King James Version
Jeremiah 13:26 in the King James Version says “Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.”
Jeremiah 13:26 · KJV
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be? when: Heb. after when yet?
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“Therefore will I discover”
H2834to strip off, i.e., generally to make naked (for exertion or in disgrace), to drain away or bail up (a liquid)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“upon thy face”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“may appear”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
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