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25 This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you—
    oracle of the Lord.
Because you have forgotten me,
    and trusted in deception,[a](A)
26 I now will strip away your skirts,
    so that your shame is visible.(B)
27 Your adulteries, your neighings,
    your shameless prostitutions:
On the hills, in the fields
    I see your detestable crimes.
Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will it be
    before you are clean?(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:25 Heb. sheqer: lit., “deception,” often used to designate an idol.

25 This is your lot,
    the portion(A) I have decreed for you,”
declares the Lord,
“because you have forgotten(B) me
    and trusted in false gods.(C)
26 I will pull up your skirts over your face
    that your shame may be seen(D)
27 your adulteries and lustful neighings,
    your shameless prostitution!(E)
I have seen your detestable acts
    on the hills and in the fields.(F)
Woe to you, Jerusalem!
    How long will you be unclean?”(G)

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25 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the Lord; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.

27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?

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