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JEREMIAH ยท Chapter 13
13:1 Thus says the LORD unto me, Go and get you a linen girdle, and
put it upon your loins, and put it not in water.
13:2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it
on my loins.
13:3 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
13:4 Take the girdle that you have got, which is upon your loins, and
arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
13:5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
13:6 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me,
Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded
you to hide there.
13:7 Then I went to Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle from the
place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was ruined, it was profitable
for nothing.
13:8 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
13:9 Thus says the LORD, After this manner will I ruin the pride of
Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
13:10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in
the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them,
and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
13:11 For as the girdle cleaves to the loins of a man, so have I caused
to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah,
says the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name,
and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
13:12 Therefore you shall speak unto them this word; Thus says the
LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall
say unto you, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled
with wine?
13:13 Then shall you say unto them, Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will
fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's
throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
with drunkenness.
13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and
the sons together, says the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have
mercy, but destroy them.
13:15 Hear all of you, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD has
spoken.
13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and
before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while all of you
look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross
darkness.
13:17 But if all of you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret
places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with
tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive.
13:18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down:
for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
13:19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open
them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly
carried away captive.
13:20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north:
where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?
13:21 What will you say when he shall punish you? for you have taught
them to be captains, and as chief over you: shall not sorrows take you,
as a woman in travail?
13:22 And if you say in your heart, Wherefore come these things upon
me? For the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts discovered,
and your heels made bare.
13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
then may all of you also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
13:24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passes away
by the wind of the wilderness.
13:25 This is your lot, the portion of your measures from me, says
the LORD; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
13:26 Therefore will I discover your skirts upon your face, that your
shame may appear.
13:27 I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness
of your whoredom, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe
unto you, O Jerusalem! will you not be made clean? when shall it once be?
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