They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
Parallel translations
- WEB They will also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.
- BSB They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry.
- 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 16:39And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
- Jer 13:22And 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.
- Ezek 23:29And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
- Isa 3:17–24Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
- Rev 18:14–17And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
- Hos 2:9–10Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.
- Ezek 16:16And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
- Ezek 16:37Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
- Hos 2:3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
- Rev 17:16And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
- 1 Pet 3:3–4Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
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