Jeremiah 13:18

Legacy Standard Bible

Say to the king and the queen mother,"Take a lowly seat,For your beautiful crownHas come down from your head."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Say to the king and the queen mother:Take a humble seat,for your glorious crownshave fallen from your heads.

Hebrew Names Version
Say you to the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses are come down, even the crown of your glory.

King James Version
Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

English Standard Version
Say to the king and the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head."

New American Standard Bible
Say to the king and the queen mother, "Take a lowly seat, For your beautiful crown Has come down from your head."

New Century Version
Tell this to the king and the queen mother: "Come down from your thrones, because your beautiful crowns have fallen from your heads."

Amplified Bible
Say to the king and the queen mother, "Humble yourselves and take a lowly seat, For your beautiful crown [the crown of your glory] Has come down from your head."

World English Bible
Say you to the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses are come down, even the crown of your glory.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Say vnto the King and to the Queene, Humble yourselues, sit downe, for the crowne of your glorye shall come downe from your heads.

Berean Standard Bible
Say to the king and to the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord told me to tell you that your king and his mother must surrender their thrones and remove their crowns.

Complete Jewish Bible
Tell the king and the queen mother, "Come down from your thrones, for your magnificent crowns are falling from your heads."

Darby Translation
Say unto the king and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down low; for from your heads shall come down the crown of your magnificence.

Easy-to-Read Version
Tell these things to the king and his wife, "Come down from your thrones. Your beautiful crowns have fallen from your heads."

George Lamsa Translation
Say to the king and to the princes, Humble yourselves and repent, for the crown of your glory has fallen from your heads.

Good News Translation
The Lord said to me, "Tell the king and his mother to come down from their thrones, because their beautiful crowns have fallen from their heads.

Lexham English Bible
"Say to the king and to the queen mother, ‘Take a lower seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head.'

Literal Translation
Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down. For the crown of your glory will come down from your head places.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Tell the kinge & the rulers: Humble yor selues, set you downe lowe, for ye crowne of yor glory shal fall from youre heade.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother: 'Sit ye down low; for your headtires are come down, even your beautiful crown.'

King James Version (1611)
Say vnto the king, and to the queene, Humble your selues, sit downe, for your principalities shall come downe, euen the crowne of your glory.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Tell the kyng and the queene, humble your selues, sit you downe lowe, for your dignitie shalbe throwen downe, and the crowne of your glorie shall fall from your head.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Say ye to the king and the princes, Humble yourselves, and sit down; for your crown of glory is removed from your head.

English Revised Version
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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Seye thou to the kyng, and to the ladi, Be ye mekid, sitte ye, for the coroun of youre glorie schal go doun fro youre heed.

Update Bible Version
Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for what is on your head has come down, even the crown of your glory.

Webster's Bible Translation
Say to the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, [even] the crown of your glory.

New English Translation
The Lord told me, "Tell the king and the queen mother, ‘Surrender your thrones, for your glorious crowns will be removed from your heads.

New King James Version
Say to the king and to the queen mother, "Humble yourselves; Sit down, For your rule shall collapse, the crown of your glory."

New Living Translation
Say to the king and his mother, "Come down from your thrones and sit in the dust, for your glorious crowns will soon be snatched from your heads."

New Life Bible
Say to the king and the queen mother, "Come down from your throne. Your beautiful crown has been taken from your head."

New Revised Standard
Say to the king and the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Say thou to the king and to the queen-mother, Abase yourselves - Sit down, - For descended have your Head-tires, your Crown of adornment.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head.

Revised Standard Version
Say to the king and the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head."

Young's Literal Translation
Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low -- sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.

THE MESSAGE
Tell the king and the queen-mother, "Come down off your high horses. Your dazzling crowns will tumble off your heads." The villages in the Negev will be surrounded, everyone trapped, And Judah dragged off to exile, the whole country dragged to oblivion.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Say to the king and the queen mother, "Take a lowly seat, For your beautiful crown Has come down from your head."

Contextual Overview

¹²"Therefore you are to say this word to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "Every jug is to be filled with wine."' And they will say to you, ‘Do we not very well know that every jug is to be filled with wine?' ¹³Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land—the kings that sit for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem—with drunkenness! ¹⁴I will shatter them against each other, both the fathers and the sons together," declares Yahweh. "I will not spare nor show pity nor have compassion so as not to ruin them."'" ¹⁵Listen and give ear, do not be haughty,For Yahweh has spoken. ¹⁶Give glory to Yahweh your God,Before He brings darknessAnd before your feet stumbleOn the dusky mountains;And while you are hoping for light,He makes it into the shadow of deathAnd turns it into dense gloom. ¹⁷But if you will not listen to it,My soul will cry in secret for such pride;And my eyes will bitterly weepAnd flow down with tearsBecause the flock of Yahweh has been taken captive. ¹⁸Say to the king and the queen mother,"Take a lowly seat,For your beautiful crownHas come down from your head." ¹⁹The cities of the Negev have been closed up,And there is no one to open them;All Judah has been taken away into exile,Wholly taken away into exile. ²⁰"Lift up your eyes and seeThose coming from the north.Where is the flock that was given you,Your beautiful sheep? ²¹What will you say when He appoints over you—And you yourself had taught them—Former companions to be head over you?Will not pangs seize youLike a woman in childbirth?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

unto: Jeremiah 22:26, 2 Kings 24:12, 2 Kings 24:15, Ezekiel 19:2-14, Jonah 3:6

Humble: Exodus 10:3, 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:19, 2 Chronicles 33:23, Matthew 18:4, James 4:10, 1 Peter 5:6

sit: Isaiah 3:26, Isaiah 47:1, Lamentations 2:10

principalities: or, head-tires

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 22:10 - the king 2 Chronicles 12:6 - humbled 2 Chronicles 26:18 - withstood Uzziah Nehemiah 13:17 - I contended Psalms 25:14 - secret Psalms 137:1 - the rivers Isaiah 66:21 - General Jeremiah 17:20 - General Jeremiah 19:3 - Hear Jeremiah 21:11 - General Jeremiah 36:16 - We Lamentations 1:9 - came Lamentations 5:16 - The crown Ezekiel 10:1 - as the Ezekiel 19:1 - take Ezekiel 21:26 - Remove Ezekiel 34:7 - General Ezekiel 34:10 - and I will Daniel 5:20 - deposed Hosea 5:1 - O house Zechariah 12:12 - the family of the house of David apart James 4:7 - Submit Revelation 18:7 - I sit

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to Yahweh and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 13:4
to the place of the altar which he had made there formerly; and there Abram called upon the name of Yahweh.

Genesis 13:7
And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite were living then in the land.

Genesis 13:8
So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers.

Genesis 14:13
Then a fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he was dwelling by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner, and these were in a covenant with Abram.

Genesis 18:1
Then Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.

Genesis 23:2
Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

Genesis 35:27
And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

Genesis 37:14
Then he said to him, "Go now and see about the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the flock, and bring word back to me." So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

Numbers 13:22
And they had gone up into the Negev and came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Say unto the king, and to the queen,.... Jehoiachin, and his mother Nehushta, as it is generally interpreted by the Jewish commentators, and others; who, with many princes and officers, were carried captive into Babylon, 2 Kings 24:12 or rather Zedekiah and his wife; since the captivity after threatened is a perfect and complete one, which Jehoiachin's was not:

humble yourselves, sit down; or, "sit down humbled" d; come down from your thrones, and sit in the dust; humble yourselves before the Lord for your own sins, and the sins of the people; in times of general corruption, and which threatens a nation with ruin, it becomes kings and princes to set an example of repentance, humiliation, and reformation; though it may be this is rather a prediction of what would be, that they should descend from their throne, and lose their grandeur, and be in a low and abject condition, than an exhortation to what was their duty; since it follows:

for your principalities shall come down; their royal state and greatness, and all the ensigns of it; and especially such as they had upon their heads, as the word used denotes, and as the following explanation shows:

even the crown of your glory; or glorious crown, which should fall from their heads, or be taken from them, when they should be no more served in state, or treated as crowned heads.

d השפילו שבו "degite humiliter", Castalio; "abjectissime considite", Junius Tremellius "loco humili considite", Piscator

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The queen - i. e., “the queen-mother:” the word signifies literally “the great lady.” The king’s mother took precedence of his wives.

Sit down - The usual position of slaves.

For your principalities ... - Rather, “for the ornaments of your heads, even the crown of your majesty, shall come down.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 13:18. Say unto the king and to the queen — Probably Jeconiah and his mother, under whose tutelage, being young when he began to reign, he was left, as is very likely.

Sit down — Show that ye have humbled yourselves; for your state will be destroyed, and your glorious crown taken from your heads.