to your brothers, “My People,” and to your sisters, “Pitied.”

Hosea 2:5

Or I will strip her naked, leaving her as on the day of her birth; I will make her like the wilderness, make her like an arid land, and let her die of thirst.

Nahum 3:5

I now come against you— oracle of the Lord of hosts— and I will lift your skirt above your face; I will show your nakedness to the nations, to the kingdoms your shame!

Zephaniah 1:12

At that time, I will search Jerusalem with lamps, I will punish the people who settle like dregs in wine, Who say in their hearts, “The Lord will not do good, nor will he do harm.”

Deuteronomy 18:21

Should you say to yourselves, “How can we recognize that a word is one the Lord has not spoken?”,

Deuteronomy 7:17

If you say to yourselves, “These nations are more numerous than we. How can we dispossess them?”

Deuteronomy 8:17

Otherwise, you might say in your heart, “It is my own power and the strength of my own hand that has got me this wealth.”