Jeremiah 13:11

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Summary

For as the girdle cleaveth 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, saith 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.

I caused

For a name

But

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I caused

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?

And the LORD has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,

"He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.

He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!

For a name

And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.

the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.

And they shall be called The Holy People, The Redeemed of the LORD; and you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

But

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.

I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not pay attention.'

"But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.

And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,