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Will not pain grip you like that of a woman in labor? <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/13.htm">New Living Translation</a> What will you say when the LORD takes the allies you have cultivated and appoints them as your rulers? Pangs of anguish will grip you, like those of a woman in labor! <a href="/esv/jeremiah/13.htm">English Standard Version</a> What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Will not pangs take hold of you like those of a woman in labor? <a href="/bsb/jeremiah/13.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor? <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/13.htm">King James Bible</a> What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail? <a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/13.htm">New King James Version</a> What will you say when He punishes you? For you have taught them To be chieftains, to be head over you. Will not pangs seize you, Like a woman in labor? <a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/13.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “What will you say when He appoints over you— And you yourself had taught them— Former companions to be head over you? Will sharp pains not take hold of you Like a woman in childbirth? <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/13.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220What will you say when He appoints over you— And you yourself had taught them— Former companions to be head over you? Will not pangs take hold of you Like a woman in childbirth? <a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/13.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “What will you say when He appoints over you— And you yourself had taught them— Former companions to be head over you? Will not pangs take hold of you, Like a woman in childbirth? <a href="/lsb/jeremiah/13.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> What 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 you Like a woman in childbirth? <a href="/amp/jeremiah/13.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “What will you say [O Jerusalem] when the LORD appoints [foreign nations to rule] over you— Those former friends and allies whom you have encouraged [to be your companions]— Will not pain seize you Like [that of] a woman in childbirth? <a href="/csb/jeremiah/13.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> What will you say when he appoints close friends as leaders over you, ones you yourself trained? Won’t labor pains seize you, as they do a woman in labor? <a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/13.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> What will you say when He appoints close friends as leaders over you, ones you yourself trained? Won&#8217t labor pains seize you, as they do a woman in labor? <a href="/asv/jeremiah/13.htm">American Standard Version</a> What wilt thou say, when he shall set over thee as head those whom thou hast thyself taught to be friends to thee? shall not sorrows take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail? <a href="/cev/jeremiah/13.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> You once trusted them to help, but now I'll let them rule you. What do you say about that? You will be in pain like a woman giving birth. <a href="/erv/jeremiah/13.htm">English Revised Version</a> What wilt thou say, when he shall set thy friends over thee as head, seeing thou thyself hast instructed them against thee? shall not sorrows take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail? <a href="/gwt/jeremiah/13.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> What will you say when God makes the people you thought were your friends your new masters? Won't pain grip you like a woman in labor? <a href="/gnt/jeremiah/13.htm">Good News Translation</a> What will you say when people you thought were your friends conquer you and rule over you? You will be in pain like a woman giving birth. <a href="/isv/jeremiah/13.htm">International Standard Version</a> What will you say when the LORD appoints over you as your head those whom you taught to be your allies? Pain will seize you like that seizing a woman about to give birth, will it not? <a href="/msb/jeremiah/13.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor? <a href="/net/jeremiah/13.htm">NET Bible</a> What will you say when the LORD appoints as rulers over you those allies that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such? Then anguish and agony will grip you like that of a woman giving birth to a baby. <a href="/nheb/jeremiah/13.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? Shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail? <a href="/wbt/jeremiah/13.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail? <a href="/web/jeremiah/13.htm">World English Bible</a> What will you say when he sets over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? Won’t sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail? <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/13.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> What do you say when He looks after you? And you have taught them [to be] over you—leaders for head? Do pangs not seize you as a travailing woman? <a href="/ylt/jeremiah/13.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> What dost thou say, when He looketh after thee? And thou -- thou hast taught them to be over thee -- leaders for head? Do not pangs seize thee as a travailing woman? <a href="/slt/jeremiah/13.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> What wilt thou say when he shall review upon thee? and thou didst teach them the chiefs for head over thee: shall not pains lay hold of thee as a woman bringing forth?<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/jeremiah/13.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee? for thou hast taught them against thee, and instructed them against thy own head: shall not sorrows lay hold on thee, as a woman in labour? <a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/13.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> What will you say when he visits upon you? For you have taught them against you, and you have instructed them with your own head. Will not pains take hold of you, as with a woman in labor? <a href="/nabre/jeremiah/13.htm">New American Bible</a> What will you say when rulers are appointed over you, those you taught to be allies? Will not pains seize you like those of a woman giving birth? <a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/13.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you have trained to be your allies? Will not pangs take hold of you, like those of a woman in labor?<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/13.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> What will you say when he shall punish you? For you have taught the people a doctrine which has caused them to be trodden under foot; behold, you shall be seized with pain as a woman in travail. <a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/13.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> What will you say when he will visit with you, and you have taught them doctrine so that they will be for treading under foot? Behold, labor pains shall seize you like a woman that is in labor to give birth!<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/jeremiah/13.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> What wilt thou say, when He shall set the friends over thee as head, Whom thou thyself hast trained against thee? Shall not pangs take hold of thee, As of a woman in travail? <a href="/sep/jeremiah/13.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> What wilt thou say when they shall visit thee, for thou didst teach them lessons for rule against thyself; shall not pangs seize thee as a woman in travail? <a href="/parallel/jeremiah/13-21.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=4072" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/13.htm">Captivity Threatened</a> …20Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride? 21<a href="/hebrew/4100.htm" title="4100: mah- (Interrog) -- What? how? anything. ">What</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: tō·mə·rî (V-Qal-Imperf-2fs) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">will you say</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">when</a> <a href="/hebrew/6485.htm" title="6485: yip̄·qōḏ (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To attend to, visit, muster, appoint. A primitive root; to visit; by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.">He sets</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘ā·la·yiḵ (Prep:: 2fs) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">over you</a> <a href="/hebrew/441.htm" title="441: ’al·lu·p̄îm (N-mp) -- Or talluph; from 'alph; familiar; a friend, also gentle; hence, a bullock; and so, a chieftain.">close</a> <a href="/hebrew/7218.htm" title="7218: lə·rōš (Prep-l:: N-ms) -- Head. From an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head, whether literal or figurative.">allies</a> <a href="/hebrew/859.htm" title="859: wə·’at (Conj-w:: Pro-2fs) -- You (masc. sing.). ">whom you</a> <a href="/hebrew/3925.htm" title="3925: lim·maḏt (V-Piel-Perf-2fs) -- A primitive root; properly, to goad, i.e. to teach:(un-) accustomed, X diligently, expert, instruct, learn, skilful, teach(-er,ing).">yourself trained?</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·ṯām (DirObjM:: 3mp) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘ā·la·yiḵ (Prep:: 2fs) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: hă·lō·w (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">Will not</a> <a href="/hebrew/2256.htm" title="2256: ḥă·ḇā·lîm (N-mp) -- A rope, a measuring line, a district, inheritance, a noose, a company, a throe, ruin.">pangs of anguish</a> <a href="/hebrew/270.htm" title="270: yō·ḥĕ·zūḵ (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp:: 2fs) -- To grasp, take hold, take possession. A primitive root; to seize.">grip you,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3644.htm" title="3644: kə·mōw (Prep) -- Like, as, when. Or kamow; a form of the prefix k-, but used separately; as, thus, so.">as</a> <a href="/hebrew/802.htm" title="802: ’ê·šeṯ (N-fsc) -- Woman, wife, female. Feminine of 'iysh or 'enowsh; irregular plural, nashiym; a woman.">they do a woman</a> <a href="/hebrew/3205.htm" title="3205: lê·ḏāh (N-fs) -- A primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage.">in labor?</a> 22And 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.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-49.htm">Deuteronomy 28:49-50</a> The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand, / a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young. <a href="/isaiah/3-4.htm">Isaiah 3:4-5</a> “I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.” / The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable. <a href="/isaiah/3-12.htm">Isaiah 3:12</a> Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths. <a href="/isaiah/47-1.htm">Isaiah 47:1-3</a> “Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate. / Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams. / Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.” <a href="/lamentations/1-5.htm">Lamentations 1:5</a> Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy. <a href="/lamentations/5-8.htm">Lamentations 5:8</a> Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands. <a href="/ezekiel/23-22.htm">Ezekiel 23:22-24</a> Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will incite your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust. And I will bring them against you from every side— / the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them—all desirable young men, governors and commanders, officers and men of renown, mounted on horses. / They will come against you with a host of peoples, with weapons, chariots, and wagons. They will array themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet. I will delegate judgment to them, and they will punish you according to their own standards. <a href="/hosea/13-10.htm">Hosea 13:10-11</a> Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”? / So in My anger I gave you a king, and in My wrath I took him away. <a href="/micah/4-9.htm">Micah 4:9</a> Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor? <a href="/nahum/3-12.htm">Nahum 3:12-13</a> All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater! / Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars. <a href="/matthew/24-45.htm">Matthew 24:45-51</a> Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the others their food at the proper time? / Blessed is that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. / Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. ... <a href="/mark/13-12.htm">Mark 13:12</a> Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death. <a href="/luke/19-41.htm">Luke 19:41-44</a> As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it / and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. / For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. ... <a href="/luke/21-24.htm">Luke 21:24</a> They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. <a href="/john/19-15.htm">John 19:15</a> At this, they shouted, “Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” “Shall I crucify your King?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” replied the chief priests.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>What will you say when he shall punish you? for you have taught them to be captains, and as chief over you: shall not sorrows take you, as a woman in travail?wilt.<a href="/jeremiah/5-31.htm">Jeremiah 5:31</a> The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?<a href="/jeremiah/22-23.htm">Jeremiah 22:23</a> O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!<a href="/isaiah/10-3.htm">Isaiah 10:3</a> And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?punish.<a href="/2_kings/16-7.htm">2 Kings 16:7</a> So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.<a href="/isaiah/39-2.htm">Isaiah 39:2-4</a> And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not… shall not.<a href="/jeremiah/4-31.htm">Jeremiah 4:31</a> For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.<a href="/jeremiah/6-24.htm">Jeremiah 6:24</a> We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.<a href="/jeremiah/30-6.htm">Jeremiah 30:6</a> Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_chronicles/5-20.htm">Allies</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-1.htm">Appoints</a> <a href="/isaiah/21-5.htm">Captains</a> <a href="/isaiah/41-9.htm">Chief</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-24.htm">Childbirth</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-11.htm">Companions</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-25.htm">Cultivated</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10-16.htm">Former</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-4.htm">Friends</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-21.htm">Grip</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-18.htm">Head</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-21.htm">Hold</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-31.htm">Labor</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-13.htm">Pain</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-24.htm">Pangs</a> <a href="/jeremiah/11-22.htm">Punish</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-1.htm">Puts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-8.htm">Sets</a> <a href="/isaiah/54-4.htm">Sorrows</a> <a href="/isaiah/50-4.htm">Special</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-16.htm">Taught</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-5.htm">Thyself</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-5.htm">Trained</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-24.htm">Travail</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-25.htm">Visit</a> <a href="/jeremiah/12-5.htm">Wilt</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/22-20.htm">Allies</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-35.htm">Appoints</a> <a href="/jeremiah/26-21.htm">Captains</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-1.htm">Chief</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-23.htm">Childbirth</a> <a href="/ezekiel/37-16.htm">Companions</a> <a href="/ezekiel/36-9.htm">Cultivated</a> <a href="/jeremiah/30-20.htm">Former</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-4.htm">Friends</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-24.htm">Grip</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-4.htm">Head</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-9.htm">Hold</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-18.htm">Labor</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15-18.htm">Pain</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-23.htm">Pangs</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-10.htm">Punish</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-5.htm">Puts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/43-3.htm">Sets</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-24.htm">Sorrows</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-15.htm">Special</a> <a href="/jeremiah/28-16.htm">Taught</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-4.htm">Thyself</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-23.htm">Trained</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-23.htm">Travail</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-10.htm">Visit</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-27.htm">Wilt</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 13</div>1. <a href="/jeremiah/13-1.htm">By the type of a linen belt, hidden at Euphrates, </a> 9. <a href="/jeremiah/13-9.htm">God prefigures the destruction of his people.</a> 12. <a href="/jeremiah/13-12.htm">By the parable of bottles filled with wine he foretells their drunkenness in misery.</a> 15. <a href="/jeremiah/13-15.htm">He exhorts to prevent their future judgments.</a> 22. <a href="/jeremiah/13-22.htm">He shows their abominations are the cause thereof.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/jeremiah/13.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/jeremiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/jeremiah/13.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? This phrase addresses the impending judgment on Judah, where God warns that the very nations they sought alliances with will become their oppressors. Historically, Judah often sought political alliances with surrounding nations like Egypt and Babylon, contrary to God's command to rely solely on Him (<a href="/isaiah/30.htm">Isaiah 30:1-2</a>). The irony is that these allies, whom Judah trusted and even influenced, would turn against them. This reflects a broader biblical theme of misplaced trust, as seen in <a href="/psalms/146-3.htm">Psalm 146:3</a>, which warns against putting trust in princes or mortal men. The phrase also highlights the sovereignty of God in using even foreign nations to accomplish His purposes, a theme prevalent throughout the prophetic books.Will not pangs of anguish grip you, The imagery of "pangs of anguish" is a common biblical metaphor for sudden and intense suffering, often used to describe the distress of a nation under divine judgment (<a href="/isaiah/13-8.htm">Isaiah 13:8</a>, <a href="/micah/4-9.htm">Micah 4:9</a>). This metaphor evokes the idea of unavoidable and overwhelming pain, emphasizing the severity of the coming judgment. In the context of Jeremiah, it underscores the inevitability of the consequences of Judah's disobedience and idolatry. The use of such vivid imagery serves to awaken the people to the seriousness of their situation and the urgency of repentance.as they do a woman in labor? The comparison to a woman in labor is a powerful image of unavoidable and intense suffering that leads to a new reality. In biblical literature, labor pains often symbolize the birth of a new era or the coming of God's judgment (<a href="/matthew/24-8.htm">Matthew 24:8</a>). This metaphor not only conveys the intensity of the suffering but also suggests a transformative process. For Judah, this transformation would involve the painful experience of exile and the eventual restoration. The labor imagery also points to the hope of redemption and renewal, as seen in <a href="/romans/8-22.htm">Romans 8:22-23</a>, where creation's groaning in labor pains anticipates the ultimate redemption through Christ.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a> A prophet called by God to deliver messages of warning and hope to the people of Judah. His ministry spanned the reigns of several kings and was marked by themes of repentance and judgment. 2. <a href="/topical/j/judah.htm">Judah</a> The southern kingdom of Israel, which was often warned by prophets like Jeremiah about impending judgment due to their disobedience and idolatry. 3. <a href="/topical/a/allies.htm">Allies</a> Refers to the foreign nations or leaders that Judah sought alliances with, instead of relying on God. These alliances often led to further spiritual and political compromise. 4. <a href="/topical/p/pain_like_a_woman_in_labor.htm">Pain like a woman in labor</a> A metaphor used to describe the intense suffering and inevitable consequences that Judah would face due to their unfaithfulness. 5. <a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a> The sovereign Lord who is orchestrating events and allowing Judah to face the consequences of their choices, emphasizing His justice and righteousness.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/r/reliance_on_god_alone.htm">Reliance on God Alone</a> Judah's alliances with foreign nations illustrate the danger of relying on human strength and wisdom instead of God. Believers today are called to trust in God's provision and guidance rather than worldly solutions. <a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_disobedience.htm">Consequences of Disobedience</a> Just as Judah faced severe consequences for their unfaithfulness, Christians are reminded that disobedience to God leads to spiritual and sometimes physical repercussions. <a href="/topical/t/the_pain_of_correction.htm">The Pain of Correction</a> The metaphor of labor pains signifies that God's correction, though painful, is purposeful and leads to eventual restoration. Believers should embrace God's discipline as a sign of His love and desire for their growth. <a href="/topical/t/the_sovereignty_of_god.htm">The Sovereignty of God</a> God's control over the events in Judah's history reassures believers of His sovereignty in their lives. Trusting in His plan, even when it involves hardship, is crucial for spiritual maturity.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_13.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 13</a> <a href="/q/did_judah's_kings_follow_or_stray_from_god.htm">How did Judah's kings follow or stray from God?</a> <a href="/q/how_many_animals_were_on_the_ark.htm">What does the Bible say about Arabs?</a> <a href="/q/why_does_god_threaten_destruction,_not_mercy.htm">Why would God threaten complete destruction (Jeremiah 21:5-6) instead of offering a path to repentance, seeming to contradict earlier scriptures that highlight mercy?</a> <a href="/q/why_do_believers_still_suffer_long.htm">Psalm 30:11-12: If mourning is truly turned to dancing, why do faithful believers throughout history often remain in prolonged suffering?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/13.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(21) What wilt thou say?--The verse is difficult, and requires an entire retranslation. What wilt thou (the daughter of Zion) say? for He (Jehovah) shall set over thee as head those whom thou taughtest (=tried to teach) to be thy familiar friends. This was to be the end of the alliance in which Judah had trusted. She had courted the Chaldean nobles as her lover-guides and friends (the word is the same as in <a href="/jeremiah/3-4.htm" title="Will you not from this time cry to me, My father, you are the guide of my youth?">Jeremiah 3:4</a>; <a href="/psalms/55-13.htm" title="But it was you, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance.">Psalm 55:13</a>; <a href="/proverbs/2-17.htm" title="Which forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.">Proverbs 2:17</a>; <a href="/proverbs/16-28.htm" title="A fraudulent man sows strife: and a whisperer separates chief friends.">Proverbs 16:28</a>). Another possible construction gives, shall set over thee those whom thou delightest to be thy friends as head over thee, i.e., those whose supremacy Judah had acknowledged in order that she might court their alliance. What could come then but that which was to the Hebrew the type of extremest anguish (<a href="/isaiah/13-8.htm" title="And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.">Isaiah 13:8</a>; <a href="/isaiah/21-3.htm" title="Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold on me, as the pangs of a woman that travails: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.">Isaiah 21:3</a>; <a href="/psalms/48-6.htm" title="Fear took hold on them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.">Psalm 48:6</a>), the travail-pangs which were followed by no joy that a man was born into the world (<a href="/john/16-21.htm" title="A woman when she is in travail has sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.">John 16:21</a>)? . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/13.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 21. - What wilt thou say, etc.? The rendering of the verse is uncertain, though the Authorized Version undoubtedly requires correction. The alternatives are, What wilt thou say when he shall appoint over thee (but thou thyself hast trained them against thee) familiar friends as thy head? and, What wilt thou say when he shall appoint over thee those whom thou hast taught thy familiar friends as thy head? The rendering "familiar friends" is justified by <a href="/psalms/55-13.htm">Psalm 55:13</a>; <a href="/proverbs/16-28.htm">Proverbs 16:28</a>; <a href="/proverbs/17-9.htm">Proverbs 17:9</a>; <a href="/micah/7-5.htm">Micah 7:5</a>. The "captains" of Authorized Version, or rather "tribal chiefs," is unsuitable. <a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/13-21.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>What מַה־ (mah-) Interrogative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4100.htm">Strong's 4100: </a> What?, what!, indefinitely what will you say תֹּֽאמְרִי֙ (tō·mə·rî) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say when כִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> A relative conjunction He sets יִפְקֹ֣ד (yip̄·qōḏ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6485.htm">Strong's 6485: </a> To visit, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit over you עָלַ֔יִךְ (‘ā·la·yiḵ) Preposition | second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against close אַלֻּפִ֖ים (’al·lu·p̄îm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_441.htm">Strong's 441: </a> Familiar, a friend, gentle, a bullock, a chieftain allies לְרֹ֑אשׁ (lə·rōš) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7218.htm">Strong's 7218: </a> The head whom you וְ֠אַתְּ (wə·’at) Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_859.htm">Strong's 859: </a> Thou and thee, ye and you yourself trained? לִמַּ֨דְתְּ (lim·maḏt) Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3925.htm">Strong's 3925: </a> To exercise in, learn Will not הֲל֤וֹא (hă·lō·w) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no pangs of anguish חֲבָלִים֙ (ḥă·ḇā·lîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2256.htm">Strong's 2256: </a> A rope, a measuring line, a district, inheritance, a noose, a company, a throe, ruin grip you, יֹאחֱז֔וּךְ (yō·ḥĕ·zūḵ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_270.htm">Strong's 270: </a> To grasp, take hold, take possession as כְּמ֖וֹ (kə·mōw) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3644.htm">Strong's 3644: </a> Like, as, when they do a woman אֵ֥שֶׁת (’ê·šeṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_802.htm">Strong's 802: </a> Woman, wife, female in labor? לֵדָֽה׃ (lê·ḏāh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3205.htm">Strong's 3205: </a> To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/13-21.htm">Jeremiah 13:21 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/13-21.htm">Jeremiah 13:21 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/jeremiah/13-21.htm">Jeremiah 13:21 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/13-21.htm">Jeremiah 13:21 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/13-21.htm">Jeremiah 13:21 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/13-21.htm">Jeremiah 13:21 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/13-21.htm">Jeremiah 13:21 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/13-21.htm">Jeremiah 13:21 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/13-21.htm">Jeremiah 13:21 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/jeremiah/13-21.htm">Jeremiah 13:21 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/jeremiah/13-21.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 13:21 What will you say when he shall (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/13-20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 13:20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 13:20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/13-22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 13:22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 13:22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>