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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 13:21

Translate, “What wilt thou say, O Jerusalem, when He, Yahweh, shall set over thee for head those whom thou hast taught to be thy bosom friends?” The foreign powers, whose friendship she has been courting, will become her tyrants.

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See also Jeremiah 13:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 13:21. _THOU HAST TAUGHT THEM_ TO BE _CAPTAINS_, AND _AS CHIEF_ _OVER THEE_] This is said of their enemies, whether Assyrians or Chaldeans: for ever since Ahaz submitted himself to the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 13 Signs, Warnings, and Exhortations _ 1. The linen girdle and the filled bottles (Jeremiah 13:1) _ 2. Hear and give glory (Jeremiah 13:15) 3. The justice of the judgment (Jeremi

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JERUSALEM'S SHAME. This prophecy, as perhaps others in this chapter, would suit the position of affairs under Jehoiakim, after Carchemish (605). Jerusalem is asked concerning the welfare of her people...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The construction and order in MT. are difficult, and the Hebrew words seem to have suffered some dislocation in the course of transmission. The general sense is: Those whom thou considerest to be thy...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Lament for the calamities brought about by Jerusalem's sin See, O Jerusalem, the northern foe descends on thee. What has become of thy goodly nation? How wilt thou endure those who were erst thy frie...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR THOU HAST TAUGHT THEM, &C.— Houbigant renders it, _Since thou hast made them expert against thee, and hast drawn-them upon thine own head._ "Thou hast frequently called them to thy succour, and ta...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    E. WARNING: Pride is Punished by Disgrace Jeremiah 13:20-27 TRANSLATION (20) Lift up your eyes and see them who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your glorious flock? (2...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail? WHAT WILT THOU SAY WHEN HE SHALL...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    13:21 thee? (b-22) Or 'What wilt thou say, when he shall appoint as chief over thee those whom thou hast taught to be thy familiars?'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S SEVENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN). THE LINEN GIRDLE The date of this prophecy is shown pretty clearly by the word 'queen' (Jeremiah 13:18), which means queen-mother, namely, Nehushta,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'What wilt thou say when he shall set thy friends over thee as head, seeing thou thyself hast instructed them against thee?' The reference is to Egypt and Babylon, the friendship and guidance of wh...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHAT WILT THOU SAY? — The verse is difficult, and requires an entire retranslation. _What wilt thou_ (the daughter of Zion) _say? for He_ (Jehovah) _shall set over thee as head those whom thou taughte...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מַה ־תֹּֽאמְרִי֙ כִּֽי ־יִפְקֹ֣ד עָלַ֔יִךְ וְ֠...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER VIII THE FALL OF PRIDE Jeremiah 13:1 THIS discourse is a sort of appendix to the preceding; as is indicated by its abrupt and brief beginning with the words "Thus said Iahvah unto me," witho...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The account of this time of communion between Jeremiah and Jehovah ends with the story of how Jehovah gave him two signs, one for himself and one for the people. That for himself was the sign of the g...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast (k) taught them [to be] captains, [and] as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail? (k) By seeking to strangers...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Head. Achaz called the Assyrians into the country, and Ezechias had shewn his treasures to the Babylonians. Other kings excited God's indignation._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I interrupt not the reading of those verses, because they are connected. They contain the solemn expostulation of the Lord, in the view of their sins. They point out also the utter impossibility of th...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    As the Prophet observed that the Jews were in no way moved, he addressed them still further, and set before them what seemed then incredible, even the calamity, from which they thought they were able...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 13, bringing to mind how God had bound Israel to His heart, announces the terrible judgment with which the people shall, as it were, be drunken; and, on the ground of this judgment, calls them...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHAT WILL THOU SAY WHEN HE SHALL PUNISH THEE?.... Or, "visit upon thee" f; that is, either when God shall punish thee for thy sins, thou canst bring no charge of injustice against him, or murmur and r...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them [to be] captains, [and] as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail? Ver. 21. _For thou hast taught...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The cities of the south_, &c. The cities of Judah, which lay in the southern part of Canaan, shall be straitly besieged by the enemy, so that there shall be no going in and out; or shall be deserted...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AN EXHORTATION WITH REGARD TO THE IMPENDING DESTRUCTION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    What wilt thou say when He shall punish thee? For thou hast taught them, the heathen rulers whom Zion herself had called as her friends, TO BE CAPTAINS AND AS CHIEF OVER THEE, that is, the Lord Himsel...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    PUNISH: Heb visit upon'...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    18-27 Here is a message sent to king Jehoiakim, and his queen. Their sorrows would be great indeed. Do they ask, Wherefore come these things upon us? Let them know, it is for their obstinacy in sin....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    That is, thou wilt have nothing to say, but be wholly confounded and ashamed when God shall visit thee with this sore judgment, or when Nebuchadnezzar's army sent by God shall visit thee; for thou, ei...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 13:21 say H559 (H8799) punishes H6485 (H8799) taught H3925 (H8765) chieftains H441 head H7218 pangs...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A FINAL APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, FOR IF THEY DO FAIL TO RESPOND THEIR FINAL JUDGMENT WILL COME UPON THEM (JEREMIAH 13:15). The people are called on to look to YHWH while there is s...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sign of the linen girdle and sign of the bottles filled with wine. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who persist in sin, ignoring God's Word, make themselves vessels of wrath fi...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 13:1. _Get thee a linen girdle,_ or “buy thee,” as the Chaldaic reads; which this priest and prophet wore unwashed till it became offensive, and began to excite attention and talk. The priest...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _What wilt thou say when He shall punish thee?_ A QUESTION TO THE IMPENITENT It was in view of certain threatened calamities that were to come on Judah from the hand of the Lord, that this question i...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 13:20 FLOCK. Judah’s people. FRIENDS. Babylon was once Judah’s ally (Isaiah 39:1)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The reference in Jeremiah 13:18 to the “queen” is regarded as determining the date of this chapter. Ewald, Hitzig, Umbreit, Dahler, Hend.,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go down and buy a linen girdle, and put it on, but don't wash it. So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and I put it on. And the word of the LORD came unto...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Thessalonians 5:3; 2 Kings 16:7; Ezekiel 28:9; Isaiah 10:3; Isaia

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    What wilt thou say — Thou wilt have nothing to say, but be wholly confounded when God shall visit thee with this sore judgment, for by thy so often calling them to thy assistance, thou hast taught the...

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