Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 13:22
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Jeremiah13:22
22 And if thou say in thine heart wherefore come these things upon me? for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare .
Hypocrites will rarely confess their own shame and Gods righteousness, but are ready to expostulate and dispute with God, and to call him to account why he hath dealt so with them, as if God had dealt unjustly. But (saith God) if thou shouldst have any such thoughts in thine heart do but remember thine iniquities, how many and how great they have been, thy nakedness is discovered because of these, and for these thou art exposed to contempt and shame; probably these phrases are fetched from the usual practice of Souldiers when they have conquered a place and taken Prisoners to strip them, and leave those of either sex, either no clothes to cover their nakedness or nothing but their own rags, not sufficient to cover their nakedness. By skirts is meant the lower part of their bodies covered with the lower part of their garments.
Marginal references: chap. 5.19. & 16.10.; Nahum 3 5.; Or, shall be violently taken away.
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