Thematic Bible
Jeremiah 13:1 (show verse)
Thus Yahweh said to me: "Go and buy for yourself a loincloth of linen and put it on your loins, but you must not {place} it in water."
Jeremiah 13:2 (show verse)
So I bought the loincloth according to the word of Yahweh and I put [it] on my loins.
Jeremiah 13:3 (show verse)
Now the word of Yahweh came to me a second [time], {saying},
Jeremiah 13:4 (show verse)
"Take the loincloth that you bought, that [is] on your loins, and stand up, go [to the] Euphrates and hide it there in the cleft of the rock."
Jeremiah 13:5 (show verse)
So I went and hid it by [the] Euphrates just as Yahweh had commanded me.
Jeremiah 13:6 (show verse)
{And then}, {after a long time}, then Yahweh said to me, "Stand up, go [to the] Euphrates and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there."
Jeremiah 13:7 (show verse)
Then I went [to the] Euphrates and I dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it, and look, the loincloth was ruined; it was not good for anything.
Jeremiah 13:8 (show verse)
{And then} the word of Yahweh came to me, {saying},
Jeremiah 13:9 (show verse)
"Thus says Yahweh: 'So I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 13:10 (show verse)
This evil people, who refuse to listen to my words, who go in the stubbornness of their hearts, and have gone after other gods, to serve them, and to bow in worship to them, let them be like this loincloth which is not good for anything.
Jeremiah 13:11 (show verse)
For as the loincloth clings to [the] loins of a person, so I caused to cling to me all the house of Israel and all the house of Judah,' {declares} Yahweh, 'to be for me a people, and a name, and a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.'
Jeremiah 13:12 (show verse)
"Therefore, you shall say to them this word, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: "Every jar must be filled with wine." ' And they will say to you, 'Do we not certainly know that every jar should be filled with wine?'
Jeremiah 13:13 (show verse)
Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Look, I [am] about to fill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings who sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem [with] drunkenness.
Jeremiah 13:14 (show verse)
And I will smash them, each one against his brother, and the fathers and the sons together," {declares} Yahweh. "I will not have compassion, and I will not take pity, and I will not show compassion from destroying them." '"
Jeremiah 13:15 (show verse)
Listen, and pay attention, you must not be haughty, for Yahweh has spoken.
Jeremiah 13:16 (show verse)
Give glory to Yahweh your God {before} he brings darkness, and {before} your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. And you will hope for light, but he makes it as gloom, he makes [it] as thick darkness.
Jeremiah 13:17 (show verse)
But if you will not listen to it, my inner self will weep in secret places, because of {the presence of} [your] pride. And my eyes will weep bitterly, and they will melt [in] tears, because the flock of Yahweh has been taken captive.
Jeremiah 13:18 (show verse)
"Say to the king and to the queen mother, '{Take a lower seat}, for {your beautiful crown} has come down from your head.'
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Jeremiah 13:19 (show verse)
The towns of the Negev are shut up, and there is no [one who] opens [them]. All of Judah is deported; it is deported [in] completeness.
Jeremiah 13:20 (show verse)
Lift up your eyes and see those coming from [the] north. Where [is] the flock that was given to you, {your magnificent flock}?
Jeremiah 13:21 (show verse)
What will you say when he sets over you-- and you have taught them--allies as head over you? Will not labor pains take hold of you, like a woman giving birth?
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Jeremiah 13:22 (show verse)
And if you say in your heart, 'Why have these [things] happened to me?' Because of the greatness of your iniquity your skirts are uncovered; your heels have endured violence.
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Jeremiah 13:23 (show verse)
Can a Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? [Then] you also will be able to do good, [who] are accustomed to doing evil.
Jeremiah 13:24 (show verse)
And I will scatter them like stubble scattered by [the] wind of [the] desert.
Jeremiah 13:25 (show verse)
This [is] your lot, the portion of your measure from me," {declares} Yahweh, "because you have forgotten me, and you have trusted in the lie.
Jeremiah 13:26 (show verse)
So in turn I will bare your skirts over your face, and your shame will become visible.
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Jeremiah 13:27 (show verse)
Your adulteries, and your neighings, the shameful behavior of your fornications on [the] hills in the countryside, I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, Jerusalem! {How long will you continue to be unclean}?"
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