Jeremiah 13:26
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New International Version (©2011)
I will pull up your skirts over your face that your shame may be seen--

New Living Translation (©2007)
I myself will strip you and expose you to shame.

English Standard Version (©2001)
I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"So I Myself have also stripped your skirts off over your face, That your shame may be seen.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I will pull your skirts up over your face so that your shame might be seen.

International Standard Version (©2012)
I'll also pull your skirt up over your face, so your shame will be seen,

NET Bible (©2006)
So I will pull your skirt up over your face and expose you to shame like a disgraced adulteress!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I will also tear off your clothes, and your shame will be seen.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Therefore will I uncover your skirts over your face, that your shame may appear.

American King James Version
Therefore will I discover your skirts on your face, that your shame may appear.

American Standard Version
Therefore will I also uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall appear.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore I have also bared my thighs against thy face, and thy shame hath appeared.

Darby Bible Translation
Therefore will I also turn thy skirts over thy face, and thy shame shall be seen.

English Revised Version
Therefore will I also discover thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall appear.

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore will I uncover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.

World English Bible
Therefore will I also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame shall appear.

Young's Literal Translation
I also have made bare thy skirts before thy face, And thy shame hath been seen.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

13:18-27 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. We cannot alter the natural colour of the skin; and so is it morally impossible to reclaim and reform these people. Sin is the blackness of the soul; it is the discolouring of it; we were shapen in it, so that we cannot get clear of it by any power of our own. But Almighty grace is able to change the Ethiopian's skin. Neither natural depravity, nor strong habits of sin, form an obstacle to the working of God, the new-creating Spirit. The Lord asks of Jerusalem, whether she is determined not be made clean. If any poor slave of sin feels that he could as soon change his nature as master his headstrong lusts, let him not despair; for things impossible to men are possible with God. Let us then seek help from Him who is mighty to save.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 26. - Therefore will I, etc. But the Hebrew is much more forcible, "And I also," etc., implying, as Calvin remarks (comp. Proverbs 1:26), a certain retaliation. Upon thy face; an allusion to Nahum 3:5.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face,.... Turn them up, or throw them over the head or face; that is, expose to public shame and disgrace; which was done when their city and temple were burnt, and they were carried captive; hence it follows:

that thy shame may appear; that their sins might appear to themselves and others, of which they had reason to be ashamed. The allusion is to the treatment which captive women sometimes meet with, or adulterous women, to which the Jews are here compared. The Targum is,

"and I also will reveal the confusion of thy sin upon thy face, and thy shame shall be seen.''

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

26. discover … upon thy face—rather, "throw up thy skirts over thy face," or head; done by way of ignominy to captive women and to prostitutes (Na 3:5). The Jews' punishment should answer to their crime. As their sin had been perpetrated in the most public places, so God would expose them to the contempt of other nations most openly (La 1:8).

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Captivity Threatened
…25This is your lot, the portion of your measures from me, said the LORD; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. 26Therefore will I discover your skirts on your face, that your shame may appear. 27I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your prostitution, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! will you not be made clean? when shall it once be?

Jeremiah 49:10 But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, so that he cannot conceal himself. His armed men are destroyed, also his allies and neighbors, so there is no one to say,
Lamentations 1:8 Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have all seen her naked; she herself groans and turns away.
Ezekiel 16:37 therefore I am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and will strip you in front of them, and they will see you stark naked.
Ezekiel 23:29 They will deal with you in hatred and take away everything you have worked for. They will leave you stark naked, and the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your lewdness and promiscuity
Hosea 2:10 So now I will expose her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers; no one will take her out of my hands.
Nahum 3:5 "I am against you," declares the LORD Almighty. "I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness and the kingdoms your shame.