Jeremiah 13:22
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.
Cross-reference
Jeremiah 13:26 repeats the image of lifting skirts to expose shame, reinforcing the metaphor of public humiliation.
Jeremiah 2:17-19 states that their own apostasy brought this upon them, reinforcing the self-inflicted cause.
In Jeremiah 5:19, the same question-and-answer pattern appears: exile comes because they served foreign gods.
Jeremiah 16:10 records the people asking why judgment has come, mirroring the question here.
Jeremiah 16:11 gives the explicit answer: forsaking God and worshiping other gods — the iniquity behind the judgment.
Jeremiah 9:2-9 details the specific sins — adultery, lying, oppression — that constitute the 'great iniquity' here.
Lamentations 1:8 explicitly states that Jerusalem's sin caused her nakedness to be seen, mirroring the shame described here.
Nahum 3:5 uses the identical phrase 'lift up your skirts' for Nineveh's shame, showing this divine judgment is repeated against other nations.
Hosea 2:10 describes uncovering lewdness in front of lovers, directly paralleling the exposure in Jeremiah 13:22.
Hosea 2:3 threatens to strip Israel naked, using the same metaphor of exposure as judgment for unfaithfulness.
Ezekiel 23:27-29 continues the imagery with Oholibah's nakedness exposed by her lovers, reinforcing the theme of shameful exposure.
Ezekiel 16:37-39 uses the same metaphor of stripping a faithless wife publicly, illustrating the covenantal shame of Jerusalem.
In Isaiah 47:3, the same image of uncovered nakedness is used to describe Babylon's shame, showing this judgment applies to other nations as well.
Isaiah 47:2-3 uses the same stripping-and-exposure imagery for Babylon, linking judgment to public shame.
Ezekiel 16:36 also uses the imagery of uncovering nakedness as punishment for Jerusalem's prostitution, echoing the same shame of exposed skirts.
Ezekiel 23:26 describes stripping garments as judgment, matching the lifting of skirts in the main verse as a sign of shame.
Isaiah 3:17 uses similar imagery: God laying bare women's secret parts as judgment for pride, echoing the same shame.
Isaiah 20:4 describes captives led naked with buttocks uncovered, a literal parallel to the exposure imagery here.
In Hosea 12:8, Ephraim boasts of innocence, contrasting with the divine declaration of great iniquity here.
Micah 1:11 depicts inhabitants passing in nakedness and shame, a similar motif of public exposure for sin.