King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials, surrendered to the king of Babylon. So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.
Jeremiah 13:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Say to the king and the queen mother: Take a humble seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Say to the king and the queen mother, Humble yourselves and take a lowly seat, for down from your head has come your beautiful crown (the crown of your glory). 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. Common English Bible Tell the king and the queen mother: Come down from your lofty place, because your glorious crowns will soon be removed from your heads. Catholic Public Domain Version "Say to the king and to the female ruler: Humble yourselves, sit down. For the crown of your glory has gone down from your head. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Say to the king and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head. |
King Jehoiachin of Judah, along with his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials, surrendered to the king of Babylon. So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.
Nebuchadnezzar deported Jehoiachin to Babylon. He took the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
When he was in distress, he sought the favour of the Lord his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.
His prayer and how God was receptive to his prayer, and all his sin and unfaithfulness and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and carved images before he humbled himself, they are written in the Events of Hozai.
But he did not humble himself before the Lord like his father Manasseh humbled himself; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may worship me.
They made the turban and the ornate headbands of fine linen, the linen undergarments of finely spun linen,
Then her gates will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.
‘Go down and sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, Daughter Chaldea! For you will no longer be called pampered and spoilt.
‘As I live’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘though you, Coniah , son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a signet ring on my right hand, I would tear you from it.
I will hurl you and the mother who gave birth to you into another land, where neither of you were born, and there you will both die.
This was after King Jeconiah, , the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had left Jerusalem.
When they had heard all the words, they turned to each other in fear and said to Baruch, ‘We must surely tell the king all these things.’
All the splendour has vanished from Daughter Zion. Her leaders are like stags that find no pasture; they stumble away exhausted before the hunter.
Her uncleanness stains her skirts. She never considered her end. Her downfall was astonishing; there was no one to comfort her. Lord, look on my affliction, for the enemy boasts.
The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
‘This is what the Lord God says: Remove the turban, and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are; exalt the lowly and bring down the exalted.
Groan quietly; do not observe mourning rites for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your moustache or eat the bread of mourners.’ ,
Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not lament or weep but will waste away because of your iniquities and will groan to one another.
They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments round their waists. They are not to put on anything that makes them sweat.
But when his heart was exalted and his spirit became arrogant, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken from him.
When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child #– #this one is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you at the proper time,