Jeremiah 13:22

When you say to yourselves, "Why have all these things happened to me?' It's because of the extent of your iniquity that your skirt has been lifted up, and your heels have suffered violence.

Nahum 3:5

"Look, I am against you," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "so I will pull up your dress over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations, and your disgrace to the kingdoms.

Jeremiah 5:19

When the people ask, "Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?' you are to say to them, "Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'"

Deuteronomy 7:17

"You may say to yourselves, "These nations are more numerous than we are. How can we dispossess them?'

Isaiah 3:17

therefore the LORD will afflict sores on the heads of Zion's women, and the LORD will expose their private parts.

Jeremiah 2:17-19

You have done this to yourselves, have you not, by forsaking the LORD your God, when he is the one who led you on the way?

Jeremiah 9:2-9

Oh, that I had a lodging place for travelers in the desert, so that I could leave my people and go away from them. For all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.

Jeremiah 13:26

I'll also pull your skirt up over your face, so your shame will be seen,

Jeremiah 16:10-11

"When you speak all these words to this people, they'll say to you, "Why has the LORD pronounced all this disaster against us? What is our iniquity, and what is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?'

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem sinned greatly, and she became unclean. All who honored her now despise her, because they saw her naked. She herself groans and turns her face away.

Hosea 2:10

So now I'll reveal her lewdness to the eyes of her lovers, and no man will rescue her from my control.

Deuteronomy 8:17

You may say to yourselves, "I have become wealthy by my own strength and by my own ability.'

Deuteronomy 18:21

Now you may ask yourselves, "How will we be able to discern that the LORD has not spoken?'

Isaiah 20:4

so the king of Assyria will lead away the Egyptian captives and exiles from Cush, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot with even their buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 47:2-3

Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off your robes, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers.

Isaiah 47:8

"Now hear this, you wanton creature, lounging with no cares, and saying to herself: "I am the one, and there will be none besides me; I won't live as a widow, nor will I see the loss of children.'

Ezekiel 16:37-39

therefore, watch out! I'm about to gather all your lovers from whom you've received your pleasure, everyone whom you've loved, and those whom you've hated. I'll gather them together to oppose you from every side, and they'll uncover your nakedness in their presence. Then they'll see you completely naked.

Ezekiel 23:27-29

That's how I'll put an end to your obscene conduct and sexual immorality that you kept on practicing since the day you left the land of Egypt so that you won't look in Egypt's direction or even remember it anymore.'

Hosea 2:3

Otherwise, I'll strip her naked as she was on the day she was born make her like a wilderness, turn her into a parched land, and cause her to die of thirst.

Hosea 12:8

Ephraim claims, "I have become rich, I have made a fortune! Because of all my wealth, no one will find any iniquity or sin in me.'

Zephaniah 1:12

And it will come about that I will search Jerusalem with candles, punishing the self-satisfied and complacent, who say to themselves, "The LORD will do neither good nor evil.'

Luke 5:21-22

The scribes and the Pharisees began to argue among themselves, saying, "Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

If

Deuteronomy 7:17
"You may say to yourselves, "These nations are more numerous than we are. How can we dispossess them?'
Deuteronomy 8:17
You may say to yourselves, "I have become wealthy by my own strength and by my own ability.'
Deuteronomy 18:21
Now you may ask yourselves, "How will we be able to discern that the LORD has not spoken?'
Isaiah 47:8
"Now hear this, you wanton creature, lounging with no cares, and saying to herself: "I am the one, and there will be none besides me; I won't live as a widow, nor will I see the loss of children.'
Zephaniah 1:12
And it will come about that I will search Jerusalem with candles, punishing the self-satisfied and complacent, who say to themselves, "The LORD will do neither good nor evil.'
Luke 5:21
The scribes and the Pharisees began to argue among themselves, saying, "Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Wherefore

Jeremiah 5:19
When the people ask, "Why has the LORD our God done all this to us?' you are to say to them, "Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'"
Jeremiah 16:10
"When you speak all these words to this people, they'll say to you, "Why has the LORD pronounced all this disaster against us? What is our iniquity, and what is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?'

The greatness

Jeremiah 2:17
You have done this to yourselves, have you not, by forsaking the LORD your God, when he is the one who led you on the way?
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh, that I had a lodging place for travelers in the desert, so that I could leave my people and go away from them. For all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.
Hosea 12:8
Ephraim claims, "I have become rich, I have made a fortune! Because of all my wealth, no one will find any iniquity or sin in me.'

Skirts

Jeremiah 13:26
I'll also pull your skirt up over your face, so your shame will be seen,
Isaiah 3:17
therefore the LORD will afflict sores on the heads of Zion's women, and the LORD will expose their private parts.
Isaiah 20:4
so the king of Assyria will lead away the Egyptian captives and exiles from Cush, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot with even their buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt.
Isaiah 47:2
Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off your robes, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers.
Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem sinned greatly, and she became unclean. All who honored her now despise her, because they saw her naked. She herself groans and turns her face away.
Ezekiel 16:37
therefore, watch out! I'm about to gather all your lovers from whom you've received your pleasure, everyone whom you've loved, and those whom you've hated. I'll gather them together to oppose you from every side, and they'll uncover your nakedness in their presence. Then they'll see you completely naked.
Ezekiel 23:27
That's how I'll put an end to your obscene conduct and sexual immorality that you kept on practicing since the day you left the land of Egypt so that you won't look in Egypt's direction or even remember it anymore.'
Hosea 2:3
Otherwise, I'll strip her naked as she was on the day she was born make her like a wilderness, turn her into a parched land, and cause her to die of thirst.
Nahum 3:5
"Look, I am against you," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "so I will pull up your dress over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations, and your disgrace to the kingdoms.

General references

Isaiah 66:21
Then I will also select some of them for myself as priests and as Levites," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 13:26
I'll also pull your skirt up over your face, so your shame will be seen,
Ezekiel 16:37
therefore, watch out! I'm about to gather all your lovers from whom you've received your pleasure, everyone whom you've loved, and those whom you've hated. I'll gather them together to oppose you from every side, and they'll uncover your nakedness in their presence. Then they'll see you completely naked.

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