Jeremiah 13:18

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֱמֹ֥ר לַמֶּ֛לֶךְ וְלַגְּבִירָ֖ה הַשְׁפִּ֣ילוּ שֵׁ֑בוּ כִּ֤י יָרַד֙ מַרְאֲשׁ֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם עֲטֶ֖רֶת תִּֽפְאַרְתְּכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

ʾĕmōr to the melek and to the gebîrâ, hashpîlû shēbû, for yārad marʾăshôtêkem ʿăṭeret tipʾartekhem.

Grammar Details

• *ʾĕmōr*: imperative, masculine singular - say
• *lammelek*: preposition with definite article with noun, masculine singular - to the king
• *welagebîrâ*: conjunction with preposition with definite article with noun, feminine singular - and to the queen mother
• *hashpîlû*: hiphil imperative, masculine plural - humble yourselves
• *shēbû*: imperative, masculine plural - sit down
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *yārad*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular - has come down
• *marʾăshôtêkem*: noun, feminine plural with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your head-place/your headtier
• *ʿăṭeret*: noun, feminine singular construct - crown of
• *tipʾartekhem*: noun, feminine singular with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your beauty/glory

Word Meanings

• *gebîrâ*: queen mother/mistress
• *marʾăshôtêkem*: your head coverings/your headpieces
• *ʿăṭeret*: crown/diadem
• *tipʾartekhem*: your glory/your splendor/your beauty

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 24:12 : 12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
• Jer 22:26 : 26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
• 2 Kgs 24:15 : 15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, [those] carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
• 2 Chr 33:12 : 12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
• 2 Chr 33:19 : 19 His prayer also, and [how God] was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they [are] written among the sayings of the seers.
• 2 Chr 33:23 : 23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
• Isa 3:26 : 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [being] desolate shall sit upon the ground.
• Isa 47:1 : 1 ¶ Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
• Lam 2:10 : 10 ¶ The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, [and] keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
• Ezek 19:2-9 : 2 And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. 3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. 4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. 5 Now when she saw that she had waited, [and] her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a young lion. 6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, [and] devoured men. 7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring. 8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. 9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel. 10 ¶ Thy mother [is] like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. 11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. 12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them. 13 And now she [is] planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. 14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, [which] hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod [to be] a sceptre to rule. This [is] a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
• Jonah 3:6 : 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
• Matt 18:4 : 4 ‹Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.›
• Jas 4:10 : 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
• 1 Pet 5:6 : 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
• Exod 10:3 : 3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.