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Jeremiah 13 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:1 - Thus said the LORD to me, "Go and buy a linen waistcloth, and put it on your loins, and do not dip it in water."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:2 - So I bought a waistcloth according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:3 - And the word of the LORD came to me a second time,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:4 - "Take the waistcloth which you have bought, which is upon your loins, and arise, go to the Euphra'tes, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:5 - So I went, and hid it by the Euphra'tes, as the LORD commanded me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:6 - And after many days the LORD said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphra'tes, and take from there the waistcloth which I commanded you to hide there."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:7 - Then I went to the Euphra'tes, and dug, and I took the waistcloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the waistcloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:8 - Then the word of the LORD came to me:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:9 - "Thus says the LORD: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:10 - 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 waistcloth, which is good for nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:11 - For as the waistcloth clings to the loins of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, says the LORD, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.

Captivity Threatened

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:12 - "You shall speak to them this word: 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Every jar shall be filled with wine."' And they will say to you, 'Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:13 - Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:14 - And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, says the LORD. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:15 - Hear and give ear; be not proud, for the LORD has spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:16 - Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:17 - But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock has been taken captive.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:18 - Say to the king and the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:19 - The cities of the Negeb are shut up, with none to open them; all Judah is taken into exile, wholly taken into exile.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:20 - "Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:21 - What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Will not pangs take hold of you, like those of a woman in travail?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:22 - And if you say in your heart, 'Why have these things come upon me?' it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up, and you suffer violence.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:23 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:24 - I will scatter you like chaff driven by the wind from the desert.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:25 - This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, says the LORD, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:26 - I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:27 - I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd harlotries, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?"
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