Jeremiah 13:18
Good News Translation
The LORD said to me, "Tell the king and his mother to come down from their thrones, because their beautiful crowns have fallen from their heads.

New Revised Standard Version
Say to the king and the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head.”

Contemporary English Version
The LORD told me to tell you that your king and his mother must surrender their thrones and remove their crowns.

New American Bible
Say to the king and to the queen mother: come down from your throne; From your heads your splendid crowns will fall.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head.

unto.

Jeremiah 22:26 And I will send thee, and thy mother that bore thee, into a strange country, in which you were not born, and there you shall die:

2 Kings 24:12,15 And Joachin, king of Juda, went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his nobles, and his eunuchs: and the king of Babylon received him in the eighth year of his reign. . . .

Ezekiel 19:2 And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?

Jonah 3:6 And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.

humble.

Exodus 10:3 Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou to submit to me? let my people go, to sacrifice to me.

2 Chronicles 33:12,19,23 And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers. . . .

Matthew 18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven.

James 4:10 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord: and he will exalt you.

1 Peter 5:6 Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the time of visitation:

sit.

Isaiah 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.

Isaiah 47:1 Come down, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans, for thou shalt no more be called delicate and tender.

Lamentations 2:10 Jod. The ancients of the daughter of Sion sit upon the ground, they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust, they are girded with haircloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

principalities.

Context
Captivity Threatened
17But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive. 18Say to the king, and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head.19The cities of the south are shut up, and there is none to open them: all Juda is carried away captive with an entire captivity.…
Cross References
Exodus 39:28
And a girdle of fine twisted linen, violet, purple, and scarlet twice dyed, of embroidery work, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

2 Kings 24:12
And Joachin, king of Juda, went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his nobles, and his eunuchs: and the king of Babylon received him in the eighth year of his reign.

2 Kings 24:15
And he carried away Joachin into Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his eunuchs: and the judges of the land he carried into captivity, from Jerusalem, into Babylon.

2 Chronicles 33:12
And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers.

2 Chronicles 33:19
His prayer also, and his being heard and all his sins, and contempt, and places wherein he built high places, and set up groves, and statues before he did penance, are written in the words of Hozai.

Proverbs 27:24
For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation.

Isaiah 3:20
And bodkins, and ornaments of the legs, and tablets, and sweet balls, and earrings,

Jeremiah 22:26
And I will send thee, and thy mother that bore thee, into a strange country, in which you were not born, and there you shall die:

Jeremiah 29:2
After that Jechonias the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, and the princes of Juda, and of Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the engravers were departed out of Jerusalem:

Jeremiah 36:16
And when they had heard all the words, they looked upon one another with astonishment, and they said to Baruch: We must tell the king all these words.

Lamentations 1:6
Vau. And from the daughter of Sion, all her beauty is departed; her princes are become like rams that find no pastures; and they are gone away without strength before the face of the pursuer.

Lamentations 1:9
Teth. Her filthiness is on her feet, and she hath not remembered her end; she is wonderfully cast down, not having a comforter: behold, O Lord, my affliction, because the enemy is lifted up.

Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.

Ezekiel 16:12
And I put a jewel upon thy forehead and earrings in thy ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.

Ezekiel 21:26
Thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem, take off the crown: is it not this that hath exalted the low one, and brought down him that was high?

Ezekiel 24:17
Sigh in silence, make no mourning for the dead: let the tire of thy head be upon thee, and thy shoes on thy feet, and cover not thy face, nor eat the meat of mourners.

Ezekiel 24:23
You shall have crowns on your heads, and shoes on your feet: you shall not lament nor weep, but you shall pine away for your iniquities, and every one shall sigh with his brother.

Ezekiel 44:18
They shall have linen mitres on their heads, and linen breeches on their loins, and they shall not be girded with any thing that causeth sweat.

Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto pride, he was put down from the throne of his kingdom, and his glory was taken away.

Jeremiah 13:17
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