Jeremiah 13:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.””
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“Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low--sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 13:18 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went 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, so that they may worship Me.
- 2 Kings 24:12Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.
- 2 Kings 24:15Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
- 2 Chronicles 33:12And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 33:19His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.
- 2 Chronicles 33:23but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
- Isaiah 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
- Isaiah 47:1“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.
- Jeremiah 22:24“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
- Jeremiah 22:26I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.
- Lamentations 2:10The elders of the Daughter of 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.
- Ezekiel 19:2and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
- Jonah 3:6When 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.
- Matthew 18:4Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
- James 4:10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
- 1 Peter 5:6Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.
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