Jeremiah 13:24
22 And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good— you who are accustomed to doing evil.
“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
25 This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
26 So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
- KJV
- Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
- WEB
- “Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
- ASV
- Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passeth away, by the wind of the wilderness.
- DARBY
- And I will scatter them as stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
- BLB
- “And I will scatter them like chaff [that] passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
- ÅB
- Så vil jeg da adsprede dem slik som strå som farer avsted for ørkenens vind.
- OTB
- "Jeg vil spre dere som agner blåst bort av ørkenvinden.
- B1930
- Så vil jeg da adsprede dem likesom strå som farer avsted for ørkenens vind.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 1:4
Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
Read in contextLeviticus 26:33
But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
Read in contextHosea 13:3
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
Read in contextEzekiel 5:12
A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.
Read in contextEzekiel 5:2
When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.
Read in contextEzekiel 17:21
All his choice troops will fall by the sword, and those who survive will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken.’
Read in contextDeuteronomy 4:27
Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Read in contextJeremiah 4:11–12
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;
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