They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry.
Parallel translations
- WEB They will also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.
- KJV They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
- NKJV They shall also strip you of your clothes And take away your beautiful jewelry.
- NASB They will also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewelry.
- NLT They will strip you of your beautiful clothes and jewels.
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Quick answer
The enemy will strip Judah of her clothing and fine jewels, leaving her exposed and plundered. It pictures the total loss of dignity and wealth that sin's judgment brings.
Overview
Continuing the metaphor of the unfaithful wife, God says her garments and 'beautiful jewels', symbols of the blessings He had given, will be taken away. The stripping motif echoes earlier in Ezekiel where God had clothed and adorned Jerusalem (chapter 16); now the gifts are removed. It is a sobering reminder that every good thing is a stewardship from God, not a possession to be flaunted in rebellion.
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- Ezek 16:39Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
- Jer 13:22And 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.
- Ezek 23:29They will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity
- Isa 3:17–24the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”
- Rev 18:14–17And they will say: “The fruit of your soul’s desire has departed from you; all your luxury and splendor have vanished, never to be seen again.”
- Hos 2:9–10Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.
- Ezek 16:16You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!
- Ezek 16:37therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.
- Hos 2:3Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.
- Rev 17:16And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
- 1 Pet 3:3–4Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,
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